2012 Summer Olympics: Our Plans

We are less then 6 months away from the 2012 London Summer Olympics, and Magnae Famae is starting to make plans for their

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coverage.

Currently the official plans are confidential, but this is what it basically looks like for now:

Austin MacPherson plans to do a review of the London 2012 Opening and Closing Ceremonies, and also cover a few sports.

Kyle Stewart will be live-blogging the Opening and Closing Ceremonies on Magnae Famae Live. He also may cover a few major sports and coverage leading up to the games.

A Magnae Famae: Unofficial Olympic Coverage HQ logo is in the works as well, by the DEV Team.

Your FAQ is expected to have officially launched by then and will do minor coverage leading up to the Olympics, and also do Olympic History. Your FAQ is also considering to do Sport History as well.

Enjoy the games!

SOPA: Our Position

Today, January 18th, 2012  has been a history-making day on protest against two bill going through both American legislation and Senate. Magnae Famae has taken a stand on this bill, but it’s owning organization, Tripletech Ideas has not made clear it’s position on these bills.

So, Tripletech Ideas Public Relations has put together our official position on SOPA and PIPA, below.

THE OFFICIAL POSITION OF TRIPLETECH IDEAS ON SOPA/PIPA

1) Tripletech Ideas is an unregistered Canadian not-for-profit organization.

2) We, as a not-for-profit organization feel that SOPA and PIPA will “ruin the internet as we know it worldwide.”

3) We feel that the World Wide Web (WWW hereafter) is not owned by any organization, or Government but is all owned by the content creators and by the consumers. The consumers meaning the people who use the WWW are all part-owners of the WWW. We feel that every person has a say in what Governments do to the WWW. Be it only in their own country or worldwide. Therefore, we feel that in order for this bill to pass Governement a majority of American citizens must be OK with this bill passing.

4) These bills will ruin the WWW, Tripletech Ideas Projects like the popular Magnae Famae and yourfaq, technically violate copyright laws almost every week. So do many other websites like CNET, CBC, The Verge etc. This would almost definitely cause lawsuits (which we can’t afford) and also cause our projects to be ‘blacked out’.

5) Acording to our Annual Reports the majority of our views come from America. We would lose a huge percent of our views if we are ‘blacked out’. It already costs us money to operate all of these projects. If we lose our biggest source of views, we almost certainly cannot continue. This would be the same for many other organizations and companies like Facebook, Twitter etc.

Conclusion) If these bills were to pass, we almost certainly would begin losing even more money then we already are. We would not be able to continue. Our position on SOPA/PIPA is opposing. We 100% oppose SOPA and PIPA.

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You can learn more about SOPA and PIPA here.

A Year of Magnae Famae

Today, January 8th, 2012 is the one-year anniversary since the Magnae Famae Project (originally No.bilem) began with Luc Moulaison, Sophie Moulaison and Kyle Stewart.

Magnae Famae put together an article they call Magnae Famae: A History… below is an excerpt.

Today is the One-Year Anniversary of the Magnae Famae Project starting. The project was officially launched to the public on January 11th, 2011.

I started off 2011 by working on a Brand new project with Luc and Sophie Moulaison.  At first we called the project No.bilem, but then changed it to Magnae Famae thanks to the guidance of Jane Barter Moulaison. The project would be a news website and would replace the existing Kyle File Blog after Luc made this comment to me:

“…I also think I know one reason why The Kyle File isn’t succeeding very well. Maybe you should rename it. It’s kinda like Mark Zuckerburg calling Facebook “The Mark Book” or Steve Jobs calling the iPod the “The StevePod”. Maybe it isn’t working.”

-Magnae Famae’s Kyle Stewart

You can read the entire article here.

Happy One-Year Anniversary, MF!

Tripletech Ideas Public Relations

Do you have a Project Idea?

We are looking for some Project Ideas for 2012. Our only recommendation is to keep it a free project for our consummers (so no online stores and stuff).

Email your suggestions to us at pitch@magnaefamae.com.

Happy 2012!