Stephan Paukner :: syslog

Changes during the recent months:

• Deleted accounts
• Gowalla (meanwhile shut down by FB)
• Foursquare
• FootFeed (that combined the above two)
• FB (after 8 months of deactivation)
• FriendFeed
• Flickr and Yahoo—I had already abandoned Flickr in 2010 and moved to SmugMug last year, but now I also deleted ...
• ... SmugMug, haven’t really dived into it, using Google+ as photo showroom
• PicPlz (only possible via mail to support), using Google+ for random pics
• Last.fm (never used)
• Blip.fm (rarely used)
• Posterous (never used)
• Flattr, had abandoned it in 2010, was too expensive
• Not (yet) deleted
• Brightkite, service was deactivated for weeks, site meanwhile unreachable
• Tupalo, maybe give another chance
• PayPal, closing didn’t work for days due to a “temporary communication problem”—at least I removed critical data
• eBay, not sure if I really don’t need it anymore
• Soup.io, another platform for devotedly wasting one’s time
• Other considerations
• Might set Twitter to private soon, only using it passively

Interesting that a Google guy/gal uses an ancient Firefox on an ancient crappy OS (Win XP). Testing purposes? And interesting also that this was a targeted search.

Apropos, I tried to re-establish Yahoo! as my default interface to the web. It turned out to not deliver the results that I expected, but Google did. Another argument against Yahoo! is that they’re flirting with Microsoft; too bad that Yahoo! 0wns Flickr.