Sociosophy

The Internet, if for nothing else, is a super-highway of data created by Ron Jeremy to distribute his philandering to the masses via his series of … meat tubes. Now, in 2008, we can thank growing bandwidth availability and some handy Web 2.0 goodness to provide us all with the marvels and awesomes needed to make… Porn 2.0 via YouPorn.

It was only a matter of time before someone put YouTube and “The Internet” equation together, and this site’s been around for sometime now… December 2007… over 10m visitors… that’s 10,000,000+ … ?! Twice the market share of stumbleupon, in fact, that’s the market share of reddit and stumble combined. Not too shabby for a bunch of crazy amateurs slathering the webs with their coupling, copulating, fornicating and god knows what else is posted.

A question I ask usually (and answer) is … “Who would use this site?”… Admittedly? Internet porn is pretty much like the Spice Girls. Of the 55 million people that own a Spice Girls cd, only 3% would actually openly admit it.

Nothing is as important to the creator of great and innovative things more than the feedback, praises, and criticisms (constructive, at least) from those who they’re serving their works to. ReviewBasics is a Web 2.0 powered utility that allows you to post your creations and receive notes from others about it… Handy? Absolutely.

Have I signed up? You bet your ass. As long as this site stays free? I’m all about it. They do elude to the possibility of there being pricing, and to be completely vulgar and honest, that’s a complete wad of horse shit. Web 2.0 isn’t about charging people for your service, in my eyes, it’s about finding more creative ways to generate revenue – not charging the people you rely on to make your site successful.

That’s just my piece of business advice for the time being anyway. I’m sure there are exceptions, but, this shouldn’t be one of them. Otherwise, this site is going to provide those who do things a means to gain some feedback on their stuff. Not a bad trade for a few minutes of posting and a few hours obsessing over getting feedback, aye?

Social arena meets the chess arena, with CrowdChess, a nifty online application geared toward flexing your level of “kick ass” with your army of digital-plastic bad asses, armed and ready for war against your social network of opponents.

Keep in mind, this site is still in … damn near alpha phases, but the interface is clean enough, and simple enough as to not confuse you chess folk. Anyhow – to answer the one thing I normally try to with posts – this site is made for chess heads, obviously. More importantly, it gives you nerds… sorry… the intelligent  introverts that are normally, stereotypically, anti-social, a means to meet people just like them, only perhaps… better or worse than them at chess.

Happy hunting you fancy people. Register, play and … oh, report bugs if you find them.

Did someone say frickin awesome?! Read this out-loud, I want your ears to hear what your eyes should barely be believing in the first place. Hulu is a website created to feed you some of your favorite shows, perhaps soon to be all of your favorite shows, via the web… 24? Got it. Futurama? That too. How about the Simpsons? DOH! Yes… the Simpsons are represented… Heroes, and my personal favorite, the mother effin OFFICE!

Limited commercial interruptions, an easy interface, web 2.0 love to save and share your favorites, and did I mention it’s slick as shit, with a twist of holy crap this is rad? Well… now you know. Go request an invite, you want this… You want this so bad, you can even taste it. Unless you like watching television, commercialful, and unwonderful as it is…