Niche social networks seem to come and go all the time. The most recent targeted niche: the dying.
The app “My Last Wish” has been released in beta for the iPhone (and soon the Android, because let’s not discriminate.. Android users are dying too).
The app is described as “A social networking application to make friendship with those unknown people from corners of the world with different ethnicity, culture, traditions, value systems, life style and much more – but having only one thing in common and that is the ‘Last Wish’.
“By this application we have tried to unite the community on the “Wish Wall” to share their last wish with the world and find out those people with similar wish as yours before you die, get connected to them and be friends forever.” Forever, I guess, being for the short term in this case.
The app is getting mixed reviews, with some critics calling it morbid and others calling it inspirational. I call it gone in 2 weeks.
*cue John Mayer’s “Say”*
Sarie is needy and I’m focused on my going away party/comedy show “Patrick Higgins is dead!” (May 18th at Club 55, BTdubbs), so we’ve decided to do another CAPTION CONTEST.
*huzzah* *cheers from the crowd* *general merriment and frivolity*
This time, the caption-less photo features an old man whom I can only assume is researching for his role of Omar from The Wire, as performed by the local nursing home.
ANYWAYS, caption away my critters! Leave your caption submission in the comments of this post. And let us steer clear of MSH-centric posts to focus on a broader range for possible viralness. I mean, I’m trying to raise my Klout score here!
Post by the artist formerly known as Patrick Higgins
Thanks to Matt Stevenson for keeping it real.
When he was 5 years old, an Indian boy named Saroo was helping his older brother, who had a job sweeping up trash on Indian trains. Tired, the young boy fell asleep. When he woke up 14 hours later, he was in Calcutta. That was in 1986.
Not knowing the name of his hometown or how to get there, Saroo wandered the train stations of Calcutta and survived through begging. After a year, he was taken in by an orphanage, and adopted by the Brierley family. He spent the next 20 years growing up in Australia.
As he grew older, Saroo Brierley began searching for his hometown on Google Earth, keeping an eye out for landmarks he remembered. He searched the satellite images of India for the waterfall he used to play in. One day, he found it.
“When I found [Khandwa], I zoomed down and bang, it just came up. I navigated it all the way from the waterfall where I used to play.”
Saroo traveled to Khandwa and found the home where he used to reside. He showed the residents a photo of himself as a child and asked for his family members by name. A few minutes later, he was led to his mother. It was February of 2012.
Countdown til this story is turned into a made-for-tv movie? I’ll put 2 bucks on it.
(Source: BBC)
Hooray, my roommate just became MORE annoying!
Klout, the company that measures a user’s online influence, released an app for the iPhone today.
The app will track K+s and feature real-time scoring, giving Klout users the ability to check their scores even more frequently.
This means even more “Yo Sarie, did you see that Kraft tweeted at me? My Klout score is gonna go krazy” and “MC Hammer follows me on Twitter, so I’m prolly gonna get sum new Klout perks in the mail.” (Yes, he really talks like Chet Haze.)
In reality, my roommate’s high Klout score has totally paid off when it comes to Klout perks. Just last week he got a big orange shoe box that included 2 books (do Klout users really read books?), a bookmark (wtf?), and an oversized t-shirt advertising Stephen King’s new book (wow).
A month prior, he received a 3 oz. tube of Axe hair gel. Yesss.
It’s like Klout is saying, hey you cocky nerds (the worst type of nerd), wanna get even less people to like you? Tweet more, waste some time on our app, and then use the crap we send you!
It’s a win win.
Ladies and gentleman, I give you the dumbest Twitter account ever.
Pictureless Pinterest: the best of Pinterest without having to look at the pictures.
Uh, yeah? Of course I follow them..
Like I said.. proud to be an American.
