News came out this week that the FTC might be going after Amazon for misleading subscription and billing behavior’s as well as other things. I did not give it much thought until I received an marketing email about my prime video subscription. Looking at the new streaming options available and included with my prime subscription I noticed the new Flash movie was advertised as “Included”, see the content that was provide to me:

Now as you can see it states that the movie is included. I pay for the subscription so I thought what the hell I will stream it while writing some code. I head over to the prime video website and look for the Flash movie and low and behold it is there, but …. only if I rent the movie. So no its not included and this marketing email is clearly a mistruth.

What are your thoughts? is this deceptive? No where on the marketing email did it state that there was an additional charge.

Wow, cannot believe how time has flown by. The last time I posted was in 2016. Crazy eh! You would think I would be more active on this site. Alas it fell to the way side as life was lived, customer served and other important aspects of life took precedence.

Well I am back, and now will be more active on my blogging. More for this to be a journal of my journey moving forward. Technology has changed and we are moving into a new world. One where AI is the new secret sauce companies are adopting to automate, connect, learn and scale their businesses. BITtelligent is no different in the need to consume AI. As a small company AI allows for the possibilities of enhancing the development and support processes. It has never been more possible for solo-entrepreneurs to create and deliver their ideas then ever before. I am excited with this future, and a little nervous but the fact is you need to embrace AI in your practice if you want to compete. If you do not you will be left by the wayside.

In the past I have provided services for many CRM companies. Providing integration tools, platform development toolchains, client side application such as XBar for Infor CRM and Act! Outlook Connector for two wonderful companies out of Arizona. I have also been a partner in CRM platforms and created 100’s if not 1000’s of customizations spanning businesses from Banking, Remediation Services, Auto Tooling, Paper Manufactures, Retail as well as so many others. To say I have been exposed to so many different types of businesses and have had a hand in their automation would be an understatement of the blessings I have had in my career.

Now I am excited with the new technology stacks that are evolving in front of out eyes. I am interested in several platform tool chains that still stay within my knowledge wheelhouse. First I am really loving what is going on in the Blazor.net community, and also when looking at multiplatform mobile targeting I feel that .Net Maui would greatly enhance any development services I can offer to my current and future clients.

No I am currently not working with any CRM company directly in their development tooling, or clients and I have a headful of ideas and experience. I also need to get deep into both Blazor and Maui so I have decided to go on a development quest. On this journey I will be creating a new CRM application, with development experience, an Outlook extension, and a mobile client. I will be using Blazor, Maui, Entity Framework, WebApi, and a ton of nuget packages to round out any functionality. From a UI framework I will utilize Developer Express components to add a professional richness. As I continue on this journey if I add to the tooling I require I will document those adds in this blog.

Hopefully I will be able to setup a site, and downloads as I am developing the platform to allow for people to play with the client and provide feedback. Who knows at the end of this journey maybe I might be in a position to make a business out of selling and supporting the platform. Time will only tell.

Enough for this post, glad to be back and please come back often as I will be far more active then before.

Cheers