Not to long ago there was a little chatter about what Atlanta needs to do to become a world-class technology city. My $.02 on the subject was that we needed to see corporate leadership from the tech titans. And I am seeing a little leadership, in to many, an unlikely area. Tomorrow and Thursday Turner, […]
Continue reading →Evoca, a member of ATDC Savannah, just added the ability to record Skype calls into its audio recording platform. While there are some other companies out there that have the same functionality, Evoca is the only company to completely integrate a solution within the Skype client. To get started signup for an Evoca account if […]
Continue reading →The Atlanta Journal reported today that CNN that will start offering its Pipeline service for free starting June 1. CNN had been selling the service for $25/year, $2.95/month, or $.99/day. As CNN is not disclosing subscriber numbers you can assume there were few. The only time they pulled in any sizable numbers were on days […]
Continue reading →Justin Rubner reported this week that the Coca-Cola Company (KO) recently hired the amateur video makers who created the infamous Diet Coke/Mentos spot. They have come a long way since proclaiming “Craziness with Mentos does not fit with the brand personality of Diet Coke.” Here is the video they created.
Continue reading →I went and signed up for a Ziggs account after reading about them in the WSJ. Did not care too much for what I saw after I signed up so I did not complete the profile. This recently showed up in my mailbox: Dear Lance, Ziggs Inc has sent you a $10 gift from Starbucks. […]
Continue reading →When he stated that no one who cares about computers uses a Windows PC. But according to a new study by Forrester Mac users sure do care a lot more about the Internet or more specifically about user generated content on the Internet. From a write up on the report from Jacqui Cheng over at […]
Continue reading →This little surprise showed up today: Dear Lance Weatherby, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN®) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you? Good news. You have been credited $.03/yr for each domain name you registered or renewed dating back to July […]
Continue reading →I started a bit of chatter that led to a bit more in these parts for the need for a Y Combinator in Atlanta. It dawned on me that lots of the FoG faithful may have no idea what this means. On their web site it explains that Y Combinator “is a new kind of venture […]
Continue reading →This bad: From: y-alerts@reply.yahoo.com Date: April 13, 2007 1:04:27 PM EDT To: my email address Apple delays launch of operating system Notice the time date stamp. Apple issued the press release announcing this at 4:30 PM EDT yesterday. It showed up via RSS very, very shortly thereafter. Yahoo! Alerts has over a 20 hour lag […]
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