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July 12th, 2008

Google Lively Does Not Make Me Lively

I like to think I’m an okay gamer. I’ve been playing video games since the Atari 2600, so I can move fairly well within virtual worlds. I can Crippling Slash enemy monks in Guild Wars just as well as I can hoverboard with friendly girls in There.
Maybe that’s why my expectations of Google Lively might […]

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

July 26th, 2007

More Pownce Invitations! API Coming Soon!

The bad news is that I’ve given away my first batch of six invitations to Digg founder Kevin Rose’s flexible yet elegant new IM service, Pownce. The good news is that I just got six more. If you want an invitation, post a comment here with your email address. First come, first served.
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By Mike Abundo -- 9 comments

July 12th, 2007

Pownce Invitations!

I’m giving away six invitations to Digg founder Kevin Rose’s new IM service, Pownce. Think Twitter on steroids: you can send text, links, files, and events to the whole world, all your friends, groups of your friends, or any one of your friends. Jeremiah Owyang has a great collection of reviews here.
If you want an […]

By Mike Abundo -- 9 comments

December 20th, 2006

Google Talk Follow-up

I’ve continued troubleshooting and determined that my errors with Google Talk embedded in Gmail may be exclusively tied to IE7. I opened Gmail in Firefox and everything worked fine.
I’ve gone through security settings and add-ons to see if anything was being blocked and didn’t see anything that I’m aware of specifically.
Anyone have any ideas (other […]

By Jason -- 1 comment

December 19th, 2006

Google Talk Embedded in Gmail Difficulties

Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
I’ve been getting this error now for almost a week. I’ve talked to other friends that are using Google Talk embedded in Gmail and they aren’t experiencing the same issues?
Trying to figure out of it’s just me or my computer. Don’t think so since it’s happening on both my personal […]

By Jason -- 5 comments

December 6th, 2006

Google to Purchase Plaxo

I’m a Plaxo user and I love the service. I was hesitant at first, but a friend of mine kept hounding me about how great the service was and that they weren’t out to just harvest e-mail addresses for spammers.
Colbert Low has an interesting post at Profy.com about the possibility of Google purchasing Plaxo. Although […]

By Jason -- 1 comment

November 1st, 2006

AOL Mail Still a Spam Magnet

Why is it that AOL mail, or specifically my AIM mail account, continues to be a spam magnet? I don’t provide my e-mail address for this account to anyone, I never include it on web forms or on web pages. 3 of 5 messages from my account above are sent specifically to my AOL/AIM address, […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

October 25th, 2006

Yahoo Bookmarks Quick Review

A quick thought on the new Yahoo Toolbar with bookmarks feature. Overall I really like the idea and it’s a very clean and smooth design.
My only problem is all my bookmarks that weren’t already in a specific folder have gone bye-bye somewhere.
All of my bookmarks highlighted over there in the screen grab are completely missing […]

By Jason -- 1 comment

October 25th, 2006

AOL OpenRide

If you remember, I was regularly posting back towards the end of AOL as we know it, that I thought the changes they were making were exactly what they needed to do.
It looks like AOL’s “OpenRide” software is coming together nicely. Has anyone used it?
Let me know.
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By Jason -- 2 comments

October 16th, 2006

Google Advertising GTalk

Is there anyone that uses Gmail that’s not aware of GTalk? Are you using Gmail?
Would you rather also have GTalk running as a separate application, or do you like just using it embedded within Gmail? I prefer having it embedded instead of having a separate application running in my task tray.
Actually my IM preference is […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

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