From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Before I left for SXSWi I created and sent Skribit’s first email campaign to a subset of our users. There are quite a few email marketing solutions on the market but I went with MailChimp. I didn’t really research any competitors or look elsewhere; MailChimp has a cool logo (great logos go a long way for marketing) and they’re also a local Atlanta startup, so I figured why not. [click to continue…]

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I just got back from Austin, Texas the other day and I’m still recovering. I was in Austin for the famed South By Southwest Interactive Festival. This was my first time. You can describe it as “where San Franciscans go to meet other San Franciscans” or “spring break for web developers” but either way it was still a wow. I think I put it best in one of my tweets midway through SXSW: [click to continue…]

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This year I will finally be attending the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. I’ve always wanted to attend but school has been in the way. SXSW has been called “spring break for web developers” by Valleywag, but it’s essentially a 5 day festival/conference filled with interesting panels at the start of the day and then rounded out with loads of parties and mixers hosted by big names like [click to continue…]

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When I wrote that I couldn’t live without my Vudu box, I already had a Linux HTPC hooked up to my TV and still thought Vudu rocked. Why was that? There was no easy interface for me to work with all of the media files I had on the HTPC. Using a keyboard and mouse to navigate through Nautilus and [click to continue…]

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In January I mentioned that I was invited to come aboard the selection committee for the Technology Association of Georgia’s Top 40 innovative companies competition. As part of the 15-person committee, gave my perspective and thoughts on the applicants as well as provided my evaluation of how each company’s technology was innovative. The month and a half of judging, meeting with applicants, hearing their pitches and providing them presentation feedback wrapped up with today’s Georgia Technology Summit. [click to continue…]

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Shotput Ventures is a new technology startup accelerator fund (some might call it an incubator but technically it’s not since, among other things, the companies don’t work out of the investor’s space) sprouting in Atlanta. Backed by an impressive team of serial entrepreneurs, I think SPV is poised to grow promising tech startups in Atlanta. [click to continue…]

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The last few weeks of working on Skribit have been proved to be rewarding. It’s finally gotten to a point where it’s noticeable that we are making some progress with product development. This past Friday I pushed live the new redesign of Skribit.com. A few weeks ago we hired graphic designer Justin Ruckman to pump out some mockups for the next iteration of the Skribit website design. Justin was already [click to continue…]

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