Empire Avenue

Errors and Inconsistencies on Empire Avenue

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 12:33am — decibel.places

Social Networking sites like Empire Avenue are fantastic - but often they #fail in their UI/UX. I collect and report foibles on LinkedIn and Google+ already. Here are some on Empire Avenue (bet you saw this coming!)

Negative Mission Rewards Remaining

In my Mission Dashboard, one mission has been fully claimed with twenty completions. However, instead of showing 0 remaining rewards, it shows -20

Thou Shalt Not Direct Message Bot On Twitter

Tue, 06/12/2012 - 10:29pm — decibel.places

I hadn't thought much about this - but when I followed the New York Civil Liberties Union after reading about their "Stop & Frisk" mobile app, there was the DM, with a link to their Facebook page.

Thanks to Sean R. Nicholson aka @SocMedSean

one of my Empire Avenue Investments

Google Gets Off Prematurely On My Flying F*ck Tweet

Sun, 04/29/2012 - 8:10pm — decibel.places

Earlier today I tweeted about the Flying F*ck you can buy on Amazon:

I also posted it to my status on Empire Avenue; curious if that site is indexed, I searched for it and found this result on my web site purportedly from 3 days ago:

Buy it here:

Empire Avenue: a social game, a community and ?

Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:10pm — decibel.places

I joined Empire Avenue yesterday because Chris Pirillo (e)Pirillo recommended it on Google+ for people who already use social networks to promote themselves and their businesses.

It's kind of fun, investing virtual scrip (eaves) in other people and getting invested in and meeting new people. It could easily become an obsession, there the obsessed are stars, not trolls.

It connects with your activity and network on Twitter, Facebook, foursquare, LinkedIn, Instagram, Flickr, G+ etc.

I also added this blog there, so here's the code to promote my RSS feed to an offical Blog on Empire Avenue: {EAV:7b7cbef88863e3fa}