PIPA, SOPA, and now OPEN…
by TravellingWebGuy on Jan.25, 2012, under My Life, Political Rants, Political Stuff, Thoughts
Mozilla SOPA Protest
Hey TWG readers, It’s been a long while since I’ve posted but this warranted attention! We’re all aware of the PIPA/SOPA bills that the US Government was trying to pass and we’re all very aware of the Global Blackout that was plastered all over websites, in protest of this infringement on the Freedom of Speech and Information. But as the Government has shown time and time again over the last ten plus years, they don’t care what the people think any more and will do what is necessary to line their pockets and keep themselves in office. (continue reading…)
My experience Project Managing a Windows Phone 7 A pp
by TravellingWebGuy on Apr.03, 2011, under Development - Mobile, Development - Web, WP7 Development
Windows Phone 7
A project I got to work on recently while working at Universal Music Australia was a Windows Phone 7 application allowing users to download digital music, purchase physical products including CD/Vinyl/DVD/Blu-Ray/Merch/T-Shirts, and get the latest aritst information. This was a great opportunity for us (UMA) as it would allow Getmusic (our D2C eCommerce platform for Australia) to reach even more users and would bring us even deeper into the mCommerce world. The big win for us was that our application would be the only application selling digital music on this device, in all of Australia. 
Zune is Microsoft’s counterpart to iTunes and while it’s a great music purchasing service, which also has a much cleaner GUI than iTunes, this service unfortunately, and fortunately for us, is not available in Australia. So we own the digital music purchasing market and Microsoft gets to offer a service for their users to buy music. Win-Win
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New Server up and running
by TravellingWebGuy on Mar.26, 2011, under My Life, Thoughts
I’ve just about finished moving all my sites from 1and1 to Lunarpages. The blog has been moved to the proper domain, www.travellingwebguy.com, and working on getting my r3ddstudios.com taken off Googles malware list…. Long story short, a friend from San Diego emailed me asking me what my blog site was. Passed it on and didnt check my site for a while. A friend told there was something wrong with my site, I checked it and sure enough, malware warning! Looks like the friend located some script kiddy file and brute forced the old servers.
No matter now, all good and on a much better platform!
