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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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If you haven’t caught wind of Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters advertisements by now, well you’re lucky. They’re a series of (hopefully only) six ads meant to take a jab at Apple’s successful “Get A Mac” commercials. So far four of these ads are out and they are based on the premise that some person is looking for a particular computer for their needs within a certain budget. If they find what they’re looking for, Microsoft pays for the computer. True in Microsoft spirit, these commercials are all full of issues. The first ad was filled with controversy after people discovered an actress [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 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 million unique peers milestone. This time, however, the four Pirate Bay founders are headed to jail in what is being called a landmark case. [click to continue…]

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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 your blog post, whether they’re on Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, Hacker News and more. The end result is one big conversation on your blog post. [click to continue…]

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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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Recap: 2009 Georgia Technology Summit

March 4, 2009

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 [...]

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Shotput Ventures to Grow Tech Startups in Atlanta

March 4, 2009

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. [...]

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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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Startup Riot 2009 Recap

February 19, 2009

Startup Riot, a day-long networking and startup pitching event organized by Sanjay Parekh, was held at the Twelve Hotel today and much like the last one, was a huge success. Startup Riot is one of the glimmering examples of the growing startup, tech and entrepreneurship communities in Atlanta. In addition to the larger size of [...]

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Location Sharing: Yay or Nay?

February 9, 2009

The location sharing bubble might have started back in ye olde Loopt days but now everyone is on the bandwagon: Yahoo! with Fire Eagle (Fire Bagel as once internally called by Y! employees), Google with their recently announced Latitude, BrightKite, Whrrl, Groovr, Moximity and bundles of others. Alongside all of these products, there are developer-oriented [...]

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100 Applications and Services I Use Daily

January 29, 2009

Almost a year ago I wrote a now somewhat outdated article titled Startup 101: Tools for the Job. A suggestion on my Skribit account asked me to delve into the software I use on a regular basis, so I decided to put the two together and briefly discuss some of the tools that keep [...]

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TAG Top 40 Gearing Up in Atlanta

January 20, 2009

There aren’t too many notable annual tech events in Atlanta (okay I lied there are all of these and SoCon) but one of the big names is the Technology Association of Georgia’s annual summit and Top 40 competition. The competition selects forty of the most innovative Georgia-based and technology-focused companies. Unlike all of [...]

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Anonymize Your Web Traffic with JanusPA

December 24, 2008

The in-the-works Janus Privacy Adapter is, hands down, the coolest piece of networking hardware I’ve seen (via hackaday) all year. The so-called Privacy Adapter has two RJ45 ethernet jacks and is intended to be placed in-line between your computer and Internet connection. After plugged in and given around 60 seconds to fire up, it [...]

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Review: The Pownce.FM You’ll Never See

December 18, 2008

Note: I wrote this post 7 months ago while the recently acquired and shutdown Pownce was working on a music service. As a big web-based music service user (listening to The Hype Machine right now), I was interested in what Pownce had up their sleeve with this small project called Pownce.FM. Unfortunately, the public will [...]

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