Posted on June 27, 2009
Twitter or whatever
So what’s the big thing right now? That’s right, Twitter. Whether you want to believe it or not, Twitter, which started it out small, is becoming very popular, and is on it’s way to rival facebook. While the two sites are very different, they could very well damage each other in the aspect of social networking. But not in the cases that I will examine today. Twitter… has actually created itself a presence where it integrates into many applications that are already available, and in another neat way to look at it, it’s done the same thing with everyone’s lives who have used or are using Twitter! I personally love it, and that is why I have brought it to a new level here on my site! (: I have used Twitter… back in the very early days, before it become increasingly popular. And if you have one yourself (and actually use it!), you’ll know it’s quite addicting in a strange way. I thought I was literally the bomb when I embedded a feed from my twitter onto the site in that little green box, so you guys could pretty much see what I was up to (aka my facebook status…haha). But I thought, why not take it a step further? I recently got the new iPhone 3GS, and the first app I downloaded was Twitterrific, and it is so amazing. Go ahead and get that if you have an iPhone/iPod Touch, I highly recommend it! And so as I continued to integrate the simple “what are you doing?” aspect into my life, from the web, to my iPhone… I discovered a way where I could add it on to my site, and that is Tweetboard, which is now live on the site!
Replacing the old dusty shoutbox that lived in the Sidebar since the beginning, I have now a more robust, up-to-date app to get more discussions and activity on the site. This is Tweetboard, and it is currently in its alpha stage, meaning it’s been just been released but no where near ready for large-scale distribution.. think of it as you being the beta-testers for them! Basically, you click that spiffy new tab on the left of any page, and the Tweetboard interface will slide out, letting you engage in discussions using your twitter profile, which quite literally is all the rage right now. So it’s up to you. As I continue to streamline the site and tweak to make it as amazing as I can, the Tweetboard app is another exciting addition to the site! Also, I plan to link everyone’s twitter who has been involved in the site, so you can follow them! But in the mean time, you can follow me! (; Ha, I kid I kid (but you really can though)! Well, congrats you made it through my rather boring blog post – but hey, I gotta get the word out about Twitter, and its integration with the site! So, go ahead, try it out! Please post your feedback, I need to know what works and what doesn’t!
Whew… that was alotta Twitter-related info! Getting back to other news, a new video is in the works where the NintendoBoy crew will encounter a very sticky situation and will “literally” not know what will happen next (hint hint!) and will be out early July, as well as the long-anticipated return of everyone’s favorite member adventure game that never actually existed, The Rendezvous!
Posted on June 5, 2009
Hiatus… we can explain!
And now, to open this blog post, we have words of wisdom from the guy who invented the word “cool,” Mr. Josh Indech: “FOR REAL! finally we are going to have anew video. this willl be the best one yet. school is over and we ave time to do this video. For the little amount of fans we have left we hope you enjoy the new NB adventures in HD.” Hahaha, ohhhh, you wish I would spell check his blog posts.. but nahhh, that’s why we love him! (: Haaa… so anyway, yeah! There is so much truth to those bold words of Josh. We did it. After such a long time with no videos, we made a new video. And ironically enough, the video is about the reason why we haven’t had any new content on this site in a while, which gives it the proper name… Hiatus. Such a cool word, no? This is actually an uncommon English word, so let me just give you the definition: “suspension: an interruption in the intensity or amount of something.” So… make sense now? 😛 If you already knew the meaning of the word, then my hat off to you!
Man, was it sure fun to make this one. An oh so satisfying feeling that we finally have under our belt, another video. And this, if you’ve been watching this blog lately, you will know that this is our first true high definition video. This 5 minute video took 2 hours to save from my Movie Studio Software in HD format, and then another 2 looooooong hours for it to upload to YouTube, as the video is almost a whopping 1 GB! :O But don’t fret, iTunes users, the Podcast version of this episode will NOT be that big! Haha, oh geez! *pulls shirt collar nervously*
Hopefully this is the beginning of more to come. Haha, this new video is so random when I really think about. Let me know what you think in the YouTube comments page! Thanks for loving us and stuff! :]