social media

As promised: Quexa Video

Posted by Scratch on July 26, 2011 at 10:50 am

The talks at Quexa 1.0 went great as I mentioned, so please – enjoy!

Quexa you say? Quexa.ca!

Posted by Scratch on July 18, 2011 at 12:59 pm

Today was a great day. Aside from the fact that I’m still desperately congested from this stupid head cold, I must say – today was fantastic. What a great opportunity I was offered today. A good friend, David Papp is involved with a new project called ‘Quexa life 1.0′ – a seminar style session of [...]

EmpireAvenue beta (or else…)

Posted by Scratch on November 22, 2010 at 7:15 pm

Below is the text of an open letter to Dups, (@dups) and CC’d to a few folks from my empire family. Recent changes to the site removed the ability to pay for upgrades to your account, and eliminated the need to pay for stock releases. These changes dramatically alter the game-scape. 5 days ago – [...]

iPhone or bust…

Posted by Scratch on October 27, 2010 at 7:00 am

So – I’ve had a running dilemma for the last 18 months. I bought an iPhone 3G from a contact on Twitter (thanks @paulney!) and have been running it jailbroken as an iPod (with speakers/mic) ever since. For the last 4 years I’ve carried a Blackberry through my office. I’ve learned a few things being [...]

Social Media Games

Posted by Scratch on August 26, 2010 at 10:04 pm
FSM - A construct, or is this really him?

When gaming and social media collide, the ramifications can be amazing. Or terrifying. As game-lord Blizzard found out, the masses love and hate the theory, but in the end in any arena where ego can be built or bruised, those playing with real names are the first at risk. Simple clashes of personality, mis-communication, or [...]

#YEGWX

Posted by Scratch on July 28, 2010 at 3:15 pm

TLDR: Edmonton loves wild weather, and we tweet about it. Let’s all use #YEGWX rather than #YEGWEATHER cause it’s shorter, sassier, and makes us look cool.

Taking Stalk of social media.

Posted by Scratch on May 27, 2010 at 12:27 pm

TLDR: Meat-space meeeting of Empire Avenue players shows value of social media relationships.