Felicia Day

So, I’m spending a lot of time on the internet today and yesterday.   And I realize, I may be addicted to start-up internet companies.It’s almost an obsession of mine.  I have a bunch of important tech blogs, like Mashable and Techmeme, and Techcrunch and a bunch of others on my iGoogle page “Tech”, and whenever a startup that is slightly interesting is mentioned, I go and sign up.  Why?  Well for one…ok, it’s a quest to be able to use the handle “Felicia” instead of “FeliciaDay.”  It’s like, I’ve arrived first:  The first Felicia to…mark the territory.   Grossly put.  BUT second reason:  I’m desperate for a way to manage my online life.Not only do I have all the requisite social networking accounts, but I have many other places where I like to have a web presence, like Twitter, and Flickr, etc.  But it’s become a chore, as you’ve heard me whine time and time again, to maintain all these and keep up with them.   Good thing:  A lot of entrepreneurs are aware of the niche-filling problem and are filling it.   To varying success.

  The hottest one of these is FriendFeed.  It’s been jumped on by the early adopter band wagon, and YES I’ve been on there for several weeks now, but honestly, I don’t really get how to use it that well.  You can basically hook up your online life feed there, add all the things you do on the internet like Facebook and YouTube and Flikr etc. and have it be a feed on you that people can Subscribe to, like RSS.  Cool concept.  Sad to say, the superficial rules my impression of this site.   The look of it is pretty bare bones and not attractive.  It doesn’t make me want to hang around at all.  And it just seems like there’s an endless feed of junk, and that’s from being subscribed to just one or two people!  I’m only following a few relative strangers now, but even if they were my closest buddies, the aesthetics of this site leave me wanting more.   Evidently new stuff will come rolling in soon, (Hopefully a more attractive way of sorting feed information) and there ARE nice features like commenting on feeds etc.  I will keep trying it, but they need to get some Makeover magic!

  That is what SocialThing! has, and yes, I tend to want to play around with this site more because it’s pretty.  Unfortunately, they are limited at this point in what programs you can add (they’re adding new places like WordPress, Pandora etc. on a continuing basis) and it doesn’t allow comments like Friendfeed does, so I don’t log in much.  I’ve heard that it’s capabilities are much shallower than Friendfeed, but I’m not that sophisticated a user so I haven’t delved into the micro-utilization.  I like it enough to say that when it has a greater selection, I will totally use it more.

   The program that has really changed my online life in a small way is something my brother Ryon (YES I GAVE YOU CREDIT) hooked me into:  Digsby.  If you’ve ever used Trillian, or Adium for the Mac (Other downloadable chat aggregators), you know the joy of having IM and ICQ and Yahoo Messenger together, but Digsby has made me a happy clam like no one’s business!  Not only do I have IM/ICQ/Messenger AND Google Chat in one program, but it has Facebook AND Myspace alerts AND email alerts!  So, depending on what I tell it to alert me about, a little attractive rounded box pops up on my desktop.  AND there are little icons for Facebook and Myspace, so I just click on those items in the toolbar, and can see all the activity for that program in a nice box.  Don’t have to log into MySpace until I have to!  Sadly, they aren’t supporting Mac yet, but they have plans for it in the near future they say.  I would definitely recommend giving it a test drive if you’re a PCer.

 I just stumbled across a web-based program like Digsby called Fuser that I just signed up for and will try out.  DAMNIT!  I WILL COMBINE THINGS!  Anyone else have newer startup stuff they’re addicted to already?  Clue me in!

Strangely enough, I clicked on a Dr. Horrible link in my daily “Felicia Day” Google Alert email (YES, I Google Alert myself, it’s not narcissism, it’s BUSINESS ) and lo and behold the official fan site for Dr. Horrible is up and running here!   Wow, when Joss said this would be a “little internet project” I guess maybe I took him at face value a little too much, haha.  Pretty exciting to see him already turning the internet upside down, and people so interested,  so early on!

Looking at this site made me think:  Goddamned I need a new website!  They put that great place together in like, a week!  I mean in comparison this place is pretty ghettolicious.  I need to flip my blog over to my main directory and have the whole site be a WordPress platform.  I have some skins I’ve looked at adopting, but nothing makes me happy.  I guess is the narcissism and modesty fighting tooth and nail in my head.  I don’t want my cheesy face slap-dab in the center of people’s screens when they log onto my site, but when I play with a skin WITHOUT that, I’m like “Well, am I an actress or not?!  Show your mug woman!”  And…and I have no time for anything so…oh well.  Summer project   If anyone finds a skin I could easily adapt like this layout, let me know.   That site is brilliantly laid out!

Total separate issue, I was hunting around and found a “behind the scenes” little video from a project I did in the past, it will remain nameless.  Someone was just filming the set and happened to pick up a conversation.   I wasn’t in the video, but it showed some of the actors hanging out waiting to shoot, and saying some stuff that they wouldn’t necessarily want thrown on the internet, at least I wouldn’t if it was me.  I was pretty disturbed by that.  I mean, when you’re hanging out waiting to work, you don’t think that a private conversation would be broadcast to the world, but when people are interested in what you’re doing, especially actors, it seems like it’s fair game to do whatever with their privacy.    I don’t have the cleanest mouth, I like to say “balls” a lot, but if a video of me cussing like a sailor got out there, which I’m sure there’s one out there from improv at least, it could hurt the way some people think about me.  I dunno, it just seemed pretty lame to throw this unnamed clip on the internet without permission.   And made me think…I need to look out for cameras when I’m cussing.  HAHA.

Rock Band moshes over to Wii on June 22nd – Engadget

Who wants to wait in line with me?

Hey!  If anyone here uses Twitter, resident web guru Edgar Garcia has made a “Periwinkle Team” for the color wars competition that I joined:

http://colorwar2008.com/teams/periwinkleteam

If you don’t use Twitter, you’ll be like, “Huh?!”  If you DO and don’t already have a team, go ahead and “follow” periwinkleteam  and then follow the instructions on uploading pics for the color wars at:

http://colorwar2008.com/ 

Upload by 12am Eastern, so do it quick!  Fun times!