Spencer Tweedy’s Blog

Readers,

Sorry for the recent blog inactivity. I’ve been preparing for summer camp. I’m going to be away for a month from this Sunday. Sorry!

“Hello, welcome to MOO. We’re a printing company, where everyone is different.” That is what you’re greeted by when you enter MOO.com, an amazing online printing company. On their site, you can order anything from personalized business cards to designer stickers. They offer a neat web-based MiniCard designer where you can create your own personalized miniature business cards with custom images. I ordered a pack of personalized MiniCards. They’re really handy. I cary around a few in my pocket which is easy because they’re so small. Ready made products are also available, but its not nearly as much fun to simply buy those without designing your own, which is what they’ve been made famous for. I hope you enjoy their site and make a comment here!

Move over Second Life. The 3D Web is starting to make inroads into the plain old browser. By “plain,” I mean only Internet Explorer on Windows machines—which for now is what you need to experience Vivaty Scenes. But at least it’s a start. (Firefox support on PCs is coming in a few weeks, but Mac support is being pushed off further). - TechCrunch

Am I the only one who thinks 3D internet absolutely pointless? Think about it. With Vivaty, you walk around your Facebook life, interact with the room and virtual newspapers or whatever. Here’s what I think, “Guess what they just came out with! Real life!! You can eat and walk around and like ride cars and stuff!” How about that for 3D stuff? Well, I guess Vivaty and its kin could prove to be relatively entertaining sometimes, but still. But not only is it just a waste of time, a lot of people, including me, feel that things like this (and also World of Warcraft, especially) promote bad habits and anti social behavior. Its actually proven in a lot of cases that it does.

As always, post a comment and say what you think about Vivaty or Second Life or virtual worlds in general. Thanks!

I read about this over at one of my favorite blog, Hackszine. Its a Lego record player. So, for all you vinyl and/or Lego lovers, here’s your Lego record player.

SmugMug is a great utility to share your photos online. My uncle has used it to create a family tree/photo album and it proved to be the perfect fit for the job. There are no ads or spam on their site, and the galleries are really sleek and easy to make. Its been reviewed before by the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. If you ever need to make an online photo gallery, I think I’d use SmugMug :D.

What do you think about SmugMug?