Techies learn to dodge bullets (kosso) http://ping.fm/8VJQr

New Blog Location : blog.kosso.co.uk

Hi all.

Firstly, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

Secondly, I thought I should mention that I have finally got around to setting up my own server with all the required gubbins to host the latest WordPress on it.

So, you can now find my blog over at http://blog.kosso.co.uk !

Oh yes… it’s a new me! See you there!

Spore : Documenting the history of the Phreadzasaurs!

Over on the games channel on Phreadz, I have been uploading historical artifacts from the evolution of my creatures in Spore. Oh yeah. Phreadz has some fearsome creatures behind it! On the look out for the Raccoons! Hehe.

Click the green button in the top right of the player to see the story so far…

Sit back and watch how this amazing game develops. You start off as a hungry amoeba. Then you have to grow legs and take off to the land to evolve your new species, which you design entirely using the really fun tools. It’s incredible the amount of scope for creatures in this world.

The gameplay can sometimes be a bit tedious and frustrating, but the cutaways and characters are pretty rewarding and fun.

I had a pain installing it due to the DRM service not working when it should. But once I got over that, I was fine with it. EA Games are getting a LOT of stick for it though. It’s apparently now the most pirated game ever! Pirate Bay have had it on their top list for a week or so.

I bought my one months before it came out. Was it worth it? I think so, but they’re quite restrictive on how many times you can install it, which seems to have annoyed a lot of people, with Amazon customers showing it as the worst rated game.

Phreadz is “Social Meta Multimedia!”

It’s been a very busy few weeks!

I’m happy to announce that Phreadz has really gone ‘meta’!

Thanks to the guys at 12Seconds.tv releasing their API, members can now pull in a post from 12Seconds.tv! Great work guys!

Phreadz is a ‘Social Multimedia Conversation Network’ which lets members thread conversations together by recording or uploading a video/audio/photo in the browser and allows the sharing of posts from YouTube, Blip.tv, Qik, Seesmic, Vimeo, Viddler, Flickr (photos too!) even presentations from SlideShare! This can (and does) lead to incredibly rich and engaging (and entertaining!) conversations.

This is META-MULTI-MEDIA!

For more news about this announcement:

TechCrunch : 12Seconds.tv Releases Video Status API (500 Invites)
The Inquisitr : 12seconds releases an API, complete with launch partners
C-NET News : Video status site 12seconds launches API
Mashable: 12seconds API Launches with Blippr and TweetDeck as Partners
ReadWriteWeb : 12Seconds.tv Launches API, Partners With Tweetdeck, Phreadz, and Blippr
Venturebeat : 12seconds extends its 15 minutes of fame with an API

Here’s how easy it is!

PHREADZ » MacBook Pro Power Adaptor MagSafe FAILURE

Flabbergasted at how poorly there connectors are made and cost FIFTY NINE EARTH POUNDS to get a new one!! Just for a failed spring, which then started going black!

ATTACK OF THE KLONES!

Far too much to do on Phreadz to do too much of this. But it’s fun! ‘we’ shall return!

more about "ATTACK OF THE KLONES!", posted with vodpod

THE PHREADZ KLONES

more about "THE PHREADZ KLONES", posted with vodpod

PODCAMP : PHREADZ CHANNEL – public access!

We LOVE PODCAMP! But unfortunately, we couldn’t make it to Boston this year! So, as a tribute and an experiment, I have set up PODCAMP.PHREADZ.COM as a publicly accessible Phreadz channel. Non-members can only view posts for now.

This is also giving people at podcamp the chance to kind of ‘audition’ for a Phreadz tester account. See the page for instructions.

Check out the welcome post by me here :
http://podcamp.phreadz.com/v/H12OEG1O5080/

I plan to do alot more things like this in the future, so stay tuned! And HAVE PHUN!!

ps: ‘Phreadz’ rhymes with ‘threads’

1938 Phreadz Kudos

Thanks Loren! And I truly appreciate your support and ‘matter of fact’ delivery.

Seriously. Kick ass. This means a lot.

And congratulations on the C-NET gig! Have fun with it!

PHREADZ PHRIDAY MEME! “ADVERTISING”

One of our most creative testers, Deek came up with an excellent ‘meme’ today for ads for things which don’t actually need advertising!Awesome!! I love it!

Click the green arrow to autoplay the whole thread from start to finish!

PHANTASTIC!