On January 20th from 4:00 to 9:30 ATDC is proud to be the host sponsor of CloudCamp Atlanta. CloudCamp is an unconference where attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies. The big driver behind CloudCamp Atlanta is John Willis […]
Continue reading →It's been way too long between blog posts for me. It's not that I don't have things to write about. I do. I have just been too busy. One of the things that I have been busy with is helping out with Skribit. Well Georgia Tech announced today that Paul Stamatiou is going to be […]
Continue reading →ATDC is the host sponsor of BarCamp Atlanta 2, which essentially means I am spending the better part of the weekend with about 95 geeks and 5 geekettes. Those that follow me on Twitter know that I used the service to crowdsource my presentation. I got the concept from a presentation that Chris Winfield created […]
Continue reading →Last week I delved a bit into the concept of business clusters and made a promise to address the subject of how a stronger consumer technology cluster may emerge in Atlanta. In the post last week I spent a lot of time focusing on one of Michael Porter’s key findings in cluster development, that anchor […]
Continue reading →Last week I posted an article highlighting consumer technology startups in Atlanta with a promise to explain why not many of them make it big. Here is that explanation. It stems from the work of Michael Porter. Porter is the preeminent scholar of our time on the subject of business strategy and competitiveness. If you […]
Continue reading →Big day for Purewire. Today they announced $2 million in funding, Tom Noonan joined their Board of Directors, and the general availability of the Purewire Web Security Service. The Purewire team quietly formed about nine months ago and began working on their concept. They announced the formation of the company in May. And now today. […]
Continue reading →I love Piedmont Park. It truly is the gem of Atlanta. Pre kids spent lots of time there. Not so much in the last eight years. But that is changing. Not too long ago I met with Jim Moore and Norman McKay of the Piedmont Park Conservancy. The Conservancy is the nonprofit organization, working with […]
Continue reading →ATM Direct, led by Nandan Sheth, the co-founder and COO of Harbor Payments, is the winner of the 2008 GRA/TAG Business Launch Competition. ATM Direct seeks to become the leading alternative payments provider with a platform technology that enables PIN debit payments on the Internet. $100,000 in cash. $200,000 in services. Cha-Ching! ATM was selected […]
Continue reading →I got a request to write up a article on SoCon via the Skribit app in my sidebar. It was quickly voted up so you folks must want to know what went on. Truth be told, I did not spend a lot of time at SoCon. I went to the networking dinner on Friday night […]
Continue reading →"Web services don’t get better under the ownership of big companies. They get worse." Fred Wilson
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