Many of us bloggers are what we like to call “early adopters”. This means we like things quickly, we like to be the first and we like to break the story in some way.
This Facebook group sources beta invites and try to link up bloggers with beta websites. Blogging about the website’s beta is seemingly optional but owning a blog is a prerequisite.
From the group:
Are you a blogger that loves to get in to test new sites first? Many of those sites are trying to reach you too - but they get lost amidst all the press releases for stuff you don’t care about.
This is an exclusive group for those bloggers who want to try out some of those new Web2.0 sites that are starting everyday, and MAYBE blog about them. Whether or not you choose to blog is up to you … but at least you’ll get the invites first. To join this group, YOU MUST HAVE A BLOG.
I really struggle to MyDigitalLife (MyDL) blogs. It’s not the blogs themselves or the bloggers, it’s the fact that on Amatomu all MyDL blogs appear with a single author, MyDigitalLife. Immediately that puts me off.
I have glanced over and ignored countless posts by MyDL bloggers for this reason. In stark contrast, I enjoy reading Iblogs, Amagama and other who have individual authors listed on Amatomu.
The reason? I think that it is due to the fact that in my mind it appears as if MyDL is trying to own the content of all their blogs and thus alter editorial content.
I was asked to post SA Rocks posts on MyDL a while ago. I started using the service and received little to no feedback. I then noticed my current issue with them on Amatomu and have yet to post another SA Rocks post on MyDL.
Simply put, bloggers on MyDL need to take back their blogs.
We have just published the latest episode of Flamebait, in which Vince and I discuss some of the following burning topics:
* The Facebook domain squat
* Social networking for dead people
* What happens to bloggers when they die or, rather, what should happen
* Linkbait and general misinformation
* Who is Phil Lynnot and why can I never remember the name of the band?
I admire Apple on so many levels for so many different reasons. Lately It has been thanks to my MacBookPro that I admire Apple (I am converted).
However right now it is the Iphone “IFrenzy” as I have coined it, that has me intrigued. Apple makes announcements but there is no need for them to. They simply need to fart and people like the aroma. The Iphone is set for release in the states very soon and this information has people in a tizz. Bloggers are blogging about it, techies are teching about it and laymen are wishing they knew what it could do.
Here is a video to give you a bit of insight:
Wow. But with a price tag of around $499 I think I’ll give it a skip. In fact, I wont need to as it is unavailable in SA for the next, um, ever just about.
Back to my fascination with Apple. I am sure they have had their ups and down as a company. Hell with Microsoft capturing a large majority of the industry Apple have done a sterling job but not without their fair share of stuff ups.
What absolutely amazes me is that they cannot go wrong at the moment (last 3 or 4 years). They simply “let something leak” to the press and they are sitting pretty and riding the wave of rumours that extend throughout the blogging community world wide. Let’s just be serious for a second here, they are so good at what they do that as a South African blogger with almost no access to the IPhone I am blogging about it and posting video footage about it. That is incredible.
As a young businessman I am definitely trying to take a page out of the Apple book and learn from their unbelievable ability to whip up a media frenzy on a whim.
I found this interesting Facebook group. 
