Larry Hosken: New: Tag: social-networks

I'm @lahosken on the Spill social app. Several days back, I got word that Spill, previously iOS-only, released an Android beta test. So I installed and tried to sign up, but sign-ups didn't work…maybe because a bazillion Android users were all trying to sign up at the same time? Anyhow, I thought to try again today and it worked! If I know you and you're on Spill, I'm (predictably) @lahosken. And if you tried to get on Spill but it never sent you a login code thingy, you might try again today; I bet it works for you today.

Updated Contact Info I updated the Larry Hosken Contact Info page to reflect: The social network formerly known as t2 is now pebble. https://pebble.is/lahosken is me. ...

As Twitter X continues to implode, I am now @lahosken on the t2 social network. It's early days there yet; as near as I can tell, there's not a whole lot happening. But I don't see everything. I...

As Twitter continues to implode, I have set up yet another social account, this one on Bluesky: @lahosken.bsky.social. If you're on Bluesky and you'd like to follow me, as of today, you can. I...

If you're still on Twitter and been thinking, "I'll move over to Mastodon eventually; and when I do there are automatic tools that will help my Twitter-followers follow my new account," then you want...

Oh, you can block users on post.news now. (Maybe this has been true for a while? I don't check there very often.) Just go to the creepy user's profile page, open up the little menu, and there's a Blo...

J M dot O As Twitter continues to implode, it's preventing folks from posting their Mastodon addresses. Thus, if you're looking to move from Twitter to Mastodon, you might not know where your friends are, or h...

As Twitter continues to implode, people move from Twitter to Mastodon. If you're moving from Twitter to Mastodon, there are tools that look over the list of accounts you follow on Twitter, finds thei...

If you're on tumblr and I know you and I don't already follow you, let me know so I can follow you. Or you can follow me. Or whatever. As Twitter continues to implode, I noticed some artistic types ...

I have set up an account on the social network post.news. If you're also on post.news, let me know so I can follow you. If you're not already there, I'm not necessarily encouraging you to join right ...

Some Twitter executives resigned last night; specifically execs who make sure that users' private information stays private. So, long story short, I deleted my Twitter account. Short story long: ...

All the cool kids are downloading their Twitter data lest the amazingly-even-less-competent new leadership breaks everything. So I downloaded my Twitter data. I have more than 700 thousand ...

I joined a couple more social networks, WT.social and cohost. I guess when E1on Mսsk threatened to buy Twitter, people started looking for places to go next. Thus, new socials popped up on my RADAR. ...

Book Report: The Dark Net [Content warning: oh gee whiz, the book has just about all of them.] This book is a survey of sketchy places on the internet… and it gets pretty darned sketchy. Some of it is mostly harmless...

Book Report: How to Do Nothing In How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell exhorts us to occasionally look up from social networks and instead look around at the places and people around us. These days, at least here in the SF Bay Area, thi...

Who wants in on a poetry pyramid scheme? You invest one poem, get up to 400 back. Let me know. I'll need your email address. ...

OK, USA politics is still pretty bad… But without its inspiration, I couldn't have attained this 50K-long Twitter block list, so that's something. ...

Facebook changed its rules, and thus my blog posts can no longer automatically appear on Facebook. So… if you've been using FB to keep up with the books I read or trash-picking adventures or w...

Book Report: It's Complicated It's about teenagers using social networking sites… Speaking of social networks, I'm lahosken@mastodon.social on Mastodon. What? What was I talking about? Right, the book It's Complicated. It...

Dave Litwin is doing OK Ex-Geoworks folks might be interested to know that I bumped into Dave Litwin on SF's Embarcadero today. He works around there; Autodesk has some Maker-y 3D-Printing-ish development at a pier building...

I'm kind of embarrassed about how long it took me to install Signal. I assumed it would take a while to set up. It's a security app written by security people. Surely there would be questions I didn'...

I'm liking Signal, a text-messaging app. It was darned easy to set up. I replaced my phone's built-in text messaging app with Signal. Now when I text another Signal user, Signal encrypts the message ...

posted my kloak contact info I posted my kloak QR code with the rest of my contact information. I mailed that QR code to a bunch of folks. But when I was looking for lists of people to mail it to, I used social networks. So I di...

You can "friend" someone on Kloak without meeting them f2f. I thought the only way to "friend" someone on Kloak was to meet and scan each others' phones. But Egnor played with the app enough to figure out it's got UI to use other means, e.g., email. That's n...

kloak looks interesting Kloak is a social network in which your friends can see what you're up to, even though the folks running the service can't. To "friend" someone, you meet them in person and each use the app to scan t...

Book Report: Livesaving Lessons This book by swordfisherwoman Linda Greenlaw is different—it's about adopting a teenager. This feels like higher stakes than life-or-death actions out on the water: Greenlaw and her daughter ha...

LJ People: Do Not Be Alarmed On LiveJournal, I have a new account, lahoskensf. And I'm going to friend you and you and you and you… Why a new account, you ask? My lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us account was OpenID-based, ba...

The friendfeed social networking site is going away. My best experience on a public social network was a few months on friendfeed. But that was years ago, before they got acquired by Facebook and fol...

Book Report: Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails How the electric telegraph affected the course of the USA's Civil War. Historically, generals had a lot of leeway: whoever was in command out in the field made decisions out in the field. You wouldn'...

Do Not Be Alarmed I'm trying out a new way of syndicating my blog posts to Twitter and Facebook. Maybe everything will go smoothly. Or maybe I'm about to start spewing FB updates and tweets like an absurdly literate f...

I'm lahosken on ello.co I joined that social network ello.co. https://ello.co/lahosken, that's me. If you're on there and we know each other, we should "follow" each other. Or whatever it's called on this thing. If you fol...

Book Report: Things a Little Bird Told Me It's an autobiography by Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, co-founder of Jelly. At the start, it talks about crazy risks he took. Some of which, in hindsight, still seem pretty risky… Some of ...

Book Report: The Reputation Society I'm not game control for every game out there. E.g., I'm not on Game Control for this game; I was just passing along word of its existence after I saw it mentioned on a flyer. But I can see why you m...

I dropped my phone, fumbled it while carrying a vegi-sushi burrito from the @we2sushi food cart and tweeting a photo. I make fun of hipsters a lot, but I grant them some respect: their habits require...

Human flesh search engine comes to San Francisco. I am impressed; it helps when the target posts to Facebook. ...

Closed my LinkedIn Account Happy Labor Day. Last week, one of my ex-coworkers pointed out that I hadn't gotten around to updating my LinkedIn profile to reflect my new job. And I thought "Why would I update my profile on that ...

Milestone: 21 Million Hits It's the site's 21 millionth hit! (As usual, this isn't as impressive a number as you might think at first: these "hits" include, e.g., one for each graphic on each page loaded, visits from search-en...

Joined goodreads I joined goodreads, yet another site that recommends books to read based upon books that you liked. It's been around for a while, but I didn't join. Amazon.com's recommendations were fine! But then A...

If you're in Google Plus and want to encircle me, I am lahosken [at] gmail [dot] com. Not much stuff of mine will show up there any time soon; I couldn't find a way to import my blog posts there yet...

I created an about.me profile. I'd heard about about.me, wondered what the fuss was about, so I tried it. Now I've tried it and... I still wonder what the fuss was about. So now I have yet another p...

Fake BBC Book Meme I got tagged on Facebook to fill in the fake "BBC Book Meme". (It's a real meme, just not really from the BBC.) The key... x: I read it; x+: I read it and loved it; * I plan to read it; =8 tied for ...

San Francisco Restaurant Recommendations This morning, instead of doing what I meant to do, I bumped into Google Hotpot and rated a bunch of places (mostly restaurants in San Francisco). It's a "social" service, so in theory I can share re...

Book Report: Gimme Something Better This book was interesting, a lot more interesting than I expected. After all, I'm not a punk. I didn't grow up a punk. So why would I read—brace yourself—an oral history of the SF bay ar...

Kindle Thoughts I tweeted Reviewed an early-draft novel via Kindle. It worked well for that. Search was handy. Highlighted lines of interest. Over on Facebook, my cousin Sierra asked some questions about that. And ...

Book Report: Design for Community It's Derek Powazek's 2002 book about making web sites that work well for communities. There were examples of things that worked well, things that didn't. A lot of this material is stuff you get to ...

Link: How to stop leaking private info each time a FB friend takes a personality quiz A while back, I started looking at FB app coding, and was thusly creeped out. When someone writes a Facebook app, e.g., one of those What sandwich condiment are you?!? quizzes, they can tell that app...

Rerun, sort of: 25 random things meme [A few months back, I posted a note on Facebook. It went a little something like this.] How it is supposed to work....but don't feel obligated: once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a ...

Misapplying Google Friend Connect I put a couple of "Google Friend Connect" gadgets on the site. These are little web gadgets that allow you to register your interest in the site and to leave comments on a wall. (That's "wall" in th...

Link: Ghost Patrol Forums, Sort of Meat Machine (well, the Bay Area team by that name) set up a "Ghost Capturing" part of their Ghost Patrol application: a social network for ghosts (and ghost sympathizers. I joined, but have encount...

David Hill on Hypotheses and Blurting David Hill replied to yesterday's blog post on hypotheses in puzzle-solving. He replied on Facebook, so you probably didn't see it. I'll post his reply here. I have a couple of reasons for wanting...

Site Update: Contact, more XFN than you can stand I've been marking my internet territory. That is to say, I've been federating my identity. That is to say, I added more rel="me" links to the Larry Hosken contact page. Do you remember my ramble a...

Site Update: I'm on Twitter. (Are you?) I signed up for Twitter. Yes, you can now get updates about my status much more often than you want to. You can see my Twitter status if you visit this blog's front page; if you resourcefully follo...

Puzzlehunts are Everywhere: Save the Burninators In case you're wondering why my Facebook Status says "Save the Burninators", I just finished an IM conversation with Ian Tullis. He says that most of the Burninators headed into San Francisco this m...

Site Update: Contact, Links I updated the site's Contact and Links pages. A few months back, Gavin Bell gave a talk at work. He mentioned in passing how various folks are using hCard to say "this web page is about a perso...

Quechup: Do NOT trust them with your address book Quechup is a new spam site disguised as a social network. When you join up, they ask for your address book. Then they send invite emails to every address in your address book. If you receive a Quech...

Site Update: Fixed a Photo A little script runs over this website's visit logs each night, generating a pretty report. I think I wrote the original back in 1999. I rewrote it last night. Python instead of Perl now. Sorted ...

Link: Web Entrepeneurs in Full Color Video Can a two-person start-up tell Google how to grow a great user-centered web service? Yes, yes they can. Chuck and Gaurav, the brains behind BillMonk, the social money network web site thingy, came to...