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I recently did the unthinkable. I changed the URL structure of my blog’s URLs. Long considered a scary territory, along with moving domains, due to the SEO implications and potential for losing traffic, I was convinced by Bruce Keener to give it a shot. Ever since my blog launched I have been using the domain/year/month/day/post-name URL structure. I thought it was quite handy to know when the post was written before even loading it, but I ended up dealing with very long URLs that got quite annoying. In addition, [click to continue…]

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If you live in Atlanta, you’ll be happy to hear that there’s a new ISP in town. And I’m not talking about just any type of Internet connection. I’m talking about WiMAX (read my Thoughts on WiMAX post). It’s called CLEAR by Clearwire and its launch makes Atlanta the “Fastest Unwired City in the South”. That’s a pretty hefty claim that I’ll have to put to the test later. CLEAR isn’t the first WiMAX provider in the United States – Sprint launched WiMAX under their XOHM brand name in Baltimore last October, and other providers have been helping businesses with WiMAX coverage in major cities as well. But for Atlantans, [click to continue…]

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It has been almost 2 years since the last time I had a significant redesign of this blog. I figured it was time to start tinkering again. Instead of relying on the same blog theme and code base I have been working with for over 3 years now, I decided to use Chris Pearson’s Thesis WordPress theme as my base. For one, Chris Pearson is also a fellow Georgia Tech alumnus. Second, the Thesis theme [click to continue…]

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The other day I was talking with local entrepreneur Sanjay Parekh about a domain I had recently purchased. He commented on how it was rather short and could be also be used as a URL shortening service. That triggered a few responses on my end: 1) I feel that URL shortening services are very much a crowded “me too” space and 2) relatively few URL shorteners provide real benefits other than their primary utility. [click to continue…]

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The title of this post might be a little cryptic to those not familiar with the Apache webserver, but this post is a sort of followup to Paul Buchheit’s recent post “Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step” as well as a response to a recent Skribit suggestion. The step he’s referring to is getting your web server to utilize gzip encoding. [click to continue…]

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The Pirate Bay Founders Headed to Jail

April 17, 2009

The world’s largest and most popular BitTorrent tracker used for finding everything from music to movies and computer applications has always had its share of high-profile legal issues. Despite snags like their 2006 server raid to incessant cease and desists from media companies, The Pirate Bay has always come out fighting, recently hitting a 25 [...]

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Thoughts on Netbooks

April 13, 2009

With all the noise about netbooks over the last 2 years and a Skribit suggestion on the same matter, I think I’m overdue for a post divulging my thoughts on netbooks. First off, what are these so-called netbooks? You’ve no doubt heard the term countless times. It refers to a small, generally affordable (I’m [...]

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First Impressions: BackType Connect WP Plugin

April 9, 2009

BackType is aiming to solve a long-standing problem that reared its face when blogs met new forms social media and news sites. The problem I’m referring to is comment separation anxiety. Comments have feelings too. They don’t like being separated. BackType’s Connect WordPress plugin uses their Connect API to suck in all comments related to [...]

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Review: ImHonest.com Lost and Found Service

April 6, 2009

The year was 2004 and I was 17. I was on a Boeing 747 jumbo jet headed from Houston to Amsterdam on my way to Athens. It was a rather empty flight so I had 4 seats in the middle section all to myself, and naturally I spread out my stuff a bit as I [...]

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Full-time Startup: Skribit Week 12 (Scaling)

April 1, 2009

My last startup update discussed Skribit’s recent redesign and entrance into the GRA/TAG Business Launch competition. Since then a few things have been keeping us busy. For one, we have had more and more server issues. While Skribit doesn’t use much in the way of CPU

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Review: MailChimp (Email Marketing)

March 25, 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 [...]

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Thoughts on SXSWi 2009 from a First Timer

March 20, 2009

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 [...]

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Meet Me at SXSW Interactive 2009

March 12, 2009

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 [...]

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Full-time Startup: Skribit Week 8 (Redesign)

March 2, 2009

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 [...]

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Thoughts on Winning @juliaroy’s Twestival Charity Auction

February 22, 2009

The title of this post might be a little confusing for those not up on their Twitter happenings. First off, Twestival was an event facilitated by Twitter users with parties held in different cities (over 180 cities) around the world on February 12th. The goal of Twestival was to raise money for charity: water. The [...]

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