Michael Geist sums of last week’s developments in the ongoing UBB saga, from the Toronto Star: The CRTC commissioners appear to have recognized that proposals based on limiting the volume of Internet use are not only bad policy — discouraging Internet use benefits no one — but are ineffective in dealing with network congestion. The… CRTC ready to reverse position on UBB?">Read more »
Monthly Archives:: July 2011
Shaw’s Movie Club
First rule of movie club… backpedal. Earlier today the mainstream media jumped on Shaw’s new Netflix competitor “Movie Club”, a service that would allow you to stream movies without running up your bandwidth meter. I wrote a blogpost that echoed what quickly became the resounding verdict of the internet, Movie Club was anti-net neutrality and therefore, anti-competitive. Shortly… Read more »
Shame on Shaw
The new service, dubbed Movie Club, will cost $12 per month and will allow Shaw customers to watch movies and television shows on their TV and their computers over an Internet connection. However, Shaw said that movies streamed using its own service will not count against a subscriber’s monthly Internet data caps, unlike movies streamed from… Read more »
How To: Tumblr Style Google+ Redirect
Tumblr just added a feature to redirect http://yourdomain.com/+ to your google plus account. Neat idea. You can do it yourself in .htaccess. Just add: Redirect 301 /+ {insert your profile url here} Check it: ohryan.ca/+ Thanks to Isaac Lewis
The Little Things: Techcrunch Header Transition
The header transition on the new Techrunch redesign is pretty brilliant. Another great site by Code & Theory. Start, Middle, End.