Because I Was Bored…

Ricky, I’m just glad you’re doing this in the privacy of your own room. Uhh…. this is awkward.

That’s just NUTS.

The walrus dances to Michael Jackson.

Looking for a bro to hang out with? Dax to the rescue.

Are ipod owners always this friendly? iThinkNot.

Superbad: The F*ckin Short Version. Fuck!

They should play these songs on Rock Band… Kid Songs by Rock Stars

Thoughts.com is a new blog service, much like LiveJournal, Blogger, or Wordpress, and it invites the user to share their thoughts. It seems to have more of a pop culture and politics focus as it seems to me that tries to become a portal. That’s a pretty good twist.

On the front page of thoughts.com, it displays the recent blog posts, news to several topics such as Top News, Life, Business, Sports, and Politics. It features the latest photo and video uploads, as well as popular blog tags. The tags come in handy because you get to see what people are blogging about, and it really compels me to click on that certain topic. I signed up myself, and it was very straightforward and it only took a couple seconds to do. The features are everything that I expected of a usual blog system, which is a good thing.

The Forum is a useful feature where you can converse with other thoughts.com users. There seems to be a good amount of users that I can interact with, and the topics of discussion go from general discussions, to news, entertainment, life, politics, religion, and writing. I guess if you don’ t want to post your thoughts in your own blog, you can on the forums, as you’ll get almost instant feedback.

[ http://www.thoughts.com/forums/ ]

Some of the websites that you will see pop up more and more this year will be niche social networks. The big dogs like MySpace, and Facebook are more of a general social network, but http://www.stracka.com drills down into a specific market, in which in this case, golfers. It’s a A Social Network for Golfers.

My experience with golf has only been with video games, or on the driving range. When I first visited the website, it had a good first impression on me. It didn’t look too overwhelming with marketing and ads. The layout and color scheme is very clean and it appeals to the golfing scene. Navigation areas are obvious, and its features seem robust and should appeal to even the beginner of golfers. It’s free, so I gave it a shot. It took less than a minute to sign up and set up my profile. I can upload photos, create a blog, participate in forums, and message other members. It first glance, and after a good hour or so of exploring the website, it looks as though it was built with the user in mind. I applaud that.

The features which I like are: Google Maps mashups with golf course data and contact information, local golf course search, sharing score cards, ranking of popular golf courses, and most importantly meeting other golfers you can golf with at various courses. You can’t get that anywhere else.

[ A Social Network for Golfers ]