Ryan Trembath (dot) Information

Just thought I would write a quick post while waiting for the overly large Java runtime add-on to install on my computer. I need it to upload my videos to myspace and become a **star**. This is a prime example of how to piss your users off. If I was Joe Suburban I would be terrified to install this monster, it’s already taken me 15 min just to try and upload a video. I had to uninstall my old version through the control panel than download the huge installation file.

Myspace video will not kill you tube. I think I need to restart my browser for this crap to take affect.

There is a new DEAFWISH template up and in progress, expect it to get better in the next couple days. Take a look and tell me it’s pretty.

I’ve also stumbled across some lost DEAFWISH recordings that will soon be available. WoOo!

In Music:
Von LMO - http://www.myspace.com/vonlmo
Johnny Thunders - http://www.myspace.com/johnnythundersmusic

Yesterday, a friend and I were doing some basic searches to see if his name came up online. Having deleted his myspace profile weeks ago, nothing should come up right?

WRONG!

Check out this little scraper site operating under the guise of a Myspace search engine. Looks like they’re scraping profile information and (for your added benefit!) putting their own Yahoo! and Kontera ads on the page.

There is nice little disclaimer noting that:

All profiles and associated pictures are copyright their respective authors. MySpaceProfiles.org is not affiliated or associated with MySpace.com in any way.

Does that carry any weight? I’m not a lawyer.

I did find, via the remove my profile link, that you can paste this code:

META NAME=”MYSPACEPROFILESBOT” CONTENT=”NOINDEX”

into your profile so that their robot won’t index your page. This will also (apparently) delete any existing profile on your id. But what if I already deleted my profile?

There is a form where you can enter your id and request it removed, which I have done for my friend. I will keep you posted on whether or not it’s actually removed.

Managing your image just got tougher.

This falls inline with Lisa Barone’s post yesterday. Lisa made all of her personal facebook information private and still ended up in the search results. Turns out that her friends don’t keep the same privacy settings she does.

Where’s my publicist!?

Big companies spend time and money managing their online appearance and now you will have to as well. It’s already a well documented fact that most employers will do the Google, Facebook, Myspace search on you. This wonderous two point oh world of search, social and advanced scraping has the potential to be a headache for us all.

Are you prepared?

Can anyone say bandwagon? Myspace is sooo last year and since I need to be on top of the tech tidal wave I finally surfed up a facebook account.

Over the past week I’ve been able to unite with many of my friends from myspace under this new (pardon the pun) face. Back to being internet hip (for now).

We can thank this new trend in social media for the devaluing of the term friend. Soon enough everyday conversation will require clarifying statements. Is this friend in your immediate meatspace or virtual? Are they top 8? pfff….

Since originally writing this post I’ve returned to the spammy haven known and loved as myspace. The music keeps bringing me back. Soo many good bands at the click of the button. When are they gonna let you make playlists? I’d pay a small amount to be able to stream lists of songs from their site in the order I choose.

1. Friend Posts Bulletin
2. I think “whoa! pics from her crazy vacation…” I click link.
   Timed out session?
3. I type in my login info and press ‘enter’
4. Where’s the pictures man?
   Then I notice the red text saying check the URL in the address bar.

Netted and clubbed. Left to swear, laugh out loud and quickly go change my password.
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