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Oct 25, 2008 | 08:47 PM

Vinyl Styles

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Facebook for MINIs

Hey guys,

I thought ya'll might like to see this great new site for MINI owners.

It's like facebook/myspace for MINIs, but without all the junk/spam.

www.mondo-minis.com

Oct 25, 2008 | 09:24 PM

ricbow

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From: nor cal

yeah !

Oct 26, 2008 | 09:06 AM

pilotart

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From: Florida, South Gulf Coast

Went there and thought it looked like an interesting site, however:

After playing the Michael Palin Video without problems,
went to play the one above (SNL's Thursday's comedy skit) and halfway through, my entire system completely froze.

Only option was a 'Hard Shutdown' followed by a recovery to two hours before.

Oct 26, 2008 | 06:22 PM

bluemeanie357

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From: NJ

Quite amusing... someone needs to make a "Minibook" app for facebook like catbook

Oct 28, 2008 | 03:27 PM

PlayPlay

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From: Alexandria, VA

Quote:

Originally Posted by pilotart

Pilotart....sorry to hear about that. That's the first time I heard about the issue and I'll talk to the network tech's about it. It's actually a link to the NBC website so it's quite possible it's an issue with NBC and not our webhost.

Well I hope you'll still check it out! The site can be a bit multi-media intense.

But, people are having fun over there

Last edited by PlayPlay; Oct 28, 2008 at 03:43 PM.

Oct 28, 2008 | 03:42 PM

Gil-galad

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From: Decorah, IA

... Maybe I'm just being overly cautious.

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Thanks for the added clarification on the data collection...much appreciated!

Last edited by Gil-galad; Oct 29, 2008 at 05:22 AM.

Oct 28, 2008 | 03:53 PM

Dubaian

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From: SoCal

done

http://www.mondo-minis.com/profile/Dubaian

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Oct 28, 2008 | 05:03 PM

PlayPlay

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From: Alexandria, VA

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gil-galad

Larry, my only trepidation was that the account establishment process seemed to demand a sizable amount of personal identification information. I got about 3/4 through the second-level query and then decided to back out.

The privacy policy is nice and quite thorough but there seems to be a lot of players involved and I wasn't convinced that components of my account information wouldn't become accessible to some third party, even if not done overtly. Maybe I'm just being overly cautious.

Hey I just tried to register again to see what you were talking about since I don't remember any privacy concerns or questions. I want to put your mind at ease, those questions like "What year is your MINI", "What model is your MINI", etc. are questions I created to populate your profile!

The questions are totally optional and you can just leave them blank.

The ONLY question that is of any private nature is "What is your birth date". And, you don't have to put your real birthdate in there if you don't want to. NO WORRIES Gil-Galad!

So please, anybody interested in the site DON"T WORRY!

For everyone's info the site is on the NING network which is founded by the creator of Netscape and hosts 500,000 social networks. So it is quite well known and reputable. I'm the only "admin/moderator" and I don't see ANYBODY's personal info!

Hope that helps

Sweet, Dubaian! I hope you put a pin on the Frappr map there. Would love to have someone from Dubai represent!

Last edited by PlayPlay; Oct 28, 2008 at 05:18 PM.

Oct 28, 2008 | 05:12 PM

Brian0758

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I an really enjoying the site that PlayPlay set up. It is amazing that we are getting so many Mini enthusiasts from around the world

Concerning the privacy issue what I have always done is used a dummy email that only posts to my Yahoo account and it doesn't hit my at home computer.

Just my 2 cents, B.

Oct 28, 2008 | 05:17 PM

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AliceCpr07

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From: Towson/Baltimore, MD

I've been enjoying it since he opened it up to us. Member #12!! (or 13, cant remember)

Oct 28, 2008 | 05:36 PM

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Maxicooper

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Hmm....

I have visited the site everyday for 2 weeks now and I haven't had problem of any kind with the site.

The site is great and fun to visit. Calm, cozy and w/o politic involved.

Highly recommend.

Oct 28, 2008 | 06:06 PM

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AliceCpr07

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Maxicooper

The site is great and fun to visit. Calm, cozy and w/o politic involved.

Highly recommend.

Oct 28, 2008 | 06:15 PM

#13

Wolfeee

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From: New Yawk

I'm there!!!

Oct 28, 2008 | 07:51 PM

#14

futuremini

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From: Depends on the day.......

#50 BABY!!! YEA!!!

Oct 28, 2008 | 09:16 PM

#15

pilotart

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From: Florida, South Gulf Coast

Video Clips ???

Quote:

Originally Posted by PlayPlay

<...>It's actually a link to the NBC website so it's quite possible it's an issue with NBC and not our webhost.<...>

Went looking for SNL Video Clips and this was what I saw:

On MSNBC.com or TodayShow, etc., could access and play SNL (or any other video) without problem.

However, on the SNL Video Site, could not play a single video, they would load,
but just display an Oxygen Blue solid image on the video screen and no data loaded either.

So evidently my system (running Firefox 1.5) has a 'thing' with pure SNL video.

Oct 29, 2008 | 02:59 AM

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Maxicooper

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Quote:

Originally Posted by pilotart

I have just tried on the SNL Video Site, I can play the video flawlessly. Hmm... I'm running on explorer.

I'm going to try one at my office (running Firefox) to see if there is any issue.

Oct 29, 2008 | 03:50 AM

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PlayPlay

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From: Alexandria, VA

Quote:

Originally Posted by pilotart

Well, even though I'm relieved that it's probably not my site, I'm sorry to hear that you can't watch SNL vids!

Man, I watch those things all the time cuz they're just freakin hilarious. BTW, I also use Firefox and we are up to version 3.03.....that might help if you upgrade...

Oct 29, 2008 | 04:06 AM

#18

mini_macky

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member #57

Oct 29, 2008 | 05:53 AM

#19

thejokell

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From: Chesapeake, VA

Any website that starts playing music when I go there is immediately closed. Any chance that can be turned off by default?

Oct 29, 2008 | 07:55 AM

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pilotart

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From: Florida, South Gulf Coast

Video Clips and MINI Music

Quote:

Originally Posted by PlayPlay

Well, even though I'm relieved that it's probably not my site, I'm sorry to hear that you can't watch SNL vids!

Man, I watch those things all the time cuz they're just freakin hilarious. BTW, I also use Firefox and we are up to version 3.03.....that might help if you upgrade...

Just opened my IE-7 and the same SNL video site played fine.

Last time I checked, more than half of my 'extensions' (about 30 of them) were not compatable with Firefox-3 and only other complaint had been from AutoTrader, but it clicked through and worked fine.