HK → UK → US → ?
After briefly flirted with using the London's Eye as the banner, I think this tennis one is much better. The only gripe I have is that I can't change the text colour to white so the title stands out better.
(And yes, that is my foot at the service line)
If you tell me six months ago that I will have multiple online 'presences', I would probably laughed in your face! Seriously, I didn't think I'll need more than a blog and a photo site online. But once I discovered first Twitter then Tumblr, I realised there are multiple ways of self-expression online and each of them represents a facet of me.
This week, I signed up with VIRBº which is a more 'mature' version of MySpace. Though nowhere as big as MySpace, it definitely looks much better, more professional. But the feature (upcoming actually) that caught my eyes is that Virb allows you to import blog posts from other sites. Assuming that it works via RSS like Tumblr's own post importing feature, this means I can have my Vox posts display on Virb without a bunch of copy & paste. So what's the big deal? Well, this means Virb can potentially become my online presence 'aggregator', while all my other sites show just one aspect of me. Vox for my thoughts, Flickr for my photos, Twitter for what I am up to at the moment, and Tumblr for things I find interesting. In the future, friends and family can discover all about me without going to four, five different sites while I am not locked in to Virb for all my content.
The lack of aggregation is my primary reason for shunting MySpace (hideous colours and layout are the others). In this Web 2.0 age, it is impossible to expect user to recreate content when they are already online somewhere. Why should I copy & paste blog posts from Vox into MySpace? Why should I save my Flickr photo then upload it to MySpace so I can share it?
If Virb can generate more buzz and expands the user base then I can foresee it replacing MySpace as the social network to be in. At least for the 'mature' users.
(You can find my other web presences on the left side bar. And if you want an invite for VIRB, just leave me a comment. I have 99 invites left.)
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Show us your Vox tag cloud.
I would show the world my tag cloud if it is accurate! Unfortunately it is not updated with any predictability. Vox seems to update the cloud every few weeks or months, depending on some mysterious events.
For example, my tag cloud does not show 'battlestar galactica' as a tag. But yet, here is a recent post with one. Is there some type of minimum post ceiling a tag must hit before making into the tag cloud? If so, what is it? If not, why are some tags in the cloud and some not? And what is the point of the tag cloud if not to show every tags I have in my blog?
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Now I am slightly regret my decision to buy the Nokia E61. It has no camera but I thought I didn't use it enough when I had the Treo so it won't be missed. But with the new Vox Hunt feature, now I want a camera on my phone. It would be such fun! 😦
With the new features added to Vox, the one that I wanted most is the cross posting to TypePad. If this works well, I may not need to double post on Vox and TypePad anymore. Eventually I may be able to just abondon TypePad for Vox.
Lost in Colonisation 