Has Rogers Ruined the iPhone?
Brewed on June 30th, 2008 by Troy Meyer
James Hallen thinks so and has created a site where frustrated Canadians can petition online for Rogers to release better data rates for Apple’s iPhone, which will be released in Canada on July 11th. You can be heard by signing the petition at http://ruinediphone.com, which the creators of the site say will be submitted in a hard copy format to Rogers.
I signed the petition because I think that Canadian consumers need to speak up especially in markets where there are monopolies or a lack of consumer choice. Although the iPhone is not available through other carriers, I have lived without the iPhone long enough that I don’t need to submit to Rogers’ sub-standard data plan offerings.
“Not bad” is not a good enough offering Rogers.
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Socialthing 2.0 Coming Soon!
Brewed on June 12th, 2008 by Troy Meyer
I’m pretty excited about this! Part of my morning routine is firing up SocialThing to see what has been happening with my friends on Facebook and Twitter. Today I was greeted with the message on the right.
Matt Galligan, Co-Founder of SocialThing stopped by my blog the other day to leave a comment about the article I put together showcasing SocialThing and FriendFeed. In his comment he told us that a new version would be out soon and we could expect enhancements to the services offered and the stability and speed of SocialThing.
It would be great to see the ability to view one service’s updates at a time, e.g. click the Facebook icon and get Facebook statuses, click the Twitter icon and get Tweets.
Can It Replace Hahlo, Twhirl?
I have used Twhirl in the past to post and view tweets but lately I have been using Hahlo pretty exclusively. I notice that Matt is using SocialThing to post his tweets, which I don’t normally do unless I want my Facebook status set the same. I’m very interested to see if this new version of SocialThing can convince me to use SocialThing exclusively for posting tweets.
Cooking = Scary Stuff
Brewed on June 10th, 2008 by Troy Meyer
In about a month I will be moving out into the unknown, into my first condo. There are a whole lot of things that will change at this time, but the scariest of all of them is that I will have to cook for myself — and survive what I cook for myself.
Luckily, Dave Navarro (@davenavarro) of Rock Your Day just posted a tweet about Sushi Day, a blog that posts sushi recipes.
This week’s featured recipe over at Sushi Day is the Crazy California Roll. Looks like fun to make, and I love sushi! Let’s just hope I have better luck than Allison (@sushiday) when I set to make myself some Crazy California rolls. :D
Does anyone know of some good blogs/sites where there are easy, classy recipes for a young bachelor such as myself to take a stab at? (The pun is absolutely intended!)
Is Internet Art Diluting True Art?
Brewed on May 30th, 2008 by Troy Meyer
With the wide-spread adoption of the Internet artistic creation is at an amazing high. New art-forms and pieces emerge every day fueled by the accessibility and mass exposure the Internet allows. Is true art being diluted by the garbage being presented as art on the Internet? (more…)
SocialThing and FriendFeed
Brewed on May 24th, 2008 by Troy Meyer
There have been two tools come out recently that take some of your accounts throughout the web and put them all in one place for you to easily peruse or share. If you are like me, you have many different tools you have signed up for on the Internet and your biggest problem is just keeping track of them all. SocialThing and FriendFeed can help.
Added this comment on June 30th, 2008 at 10:59 am
We also voiced our opinion over on R4NT:
http://blog.r4nt.com/2008/06/28/fuck-you-rogers/
It’s really too bad how much we get shafted for cellphones in Canada.. When WHEN will it change!