Early this morning (23rd May 2011) GMT the time servers we sync our servers to decided to report an invalid time and rolled back all our servers by 20 hours to May 22. During that time a rogue script kept changing share prices crazily for about 30 mins. We fixed the situation once we were [...]
Read more →As I’m sure you’ve noticed, it’s been a busy month for us here at Empire Avenue HQ. In the last little we’ve been busy introducing new features, moving to a new support system, and improving the experience for our growing user base by tweaking and improving our servers. But wait, there’s more! And, while we’ve [...]
Read more →Empire Avenue is definitely not our first online community. It is also not the first online community that we have met offline. Personally, I’ve met the great fans of BioWare, and then there was my stint as North America’s Community “Manager” for Open Source database developer MySQL. During that last stint, I convinced my then-boss [...]
Read more →This was actually written by our intrepid CEO, Dups. But he’s not awake yet, so I’m posting! —— Buzz words are the lifeblood of the Internet. We have “Web 2.0″, the “Cloud” and now the mot-du-jour is “Gamification.” Running Empire Avenue, which seeks to make a game out of all that you do online, we [...]
Read more →Over the last few weeks, we’ve been busy bringing over popular features from our Facebook app into the main site, including the Profile bar where you get to see a combination of Recent Shareholders, Recommended & Trending users. (Since we had the question what “Trending” meant today… Trending are those people being bought heavily on [...]
Read more →Yes folks, it’s out. I could give you a long soliloquy on the Empire Avenue experience on Facebook, but why don’t you go and give it a try? Okay, so you want some more details? You can get the same core experience of Empire Avenue in a very cool, integrated and good-looking Facebook application. Some [...]
Read more →We’re cranking things into high gear on the release front. We’ll have an announcement of lots of things tomorrow, most of which are part of a migration of features that people have really liked on Empire Avenue on Facebook. Chat We’ve had this trialled on the site for the last week or so, but today [...]
Read more →Life can get very busy, and I am currently inundated with requests from all angles. Between Empire Avenue, the company I run, and general life, it’s not unusual for me to respond to several hundred e-mails, chat messages, Facebook posts and Twitter messages a day. That’s on a good day, and that doesn’t include support [...]
Read more →It’s that time of year again… no, no, not the day you get totally wasted (but yes, also that day)… I’m talking about March Madness! For fans of college hoops or, more generally, the existence of colleges and universities, it’s the time to wear your team’s colours and cheer on a bunch of young adults [...]
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