Teh Internets

No Netflix on Droid in CANADA?

Posted by Scratch on July 28, 2011 at 1:47 pm

What gives #Netflix? You guys are doing well up here. You’re taking many providers to task on their billing, service and bandwidth BS. And then, when you produce a product that will MAKE telco’s money – hello streaming over wireless – you give me this? I’m confused. My device is in the list of ‘compatible’ [...]

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 [...]

Usage based billing, Bandwidth caps, Competition

Posted by Scratch on February 3, 2011 at 1:41 pm

I’m just a consumer. I’m a consumer of radio, television, media, internet, hard goods, and mindshare. I believe in paying for product that I choose to use, and I don’t wish to pay for product that I don’t want or choose to support. The CRTC (Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission) has been appointed by the [...]

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 – [...]

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 [...]

Telus TV – aka How to sell a product you don’t understand.

Posted by Scratch on August 19, 2010 at 11:58 pm

So – we’ve been subscribers of that beautifully marketed communications giant for a long time. Well over a dozen years. Internet, and phone. Now – to suggest it’s been a rosy relationship would be silly. Why just last christmas, we had an outage of a few days, which required a call for support. During that [...]

Quit Facebook Day – Riiiight.

Posted by Scratch on May 31, 2010 at 7:43 am

So today is “Quit Facebook Day” – but something tells me it will amount to less than a hill of beans at Zuckerberg’s office. Facebook has become ubiquitous alongside texting for most of today’s teens and sadly, preteens. Their rampant sharing of inane high school and pre-high school content will follow them into their late [...]

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.