Stubbleblog » reviews http://www.stubbleblog.com A curious nerd. Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:30:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 CrowdVine Reviews http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2007/08/crowdvine-revie/ http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2007/08/crowdvine-revie/#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:08:51 +0000 Tony Stubblebine http://www.stubbleblog.com/wp/?p=198 Here are a couple of nice reviews of CrowdVine, including two by TechCrunch. Most people think the service is simple and easy to use. That’s great. A lot of competitors are tackling this space by creating social networks with loads of features. I want to do something simple that’s easy to combine with other services. Chris Messina called that “Small pieces loosely joined,” after combining CrowdVine with Pibb and PBWiki for BarCampBlock.


Roll Your Own Social Network with CrowdVine
9 Ways to Build Your Social Network

Setting your own network is dead simple. You just need to pick a name, pick some profile questions, and then send out invites with a personalized message. You network is hosted at name.crowdvine.com Profiles consist of a photo, location, personal link, description, blog posts, and the questions the creator of the network chooses. Members can also incorporate RSS feeds from another blog, photo stream, or social bookmarking site.


CrowdVine.com — Create Your Own Social Network

There are many reasons to create a network and with CrowdVine.com creating a network is easy. The homepage takes you through three easy steps. First design your network, basically choose your color, there isn’t a huge choice with designing your network at the moment. Then choose your profile questions, this is where you make your network unique, deciding what questions will be in your profile.


Facebook? Why Not CREATE YOUR OWN Social Network?!

This service is pretty straight forward to set up [and] is much less complicated and cleaner [than other sites].

There are no annoying Google Ads placed on the interface, and the simple way people can set up and place their information in their profiles will be appealing to even the most non-tech savvy group out there.

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]]> http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2007/08/crowdvine-revie/feed/ 0 Kongregate/Xbox-360/Wii Showdown http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2007/08/kongregatexbox3_1/ http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2007/08/kongregatexbox3_1/#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:38:18 +0000 Tony Stubblebine http://www.stubbleblog.com/index.php/2007/08/kongregatexbox3_1/ One of my pet peeves for reviews of social applications is to base the review off of a comparison of features. The worst example I’ve seen of this was TechCrunch’s Dodgeball vs. Twitter Showdown in which they declared Dodgeball the clear winner because it had more features. Three weeks later the Dodgeball founders quit because Google wasn’t giving them any support.

The review should have started by looking at which service had the most active users and then looked at which features enabled that activity.

In that vein, here’s my review of three popular gaming options. I own an Xbox 360 and a Nintendo Wii. I almost never play the 360 anymore because I don’t have time. The Wii gets a little bit of play when visitors come over. However, I play Kongregate every day.

The 360 has the best graphics and the most depth in gameplay. The Wii is the most fun. But Kongregate is the one I play more, a lot more. It’s the clear winner. It’s light years better than the Wii or 360, at least if you judge by observing usage. But why?

It wins because of convenience. I’m already on my laptop. When I want a break I don’t have to get out of my work chair, find a controller, find replacement batteries for the controller, find the game disc, and futz with three remotes. I think that’s the entire reason.

My two favorite games are Desktop Tower Defence and Boxhead. I also like to play their weekly challenges highlighting new games.

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