What’s your favorite thing to do in the bedroom after having a few drinks?
These people sing about food.
It will be interesting to see them wearing nice clothes and sober on Good Morning America very soon.
Favorite Foods Song
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How to register on Spotify without Facebook
Yes, it’s possible. Here’s how.
But first a little rant…
Spotify is by far the best music streaming service out there right now. If you haven’t tried it, you should.
But, I’m sure you can agree, it’s getting a little annoying all the Facebook integration. Sure it’s easy to see why they are doing it, but *should* they be doing it?
Just give us choices. That is all we ask, Spotify. We love you, but pu-lease.
Now back to the helpful portion of this blog post…
Here is a step by step on how to register on Spotify WITHOUT using you Facebook account. And NO, the answer is not make a fake Facebook account. That’s lame and dumb. My solution is far more sinister and pretty cool.
So apparently Germans don’t like and therefore don’t use Facebook all that much. That tends to be a real bummer for Spotify. So Spotify decided to offer their German users a straight registration process without the need for Facebook.
So this is exactly what YOU can do to. Here is how. BTW, You only need to go thru this process once.
Step 1. Go to a German Proxy service. Don’t know what that is? No biggie, it just means you are running your internet connection thru a German server. You will need to do this before to go to Spotify to trick them into believing you are from German. Tehe. BTW, this is not illegal in any way. So click here. https://www.german-proxy.de/
Step 2. Next copy and paste this German Spotify URL into the field as shown: https://www.spotify.com/de/signup/open/
Step 3. Now Click the link under the Facebook button that says, “Account mit meiner Email Adresse erstellen.” NOTE: If you do NOT use a German proxy this link will not appear. I tried it.
Step 4. Once you are at the German Spotify registration site, which is in German, you can go ahead and complete the registration process. See how I showed you exactly what to put in each blank? That’s for those that don’t read German.
That’s it! Now you can download the app to your computer, iPhone, iPad, etc. and log in with your new non-Facebook username and password!
Enjoy!
All your privacy are belong to us
And if you are thinking I made an error by putting “are” in the title, then you’re not cool.
Anyways, seems like there’s been a lot of smack in the last ‘lil while regarding your online privacy. Facebook, evil, blah, blah, blah.
Let’s be blunt. Game over. All your privacy is no longer your privacy. Done.
Do you think Google+ was created to compete with Facebook? Nope. It was to collect more of YOUR personal data. Because just saving your searches using Google Search wasn’t enough. Nor is reading all your emails in Gmail enough. Nor is tracking everywhere you go on Google Chrome enough.
Why? Because Advertising makes the world go around. And don’t we all just love advertisements.
Hey even Twitter has finally learned this. They are now spamming up your timeline with ads! This is so wonderful!
Time for a test. Answer the follow question and win a prize.
Q. In the future, do you think there will be MORE ads appear on your Facebook wall or FEWER ads?
A. You are wrong. There will soon be none.
Whoa. Please tell me more, you say?
Right now Facebook is working to remove the ads they currently display on your wall. Why? Because YOU are willingly giving them so much of your personal information they will be able to find other ways to advertise to you OUTSIDE of Facebook.
See our concern is that Facebook is sharing your personal information with other people on Facebook when in reality we should be concerned with sharing our personal information with FACEBOOK!
If you are now seriously thinking of committing Facebook suicide, click here to learn how.
And too bad you failed the test. Had you guessed correctly, you would have won a free oven mitt.
QR Code Generator by Zipop
I always wanted to have a QR Code Generator of my very own. You know, for times when ya just gotta make a QR code?
Well, here it is for all your QR code generator needs. With this particular QR code generator you can make QR codes for text, email address, telephone numbers, VCards, MeCards, SMS messages, locations, browser bookmarks, WIFI access as well as good ole URLs.
Try it. Then stick it on your fridge.
Pinterest Prognostication
I just can’t stop writing/thinking about Pinterest.
It’s awesome, creative, original, new, and often imitated.
And so goes all good things on the internet.
Google (Plus) and Facebook will attempt to figure out how to make their respective sites more Pinteresting. Yeah, a cumbersome sentence but meaningful.
“They will attempt to figure out how.”
Yep. I predict Facebook will be the first to add Pinterest-like features to their social stream. I am totes sure they are working on it now. Soon, I am sure you will begin to see a Facebook blue version of “organize and share things you love”. You read it here first.
Then behemouth Google will do the same.
Both will be either epic fails or yawners.
Look for it, this coming from a guy who doesn’t even use Pinterest. Too girlie.
Maybe I should try all those Pinterest-for-guys rip off sites. Hey! Maybe I should make my own!
Zipinterest?
Imitation is the sincerest form of laziness.
Ah, elegance. Simplicity. It’s inspiring. I love to be inspired.
Don’t you?
I was in a mall in Scottsdale, Arizona and was pleasantly surprised to come upon an Apple Store, or so I thought. Upon further inspection it turned out to be a Microsoft store? Wha?!
Lame-o.
That is about the extent of my commentary on Microsoft’s attempt at a retail store. Just copy – must be their motto.
And Microsoft should know better.
But what about those that don’t know better?
Pinterest, as I have written before, is crushing the internet right now with orginality and simplicity.
But hey there’s always Pinspire! Now there is originality!
Lesson here is even though imitation or in these cases theft, is not commendable and not at all admirable nor even excusable they must be profiable.
So if you are trying to crush it in your niche and you are not blessed with the creativity of a 5 year old then hey, go for it and sleep well.
But if someday I happen upon a Xipop.com out there, I won’t be very pinspired.
Add Pinterest Pin It button to Your Posterous blog posts.
Ah, Pinterest. Apparently it, like Derek Zoolander, is so hot right now. I wouldn’t know personally. At the time of this writing I still am being shut out without an invitation. *sniff*
But, I’m believin’ you can gain some totes traffic to your blog from Pinterest. Maybe not right now, but soon the traffic could be flowin your way. Why not get going now? There are several ways to do so. But I want to focus on one in particular.
I suggest you add the Pinterest “Pin It” button to your blog posts. Now, it’s pretty easy to just add the Pinterest “FOLLOW ME” button. But I’m taking about adding the “PIN IT” button to your posts next to your Twitter and Facebook icons. Like so:
This allows other Pinterest users to add to their Pinterest page your cool crap you make at home like a really, really ridiculously good looking chandelier made out of 2 liter bottles of Cream Soda and post on your blog.
Yeah, gotta love Posterous. But, for some reason they will not allow Javascript widgets.
But there is a way around it! I’ll show you how to add it with an iframe.
1. Go to the Pinterest Pin It button page, here to get the code.
2. Scroll down to “Pin It Buttons for Websites.” Looks like this:
3. Enter your blog’s URL in the URL blank. Don’t enter anything in the other blanks.
4. Now copy and past the code bewteen the <body> tags in an HTML document. Looks like this:
5. Now upload this docment to a web service via FTP.
6. Now go to the advanced settings in your posterous admin account.
7. Now search for the following code:
<div class=”facebook_like”>{block:FbLike /}</div>
{block:Tweet /}
8. Add this code right under it:
<iframe src=”http://YOURDOMAINHERE.COM/posterouswidget.html” marginheight=”0″marginwidth=”0″ frameborder=”0″style=”border:0;height:50px;width:120px;”></iframe>
9. Make sure to add the correct URL path to the document you uploaded. Also, you may need to adjust the pixel length and width depending on the Pin It button you selected.
10. Now save your Posterous page.
That’s it! Kind of a pain but it works, that is unless you can’t read good.
Check out the footer of this post. It’s there! Care to “Pin” this post to your Pinboard? 
Now if Pinterest would send Zipop an Invite I’d be back on top, yo.
Four rules for more Twitter followers
Well, at the time of this writing, with only 5 Twitter followers, it may seem that I am not the person to ask.
However, this is Zipop and that means I can tell you whatever I think and you have to believe me. So if you ever want to develop a massive Twitter following besides your friends and frienemies you must be strategic and deliberate.
Here are my 4 rules for crushin it on Twitter.
1. Tweet something of value.
If you tweet something it better be at least one of the following: funny, interesting, unexpected, or informative. Don’t care that you’re at starbucks with your sister-in-law shotgunning a decafe vallina latte while purse shopping – not unless she’s hot and you post a pic. I know what you’re thinking, “what harm does it do to make a boring tweet?” Answer: You get unfollowed. There are just way too many interesting people on Twitter to follow boring people.
2. Tweet late.
More tweets happen late in the afternoon. This means People tend to be on Twitter after work, right after work. So, jump into the rushing rapids and make some noise right when you get home.
3. Tweet often.
Want me to read your blog post on how to change a lightbulb while jumping rope? Chances are if I follow more that 15 people, I’m going to miss your tweet. You must tweet the same message 1 to 4 times per hour. Yes, that much.
4. Tweet Trending Topics.
The three rules above don’t help much if you only have 3 followers to begin with. So you need to get noticed. How? Check out the Twitter Trending Topics over on the right sidebar.
People like to click these links. It’s what’s happening. So if you tweet one of these trending topics with your our comment, thousands of people we see your tweet.
Example:
Today there was a Treding Topic called: #BestTextMessage
So I decided to Tweet the following:
Ha. Pretty funny right? People often check out people with good Trending Topic Tweets and follow the ones they like. Also, great Trending Topic tweets get retweeted by people. Yeah, this tweet of mine was so awesome, someone retweeted it. Now, when people retweet you, they tend to check you out and even follow you.
WIN!
The secret ingredients of “comedy and spectacle”
Today I was, as I do every morning, reading to my children from Wired magazine.
It was an acrticle in January 2012 issue called, “The YouTube Laugh Factory.”
Pretty good. Here are a few take-aways that can apply to any creative crafty cookery, including blogging.:
Rule 1. Make a lot of content.
This is good if you are trying to get a million subscribers on YouTube or trying to rule the blogosphere. Kinda like I’ve always said, “write everyday.” There’s not really a substitue for fresh content. Oh sure, TV has reruns but who watches TV anymore? You gotta bake a lot of cookies.
Rule 2. Target a niche.
Starting to sound familiar? Pick your audience, then narrow it even further. Don’t know who your audience is or who you want it to be? Then better get writing/creating. You won’t know until you slave away for a coulpe years – yes years. Mastering the chocolate chip cookie? How about only dark chocolate chip cookies?
Rule 3. Connect with your fans.
I got a sweet tweet from TLC’s Candy Queen after I tweeted about her…
My Tweet:
Candy Queen’s Tweet:
Am I now a Candy Queen fan for life? Probably not. But if she tweeted me, she probably tweeted a few thousnd other people. That’s how it’s supposed to work. She gets props for engagement. Now she just needs to work on simplifying her candy dioramas.
I am engaging with my fan base as well. Blendra andComputerface are loyal, rabid fans. Why? Because I pay them. But hey, it’s still engagement. You may think your dark choclate chip cookies taste great until you give away a few thousand of them.
My main take-away? All great, viral YouTube videos have in common is “the delicate balance of comedy and spectacle.” Yes, I can agree this is the secret sauce for any creative endevour. Ok, I’ll add to that. You can exchange “comedy” for “interesting.” You can further define “spectacle” as “unexpectedness.”
Think of some examples and send me a tweet or comment.
So does your product have these two ingredients? If not, add some, just a pinch to start.
I got a word – Burnout.
Two straight days of Words With Friends and I’m D-O-N-E (18 points).
I Pounded everyone in my family, over and over, that is except my aunt. She has like 9 degrees and teaches for a living, probably spelling. She knows words that ye olde engilish professors had to look up – like “Qis”. Seriously?
Oh yeah and Ms. Cocopuffs excepted my challenge, and well, let’s just say it was a close game. I think she beat me by about 100 points. Probably had nothing to do with all 7 “I”s and 43 “U”s I had during the game. So did she accept a rematch? Nope. C-H-I-C-K-E-N (32 points).
But my kids are a little smarter. I’m a little better Dad. And the continued technology bond that is strengthening in our living room is enough to make Walt Mosberg cry.
Yes I think I’m done with Word With Friends, but my family?
Nope I can’t get enough. I love it. And they love all my trash talking.
And I’m learning not to read too much in to comments from my 8 year old like, “Dad, don’t you go back to work tomorrow?