Microblog Cubecakes pt3: Plerb

It's always the same story, I see an alternative website to this and that, I wanted to try it eventhough I've already got a lot of accounts here and there already. But it's not that bad since I basically know how much is "too much" and I don't like wasting. Still though, I fancy myself as a bit of a 'website alternatives reviewer' so I read online lists of web alternatives and finding ones that I can try at the time.

Like Plerb for instance. Qaiku was going downhill that time (file/img attachment, video embedding and rss feed not working) and i dont know why i was so god bored, i decided to make a random roleplaying account for Cangkir as an excuse to try out Plerb. Which resulted in Likaura joining me, making roleplay accounts for her OCs from The Miraculous Guts.
_{[In order of appearance: Eri, Blade, Mike, Scott & Lee]}

And of course, there's Envy Cake (although how I remember it the story didnt go that way, Envy Cake was unsure with getting a Plerb account since it already has Facebook but Cangkir pushed it into getting one). The downside of Plerb is that it has no RSS feed and some updates get washed away into who-knows-where in time, but the upside is that it's clean and simple and reminds me of the old Twitter, which is ok for roleplaying. Then again that does explain the fake so-called celebrity accounts posing as celebs there, which is also a downside.

Microblog Cubecakes pt2: Jaiku & Qaiku

Adocu's server (I think) was pretty unstable that time so it went offline. I realized  that since I have a lot of followers on Twitter, I need some space to put all my personal ramblings without offending any of my followers. Since my ramblings are short & randomly comes out at weird times, it has to be another microblog. And that's when Jaiku came in.

Well, actually I was torn between Jaiku and Identi.ca. I mean for one thing, Identica lets you update Facebook statuses, while Jaiku used to be able to do that, but not anymore (it probably lost its features ever since Google acquired it, idk). But still, what made me chose Jaiku first was those adorable icons. And the fresh green theme.

And Adocu came back. Since then, those three became my main sites to vent & shout random stuff. Moreover I can import my Twitter & Jaiku feeds into Soup and use the RSS import for Adocu (eventhough I still cant update Facebook with Jaiku)

I would still like to try Identica sometime in the future. Cuz this was what happened. It upgraded and I can't see the theme/look customization options anymore.

Well, Status.net has themes, but I still have no clue on how to install them.

A year later, Jaiku announced that it was closing down. I'd pick Identica if it was still in its old layout (not saying the newer one sucks, no, it's all just web evolution) but then I stumbled into something. Qaiku. It rhymes with Jaiku so I assumed it was an obvious clone of Jaiku. I decided to read articles & reviews about its background before finally deciding to make a Qaiku account... a bit early.

Jaiku finally died. I'll miss it cuz Qaiku just isn't the same (although it has more useful features... but still no cute icons)

Microblog Cubecakes pt1: Kronologger & Adocu

Well, you all know the story of how I got a Twitter account... And thus I shall tell you the tale of when I got bored of Twitter and wanted to try the auras of other new sites. Now I've already known there were a lot of Twitter alternatives, THOUSANDS of them. But it only came around to me that I wanted to try some of them. First, there's Kronologger.

   

^{Lol the cameo in here is one of my good friends... and the first boy cameo to appear on Webcubecakes wheeee~}

Kronologger might be the same age as Twitter (or younger or older, I'm not sure) but it doesnt look as pretty. I thought I'd give it a try, still, seeing that what makes me want to try is that it allows us to connect to Facebook and update our status without logging in Fb. Since our university internet blocks access to popular social sites like Facebook, Twitter & Youtube, it doesn't recognize Kronologger much. Now there's an advantage of using less popular sites.

Since Kronologger is Indonesian, I wrote most of my updates in Indonesian & was planning to keep my English updates in Twitter and my Indonesian ones in Kronologger. But it died shortly, like a month after I used it, so once again, my Twitter updates are in mixed languages.
It also has different themes and I tried a few themes. Some parodied existing sites like the Digg theme, the Google theme and the Old School Tumblr theme.

I had a good time with Kronologger... until it died one month later.

And I decided to move on to Adocu. Not only cuz it looks simple and clean, it's a nanoblogging site and that was new to me that time (I still don't know any nanoblogging sites that only allow us to update with one word besides Adocu. There's Hycku though, but it uses only 7 words, not 1)

It was really fun using Adocu (and seeing the long-ass words in our updates) but it gets boring after a while, as there's not much customizations to be done. But occasionally it gives me a fresh breath of a different kind of status updates.

Tumblelogs

*sigh* I'm such a copycat and this is embarrassing.

Ever since I found out about Soup. EVER. SINCE. I'm actually pretending that never happened and still treats Soup like any other tumblelogs out there *coughNotComparingItToTumblrAndPosterousAnymorecough*

But you know when you're on a different website than most of your friends and you kept on virtually hanging out with them online through a third-party site (like Facebook for example), and the two different sites happen to be each other's alternatives, you just get that knack for not just comparing the two sites together, but experimenting if a function on one site can be done in the other and vice versa. That's what I've been doing and so far I've tried changing CSS and putting the Disqus code in Soup (which doesn't work, since Soup doesnt allow users to edit their HTML unlike some blog sites).

I should include Posterous too but most of my friends are using Tumblr & they have no idea what a Posterous is...

Cameos: Ceruleanreaper, Purplecyanide, Twixet (1st panel) & Myoo89 (3rd panel)

Facebook, Skype, Tumblr and Soup

This is what Myoo89 and I are currently doing... y'know, since we live in different places & all.

We're working on a collaboration project currently and need to send Photoshop/SAI files back and forth, and since Facebook can't handle large files, we used Skype. At the same time when we're on FB we randomly show each other links from Tumblr & Soup (cuz I don't have Tumblr & she doesn't have Soup) via Facebook and Skype.

So I figured this is how all that is depicted; Facebook and Skype cubecakes topped with Tumblr & Soup sauces.

And the conversations on Skype were crazy as dope. Here's an example.

Other People's Cubecakes

I do this a lot.

BUT ONLY with websites that are unused or unvisited for a long time and are considered 'dead' eventhough they're still alive. I don't like wasting online accounts so I'm better off exploring other people's dead social accounts whenever I don't have an account for that website myself.

And this only happens with close friends or anyone whom I trust.

Bookmarking Cubecakes ptIII

What can I say, Beritague is a Pligg site. Haha that doesnt even mean anything, but still, all websites undergo maintenance once in a while, it's just that I was afraid it'd end up like Mixx cuz when I tried signing up Beritague last time an error occured. Thankfully it's going smooth until now. EasyBM isnt that bad as well, for one thing it doesnt work like Digg clones, they organize bookmarks into different categories. And sometimes I use BeritaGue & EasyBM at the same time.

And I've recently got a Reddit account too, but how the story really goes is I did a guest comic for Cutting Room Comic, and they put the link on Reddit & I thought I'd join in voting. So now I use both BeritaGue & Reddit for voting & most of my bookmarks go to EasyBM.