Skribit Widget Live!

I finally had enough free time to get the Skribit widget in FoG.  At the moment it is to the right about half way down the page.   You can now submit ideas that you would like to see me write about. Not real happy with the way that it is fitting into TypePad at the […]

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November 14, 2007  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Web/Tech

Skribit Widget

If you want to see how the Skribit widget works mosey on over to Startup South where you can see the widget embedded in the right sidebar. We made this widget because one of the biggest problems bloggers face is what should they write about?  Often times the best topics come from readers via email […]

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November 12, 2007  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Web/Tech

Friends Don’t Spam Friends

Yesterday Facebook made their big announcement about their advertising platform.  Facebook is selling ads that display people’s profile photos next to commercial messages that are shown to their friends about items they purchased, voiced an opinion about, or perhaps a FB app that is itself an advertising play. According to The New York Times  Facebook […]

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November 7, 2007  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Internet, Marketing, Web/Tech

Email Me

I don’t like Facebook messaging.  It’s really an annoying process.  I get an email telling me there’s a message waiting for me at Facebook.  I have to click a link, go to Facebook to read the message and reply.  It’s a two step process.  Good old email is a one step process that is much […]

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October 23, 2007  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Web/Tech

Best Seat in the House

A long, long time ago in a place not so far away, Catalyst Magazine used to have a series where they would interview a prominent Atlanta technology person.  One of the questions they routinely asked was “What’s the best seat in Atlanta?”  The most excellent answer ever award goes to Kathy Harris of Noro Moseley […]

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October 16, 2007  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Accelerators, atdc, Personal, Web/Tech

Virtual World Use

I met Melanie Leeth of Imlay at an Atlanta Technology Angels event.  I learned a lot about Imlay that I did not know.  But more importantly, we had one of  those great uplifting energizing conversations that you have every so often.  Melanie has great cognition of the Internet space and we talked about some potential […]

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September 12, 2007  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Internet, Web/Tech

User Data Freedom

I have been thinking about this for awhile and during a little run this morning I reached the conclusion that, like information before it, user generated content wants to be free on the Internet. Not free as does not cost you anything. Free to move. From one social network or communication media to another unbounded. […]

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September 5, 2007  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Internet, Web/Tech

EarthLink Departed

The expected announcement of layoffs happened at EarthLink yesterday.  My estimate on the cuts turned out to be a little conservative.  I have relationships with the lots of folks over there and they constitute a good share of readers of FoG.  With that in mind, here are ten tips about life after EarthLink. 1.  There […]

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August 29, 2007  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Personal, Web/Tech

Atlanta’s Most Popular Blogger

Is a 21 year old computational media student at Georgia Tech.  His name is Paul Stamatiou and here is his blog.  Paul currently ranks 80 on Technorati.  For all I know he might be the most popular blogger in all the Southeast.  I have run into Paul online a bit, his feed was in my […]

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August 27, 2007  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Web/Tech

Media Shift

This morning began like most others at the house of Weatherby. Me getting up before everyone else, going through the overnight mail, reading RSS headlines, going out and getting the paper. Finding the iJustine 300 page iBill whirlwind the lead story in the business section of the AJC. And somewhere along the line it dawned […]

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August 16, 2007  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Web/Tech