Reah’s Crib

Check it out now in www.reddit.com so you won’t miss the fun. But if you want to use the original Reddit layout, you can go to http://classic.reddit.com/.

Blogging is the most in thing now, and if you still haven’t into it, then maybe you can start your own inside your own Friendster Account. Here are the easy steps:

1. Log into your Friendster account

2. Look on the upper left corner, on the navigation tabs. Near the link for Home, is Profile. Move your mouse over the Profile link, and choose Blogs. 

3. Once you are in the new page, you are ready to create your new blog. Just type in any name for your new blog, and click the Create a blog button.

4. If you have successfully create your blog, Friendster will direct you to the blog dashboard. 

5. Study the features, choose a theme, and once you are ready, write your first post.

Good luck!

SInce Friendster is now using the WordPress Blogging Platform, deleting your blog here will also be the same as deleting a WordPress.com blog. (If you want to make a back-up first before you delete your blog. I will show you on the next tutorial. So, I think, don’t delete your blog yet.)

If you want your blog to be removed from Friendster, here’s how you do it.

1. Log in to your Friendster account of course.

2. On My Tools, there is a drop down arrow that says More, just below the Edit Profile link.

3. From the drop down arrow, click Update Blog. It will direct you to the wordpress software inside friendster.com

4. Look for Settings link. At the left side, you see the links Write, Manage, Design, and Comments. But the link you need to click is not on that side, but on the opposite side. Uhm… I mean the right side of course. You will see there the less visible links which are Settings, Plugins, Users. Now you found the Settings link, so click on that.

5. On the settings page, just right after General, you will find these links: Writing, Reading, Discussion, Privacy, Permalinks, Miscellaneous, Delete Blog. Click Delete Blog link.

6. On the Delete Blog page, you will receive this message:

If you do not want to use your Friendster Blogs blog any more, you can delete it using the form below. When you click Delete My Blog you will be sent an email with a link in it. Click on this link to delete your blog.

Remember, once deleted your blog cannot be restored.

7. Check the box that you are agreeing to the statement: 

I’m sure I want to permanently disable my blog, and I am aware I can never get it back or use xxxxxxxxx.blog.friendster.com again. Then click the Delete Blog button.

8. You are not yet done Log-in to your email address to click the confirmation link. Your blog will not be deleted unless you have clicked this link from your email.

9. Now that you have received the email from Friendster, and you are sure about deleting your blog. Then click the confirmation link. Make sure your pop-up blocker is temporarily allowed, or on.

I reformat my computer yesterday since it started to run slow. And it was only now that I have realized that I lost all my bookmarks… my my my. Most of my bookmarks were in Google Chrome, I wish Google had thought of automatically adding the bookmarks in the account’s “Google Bookmark” page but unfortunately there’s no feature like that. I have saved a lot and now they’re gone… This is the time that you will really appreciate maintaining a an account in Delicious.com

I just created today another Twitter account for a website, and when I was started following tweets, I noticed some pop-up windows on some accounts saying that their account wer suspended due to strange activity. At first, I was ignoring this pop-up but it made me curious. I really have not use Twitter for a long time, and wondered if my other Twitter accounts got suspended as well, but upon checking they weren’t.

So what’s the reason they got suspended? I want to know so I will avoid whatever strange activity these people are doing. I found an article that itemized the reasons below, I don’t want to link back to that article to avoid embarassing the guy who got suspended in Twitter. Anyway, some personnel from Twitter posted the reasons why an account could be suspended.

• following a large number of people in a short amount of time
• a small number of followers compared to number of people you’re following
• updates consist mainly of links and not personal updates
• large number of people blocking the profile and writing in with spam complaints

I am glad Twitter has this sort of policy to discourage people on over-using Twitter for just link-building purposes, without taking consideration that this is a social media site, where people wants to communicate, to connect to people they know.

For me to know if I am guilty of any strange activity, I answered the following questions.

1. Do I follow a large number of people in a short time? Well, I manage my Twitter accounts manually, and hitting the follow button every few seconds turns to be a boring activity in a while. And besides I really don’t care about following a lot of people since I don’t update much often, although I found out that reading their tweets amusing and informative at some times. What matters to me is, if I do have more followers than the number of people I am following.
2. So, do I have more followers? People may follow me because they just pushed the follow button from someone else, but I do hope though that some of them follow me because they think my tweets are interesting or amusing. Tweeting is like posting blog articles, if your posts aren’t interesting people won’t appreciate it. Isn’t it more exciting if you see more people following you?
3. What are my tweets composed of? My tweets are composed of both. I have links, and I have personal tweets. Though I have Twitter accounts for link building purposes, I really don’t just posts links there as if it is an extension of my blog’s RSS feed. It annoys me seeing my alias profile full with links, it degrades the credibility of the blog. Aside from sharing links, I usually write some quick thoughts of current issues, or whatever I feel like saying that time, even if the account is under an alias. It just adds human touch to the account, and appear to be more social than just sharing links.
4. Are there people blocking me? No.

In short, all I have to keep in mind to keep my Twitter account active is just to make sure I tweet responsibly.

I am not really a fan of Google Lively. So seeing Lively shutdown at the end of the year is not a surprise to me. I believe internet users are still not ready on such an idea, to just be in a 3D room to chat, and nothing else to do is boring and a waste of time, however you customize the room. 

I love the new dashboard, it looks more organized, and to think that I can customize it as well. Aside from that, there’s a quickpress that enables you to post an article from your dashboard, and reply to comments as an admin. I would surely love answering my user visitors now in my other blogs. Wordpress really rocks! I can’t wait to upgrade when 2.7 will be released soon.

Someone chatted with me in Gmail requesting to stumble his great article, and I was eager to do it anyway, so I opened Firefox, since I was using Gmail in Chrome. Surprisingly, Stumbleupon toolbar was gone! I doublechecked View > Toolbars, but Stumbleupon is not listed there. If I checked Tools > Add-ons, Stumbleupon is still installed and just not showing. (I wasn’t able to stumble the post.)

So, I reload Firefox, thinking it was the problem, but it got worse, the window seemed to have its code messed up, so I decided to re-install Firefox. But stumbleupon toolbar was still nowhere to find. So, i thought maybe SU’s code messed up, so I uninstalled and re-installed it, but still it did not fix the problem.

There’s one thing different in my Firefox though when I lost my SU toolbar. Firefox’s homepage was Bearshare, and there was on my add-ons’ list. (I wasn’t able to take a screenshot, but swear, it’s there.)

I believed my brother installed it since he was the one who always use Firefox (I always use Google Chrome lately). So, I uninstalled Bearshare add-on, and amazingly, Stumbleupon Toolbar showed up. Cool!

Google knows what we have been searching everyday, and they post the monthly top queries of every country through Google Zeitgeist. Here are the top 15 queries of on Google Philippines for February 2008.

1. frank iero – (band member of My Chemical Romance)

2. fitrum – (dietary supplement)

3. devil naruto – (anime character)

4. will devaughn – (local celebrity)

5. ford philippines

6. kakuzu – (anime)

7. volkswagen

8. adobe acrobat

9. slam dunk anime

10. meralco foundation – (technological institute)

11. emo lover

12. aya natsume – (anime character)

13. presidente ng pilipinas – (president of the philippines)

14. pisces

15. computer hardware