Last night was the third meeting of the Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs, a Meetup group that I started this past December. Although the first two meetings in January and February were “just getting started” outings, this was the first event that made me think “Hey, we can really pull off something great here!” And that is …
I’m going to Podcamp Atlanta!
Well, yes as I’ve already said, I’m not a super-timely blogger. I should have blogged this long ago, but ah well. Anyway, Amber Rhea of The Georgia Podcast Network organized a Podcamp here in Atlanta for this weekend March 16-18 2007 at Emory University. An as of yesterday when I asked, Amber said that she …
Energy in Atlanta: Finally at SoCon07!
I’ve never really blogged before about Atlanta because (except for this) I’ve never felt there was much interesting happening here, at least not from the perspective of things that interest me to blog about. But that’s finally changing! I’ve been in Atlanta for most of my life, and my professional career has spanned exactly 20 …
Mike Gunderloy gets fed up with Microsoft
A Fresh Cup Ok, for those who have been keeping up with Mike Gunderloy this is old news but I just ran across it. Mike is one of the most prolific writer/developers I know and one of those rare breed that can evidently learn new technologies in no time flat. Mike has been working with …
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OpenDNS to Force Improved DNS Standard?
So I was reading Hanselman and came across his OpenDNS post. I’d not heard of it, but evidently it is a free service comprised of a network of ‘smart’ DNS servers that can correct spelling errors (i.e. convert craigslist.ogr to craigslist.org) and provide warnings when users attempt to go to a phishing sites. Cool! Reading …
Buzzwords
They say people can’t understand an abstract concept unless they have language to describe it. For example, because Tahitians don’t have a word for sadness they think of sadness as they would a physical illness. As we are immersed in a world of rapid change we need many new words to describe previously unidentified concepts. …
Camtasia Studio’s Huge Missed Opportunity
Jon Udel is a big fan of using screencasts to instruct, and I’m a big fan of watching them when I want to learn something. I’d like to start doing some of my own. However, reading his post on screencasting tips today, I was reminded of how I can’t help but think that TechSmith is really …
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About “Five Not-So-Easy Steps to Save Microsoft”
While I’m not in the habit of link blogging, Jason Kolb blogged a similar take to my recent themes about Microsoft entitled Five Not-So-Easy Steps to Save Microsoft. Jason starts with: Let me stick a disclaimer on the front of this post: I cut my teeth on Microsoft technology and have been a big supporter …
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No Purchase Required; It’s the Law!
I normally write about programming and Internet technologies, so this post about marketing and the law is a bit out of left field. But since I’ve had to consider the issue many times while running my prior company, and many of my readers are small business entrepreneurs, I thought this topic might be helpful. If …
My Amazon aStore
Amazon recently came up with a really simple idea for their associates but one that is so obvious I’m surprised they hadn’t thought of it before. Basically they let their associates specify a list of products and then they generate a mini-store for them. They call these mini-stores an "aStore." Amazon even provides a clean …