After a long time period that I haven't used this blog site, I decided to turn this to a news site of tech talk and anything that goes, as my own even personal blog posting of different things to come.
Being a blog poster on other web sites was always a passion I had, especially posting on Facebook latest new stories and of course my own opinions on everything I posted, was felt to me was going to waste by some part of Facebook's policy and other means as well. After seeing the new social network of Google+ and the uprising of comments of people on that new network, postings and more where coming to life. As a WordPress fan I stud up to the challenge to stay and post and make my statement come to life by saying "Yes, there is still life in posting even with or without Facebook". Somehow I felt alive and that is why I came back here to post my favorite stories.
Web site building and developing was a great fascination I had ever since 1997, when I first started on my first web site. I had to learn more and not just HTML, but by buying L.A.M.P for dummies started me of to love the CMS world and noticing there was more to know still. I got my self started on Joomla and then on when I saw an easy piece of tech was when I fell in love with WordPress. The day after still got me going, addons and plugins hacks on these to make my own or even write some from scratch, let me on the loose to get more an understanding how things worked.
Image via CrunchBaseSocial networks where another passion of a later date, where one day a friend send me an invite to see this web site to join was my first experience with a social-like network called HI5. Although at first I wasn't very excited thinking that this was just another web site, but when I noticed the add friends I thought I'll give it a try. So, I liked it for a while, but then things got a little out of hand and of course got boring especially with SPAM. Something that most of us hate to see their emails and comments getting spammed by some companies that wanted attention of their products or just annoying people. So, after a year or two at the most the interest I had with HI5 died.
Image via CrunchBaseSome idea after a period of time some neighbor and friend of mine at the time, told me of this wonderful web site where you can have friends and music. Music I thought sounds better than just friends, so seen it was a nice experience called Myspace. So, my default friend was Tom (Tom Anderson). Not much was going on there on Myspace, but for friends I had the experience to meet a lot of singers, groups and others, where at the same time I already had made a web site for a hobby I had with some friends of mine called Super Club Radio, where we first established it back in 2006 on the end of summer that year. So, thoughtfully a good idea to track down and talk to music bands to get "social". Aah! Yes! Myspace was like it, but lagged some interaction like a real time chat. That didn't really matter for me at that time, cos I was on msn messenger and I could just tell them to come for a live chat there. Of course getting to know the sneaky business of Microsoft's ads on MSN Messenger and the change of privacy policy of their software, got me angry and I had to leave their messenger software, where friends keep telling me to come back. "No, never" was my answer cos of some stupid ridiculousness of a company policy I wasn't and didn't feel safe.
Image via CrunchBaseIn 2005 Autumn another neighbor told me about this site made by a student from Harvard that had this idea of friends of a social network. I was oh, I better try it out. Though wasn't very excited again, it had too little to offer, but later when I saw the beauty of it my life changed dramatically. Facebook was the new Myspace, where Myspace as I said lagged a lot of features. There I was testing out every new feature got me going and visiting often the developer team site of Facebook. Of course it was called "The Facebook" at the time of using it, till a short time later the letters got better by loosing the "THE" in Facebook. Somehow everything looked good for a time and getting better every time, when suddenly some companies and stuff began to rise and change the way as we know it today with privacy issues and people not able to trust it. More on this I'll explain on another post. Then again where things get better, it get worse on another way and that is privacy policy. I still use as much Myspace and Facebook, but my other love came to hand over something unexpectedly and excitingly new technology, called Google+!
Image via CrunchBaseGoogle had when it first started of in 1998, I got to know of them by some guy I met on IRC that told me about them. It was a new search engine that started of. I was at first "What? another of these search engine companies again?" notice at the time there where a lot of search engines, but not so unique as at that time was top search giant of Yahoo! Then again I said "I'll try it" and just before I knew it I was using Google in no time as my default search engine. The great news arrived just after 2000, the hit on the new century began a few years later in their works was some little projects raised from the ashes, when a greater project came out as a beta test (stayed for a few years as a beta) was called Gmail also known as Google Mail as the long term. Gmail was a beautiful and excited to get an invite by Google as a free 1 GByte space! Wow, at the time people where trying to get it as much as possible an invite. Yes, I was pleased! Some years later I saw this post from a newspaper or magazine that Google started a project called "Summer of Code". Now this was getting more and more exciting for me, where new code appeared nearly from "nowhere" to and exciting project. Each student was submitting code for their projects they did. I still follow A LOT of them. Based on this Google made their SDK called GWT (Google Web Toolkit) used in many new projects especially for creating Android and many others. The world of Google began and grew to become a "Giant of Search Engines". No matter if Yahoo joined forces with Microsoft to make Bing, this didn't hurt at all Google. Did Bing get any closer to what Google managed? Nowhere near! A few month a go I heard about some new product called Google One, something to do with an alternative to Facebook project, but was aimed for the search engine as a button as I found out later on. An experiment from Google to test out the button of course was renamed from Google One to Google + or Google Plus. Now we are getting somewhere I said. This was just the beginning of things to come. Is there going to be a social network from Google? Yes, it was in the works after the abandoned and not so well known to get there project they had last year (2010) that was going to be a success project called Google Wave. Some how now found a new home and re-established a new project combined with Google's failure of Google Wave with the new excited new social network now called "Google+" (Google Plus).
Image by Bruce Clay, Inc via FlickrGoogle Plus now hits the stand where Facebook took them 780 days to reach an amount of 10 million users, where as Google hit their trial mode network and (still at the time of writing is in test version) hit 10 million in just 16 days of use. As far as I know this is over 25 million and growing. As of a update to this post I got to learn their releasing their social network to the public in mid-September. I was excited more than I have ever imagined. This is a network I REALLY fell in love with. Every post that others are doing (where Facebook lagged to make) are in real time. Just like you where testing Google Wave in a way, but better. Things are about to change and the most better part? YOUR PRIVACY belongs to you and only. Rules of Google+ are simple and yet are going to be better. I will explain in detail on what's new to this wondrous social network. For now if anyone wants an invite let me know, by sending your email or Gmail i'll send you the invite link, just ask kindly and you will be supplied with the link. Tell of your friends that this network DOES NOT even have ADS. So, NO ADS is a better network and excited to use Hangouts (this is the video chat from Google plus). More to say about this soon.
