August 20th, 2008
by
Brett Bumeter
Utterz is not likely to be anything like what you may have heard or been led to expect.
No one has really nailed its capability in a description yet, but I will give it a try here with a new acronym.
Utterz is possibly one of the first functional ASS MAAAPS on the internet. ASS MAAAPS is the acronym for All Source Social Media Accumulation, Analysis, and Publsihing System (ASS MAAAPS).
Frankly, I think you will find that there is not a nicer set of ASS MAAAPS anywhere else.
Basically, what you are looking at and playing with is a system that enables people to communicate from almost any source including but not limited to (sms, mms, cellular phone calls, landline phone calls, skype, voip, plus computer inputs including text, audio, video, or images uploaded or captured, and these can be posted individually or all at once together.
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| If you can model this device, I bet you could probably model anything from clothes, to seat belts, to isotoner gloves, to proactiv acne cream to sex toys. |
Once the input has been provided from any source, the user community at Utterz can independently decide to accumulate the information, analyze it, communicate with it in the form of replies (text, audio, video, or pictures) or even republish the information to almost anywhere on the net through a number of easy connections touching twitter, facebook, myspace, blogger and any other blogging tool you can think of for that matter and much much more enabling all of us to spread our knowledge with this giant ASS MAAAPS or social networking platform.
Plus, sometimes we even do this while taking a wild stab in the dark at a little humor. 
ps - love your work! 
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August 8th, 2008
by
Brett Bumeter
I don’t change my profile head shots on different sites very often. I guess you could say I stick with my profile when I find one that I can live with. I don’t dump my head shot at the earliest indication of bad weather, or inept lighting, a hair out of place or even a little blurriness. But today I finally got around to making a change.
I see many people around the social networking world that change their head shots like they change their clothes. I’m not jealous, but I do appreciate the work they go to to accomplish that task and I’ll admit that I am impressed as well.
I tend to keep a profile or head shot around for months if not a year or two (typically until someone tells me that my profile doesn’t look like me any more).
I added this profile today. It casts me with a serious brooding demeanor, which is funny to me. As my demeanor inside is usually a riot of laughter, but my poker face rarely reveals this to other people unless alcohol is involved.
In part I created and updated my head shot as I will be attending conferences this week in LA and Las Vegas and I wanted to get something more up to date, so that it would be easier for people to recognize me. I’m no celebrity by a long shot, and many times at these events any bit of familiarity can open the door to a great conversation and in real life just like on the web, on my blogs or on social networks like Utterz or Facebook, I love a good conversation.
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As a side note, one of the first conversations I ran into, actually ended up being at a resident where this guy was sporting a ‘big ass watch’ literally, that was the brand name of the watch and it was a Big Ass Watch. Kind of like Flavor Flav had just offered up a wrist watch version of one of his own famous big ass watches. It wasn’t one of these rather petit Festina watches, but this massive trinket bound to capture attention. It reminded me of the head shot from the perspective that there are times when people use head shots for similar effect. They put themselves in a crazy situation or go through some peculiar photoshopping process to come up with something remarkable for the explicit purpose of gaining extra remarks. Now, I’m not that aggressive these days in trying to coral in conversation around benign topics, but for those of you out there trying to make an impression, there are more tricks for your bag if you are willing to be a little goofy.
August 7th, 2008
by
Brett Bumeter
So I clicked the button to try the new facebook this morning. My first impression, was that it looks just like my old ‘My Yahoo’ page did except for this is social crap instead of news crap.
My second impression was that this was a better layout, because it moved my own personal information to a deeper page where people can find it if they want it, but don’t have to scroll through it all the time. (I usually had it set to the bottom of the page anyway.)
Then I ran into a dislike with my third impression. My Utterz Box has been relegated to the last tab of my Facebook profile. I’ll be honest, I don’t care much about Facebook. Its handy sometimes, but Utterz is a tool I use just about every day. I want my utterz out there full and center hanging and swaying in all their glory every day, and Facebook, a slightly competing social network too, just pushed my Utterz out of site, where they might actually become out of mind.
Hey Facebook, I want my Utterz Back in Front!
Oh, and hey Utterz, Why is my Utterz thingy on Facebook always populated with a big Question mark?
Sticks out like a teenager that found anything but the best acne products before year book pictures were snapped.
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