The Future of Facebook

So, I was on my way to Meijer with my brother this afternoon, and somehow the topic of Facebook came up. He said that he didn't believe that FB would continue to thrive as the forefront of social networking because of it's privacy issues. As I think about the subject a little more I tend to agree. I have found myself very frustrated with Facebook lately but for other reasons, I feel that it has become way to over-saturated with things to do. If I can make a simple comparison, Facebook is the Las Vegas of the internet, there is something to do at all times. When you go to your home page it is lit up with all kinds of updates, ads, pics, etc. The original intent was to bring people together in one single place on the web, and in my opinion FB has reached its saturation point, and I feel like it may be all down hill from here.

So heres the thing, I want to know what others feel about the issue. Do you feel that is still the best networking site out there? What do you like about FB, what do you hate? I want to know...

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PALM PRE COMING TO VERIZON! THERE IS A GOD

JUST READ THIS!!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/07/palm-pre-verizon-sprint.html

Steve Rogers is Captain America, Not Will Smith

Hi everyone, Josh here,

If you follow me on twitter you probably seen my spaz out yesterday over the news that Will Smith is being considered to play Marvels Captain America.(Click here for the story)or here. 

Now I am definitely NOT trying to play the race card, but! the first thing I thought was . . . . .  Captain America is white, Steve Rogers is white, Will Smith is black. That is not to say a black man could not play Captain America , because plenty of others have taken the captain america shield over the years, Including; Bucky Barnes, Roscoe, Scar Turpin, and the black Captain America Isaiah Bradley. 

Yes Will Smith Could play the Isaiah Bradley Version of Cap. But! everything that has been release about the movie thus far has said the movie is going to take place during WWII. Steve Rogers was Captain America During WWII. Sure in Truth: Red, White, & Black, They claim that Isaiah was the original cap, but he was the original because he was an experiment of the super soldier serum. The original official Captain America (dating all the way back to Timely magazine, before marvel bought the rights to cap) Is Steve Rogers! And if we go back to any version of Captain America and look at any comic version of WWII The Invaders (click here for more on the invaders) Which was lead by Steve Rogers aka Captain America.

 Not Isaiah Bradley. And even if they don't go off of the original story line, Steve Rogers has been captain america for what I'd say has been 85% of the time since Cap was created, so it'd be foolish to have some one play a different version of cap than the Steve Rogers version.

All I'm saying is Will Smith CAN NOT be Captain America,

 it would not be write for cap to not be Steve Rogers, and it would not be right for Steve Rogers to be Black. This has nothing to do with race, it has everything to do with history and tradition.

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iGoogle

Who out there uses iGoogle? If you don't you should, I'm a firm believer that its one of Googles most under rated products. I have all my sites linked to it. I can update my twitter, my friend feed. I can read my google reader, and news. I can get my google voice calls, and even make my google voice calls. All from one page.

I'm Looking to get some feed back on what other people think of iGoogle, and what applications they find useful.

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Question of The Day

Do you still use or have your myspace?

The Video Lebron didn't want you to see

Since we are bringing the internet to you, here is the much hyped video of Lebron James getting dunked on by a college kid

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Alice in Wonderland Teaser

Sorry everyone, apparently the Alice in Wonderland trailer got yanked, must've been leaked.

Sam Raimi enters the WoW

Sam Raimi, director of the Evil Dead and Spider-Man series is apparently set to direct the World of Warcraft movie, nerds everywhere rejoice in their parents basements!

Full article here

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End of the day moon discusion

Josh

whats up?!

9:49pmRyan

watching about the moon landing man

9:49pmJosh

lol

9:50pmRyan

ITS REAL!!!

9:50pmJosh

lol so was Cloverfield

9:50pmRyan

and godzilla

9:50pmJosh

and star trek

9:51pmRyan

i went to the moon once

9:52pmJosh

lol I went to Atlantis last weekend! top that

9:53pmRyan

my closet leads to Narnia

9:57pmJosh

man you got me there

9:57pmRyan

i thought so..

So Me (Josh) and Ryan Just had a good convo about the moon.

Would like to thank everyone for staying tuned to our days coverage of

the moon.

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Fakers!!

New evidence that the moon landing was fake

Nasa really should've been more careful!

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25 Tech Flops

I was going to write about the moon landing being faked, but Josh beat me to it, so to hold you over here is a list of cnet's 25 biggest tech flops of the decade.

Source [cnet.com]

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One small step for man, one giant leap for video production

The moon landing was shot in a film studio, just face the facts

Sorry to ruin your Monday.

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Web Site Of The Week

grocerybag.tv

These two are doing a great thing with the Internet. Making music and movies, and posting in on their website for the world to see. Please give them some traffic they really deserve it.

-Joshua A. Hardt-

gdgt.com

A new tech website where you can discuss, read and even makes lists of all your favorite technology.

-Ryan Williams-

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When In Doubt, Change Your Name

If at first you don't succeed, rename your products. I have a been a loyal VZW user for a long time now, and good ole big red is trying to pull a fast one on you. I'm sure you've all seen the commercials for the all new "app friendly" LG enV TOUCH, well don't be fooled, this is the LG Voyager that failed so miserably with a different name. Check the specs, they are mostly the same with a few updates here and there. The touchscreen is a little bigger and it has a better camera, but other than that, not much has changed. I can assure you this phone is not really "all new" just an updated version of the Voyager, and if you didn't like the Voyager, you probably aren't going to get along with the enV TOUCH.

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Google Chrome Os, And Why You Won't Like it, And I Will

I'm not going to go into the technical aspects of the OS. Cause you don't care, but this is what we do know thus far. Starting next year there will be a lightweight OS on net book computers blah blah blah. Lets get straight to the point, I love google, but Chrome OS is going to fail, and here's why.

If you don't currently use everything google has to offer, then you will not be happy with what they are going to do with the OS. They are going to go towards the cloud computing. Basically, If you don't store your pictures on Picasa, don't type your papers and do your work presentations/spread sheets with google docs, and you don't upload all your video to YouTube. YOU WILL NOT LIKE IT. It is going to be made for net books. There is none-little storage on these. And for this type of OS you don't need it. But its something a lot of people feel they can not live with out.

Don't get me wrong, I believe that its going to be a great operating system, and I promise I will be downloading it on day one and deleting the Windows off of my machine. But don't expect it to be the Windows killer the rest of the tech world is talking about.

This is not the end of my Google Chrome OS Talk. But for now Ill leave you with that, think about it, if you disagree, let me know.

p.s. long live GOOGLE

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Joshua A. Hardt

Introductions

I am Josh.

I Live in Chicago.

I am a film student

I love technology.

I am currently making a movie (Shameless Plug)

I plan to write about;

things on the internet that bug me,

Google,

Fun things that I find online.

I am not here to please you

My name is Ryan

I live in Michigan

I am a videographer and editor

I also love technology

I am a happily married man

This is my personal blog

I plan to write about;

Technology I adore,

Cell Phones,

Random web finds,

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