Yesterday was Shotput’s inaugural demo day. Shotput is one of many Y Combinator style startup accelerator programs. David Cummings and the entire Shotput team worked very hard to select the best capital light Internet startups they could find and coach them over the course of the summer. Eight companies presented at the Technology Square Research […]
Continue reading →Remember Nina. That lady I thought was a god send. She’s a liar too. My wireless modem never showed up on Friday. Gotta give AT&T a little credit though. Mike showed up. I speed tested the AT&T service on Friday morning. Maxed out at 3Mbps. I signed up for 6Mbps. So I had to call […]
Continue reading →I called AT&T to inquire about Internet service pricing last week. They slammed me. I figured this out last night when I got home and there was a package on the porch. Took it inside. Opened it. Saw a DSL modem. Livid. This started 10 days ago. I made an inquiry to AT&T sales. Wanted […]
Continue reading →Like the Secret Sig blog itself this article is written in a manner that attempts to imitate the skewering parody voice Dan Lyons created for Fake Steve Jobs. I have the utmost respect for all the individuals and organizations mentioned below. It is my hope that they all view their inclusion as a sign of […]
Continue reading →This is a guest post by Russell Jurney, a technologist and serial entrepreneur. His new startup, Cloud Stenography, will launch later this year. The article is an extension of a simple question on Twitter asking the importance of Map Reduce. Some subjects take much more than 140 characters. The Technical Situation in Brief The advent […]
Continue reading →FoG has made its way onto Alltop’s Top Startup News (with its humorous “See also Venture Capital and Egos” sub heading). I am quite honored. It’s kinda cool though I don’t think I qualify as one of the cool kids. Alltop is an “online magazine rack” of popular topics. Alltop updates the stories every hour […]
Continue reading →Tonight on 60 Minutes Lesley Stahl will be reporting on computer viruses and botntets that propagate on the Internet and infect PCs, which enable their creators to do all types of evil things via remote command and control. The show airs tonight, should get some good ratings – it’s right after the NCAAs. And if […]
Continue reading →mobicamp will take place on Friday May 29, 2009 from 5-10 pm at Georgia Tech's Advanced Technology Development Center. What is mobicamp you may ask? According to Amro Mousa who is spearheading the event: mobicamp is a new, annual unconference in Atlanta centered around mobile technology and its impact on the day to day […]
Continue reading →You may have heard that Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo, publicly offered $250,000 for two years for one of the top twenty slots of suggested users that Twitter is now offering up as part of its service. Jason's offer was a publicity stunt. A game. He intended to attract media coverage. He is extremely […]
Continue reading →AtlantTech reported today that Twitpay has raised an undisclosed round of funding. Twitpay, the second Startup Weekend Atlanta company to secure seed captial (Skribit being the first), is a simple way to send payments via Twitter. The service is powered on the backend by Amazon Payments. Twitpay went live two weeks ago. Twitpay has been […]
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