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Entries from July 2007

Facebook is Down! (Now people can get back to work)

July 31st, 2007 · No Comments

All sorts of blog posts about this apparently significant outage:
Suggestions of hacking - http://strennery.wordpress.com/
Bemused cynicism - http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/
Sympathy - http://mashable.com/

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Tags: Global · Just for Fun

Mid-Atlantic Money Keeps Flowing

July 31st, 2007 · No Comments

A survey by the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA) shows optimism in the Venture Capital community. The report stresses the outlook for the near to mid-term, rather then the current situation, which is a slightly different tack than most VC reports take. However you spin it, things look pretty healthy in the Mid-Atlantic economy […]

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Tags: North Carolina · RTP · Venture Capital

Alexa adds Firefox toolbar - Officially

July 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Alexa adds Firefox toolbar - Officially. This should change the Alexa rankings of a lot of significant sites, as no one I know still uses IE unless they have to. I had been using the unofficial search status add-on for some time, which worked great, but I’ve added sparky anyway, just to make […]

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Tags: Global

Remeber the N-Gage?

July 24th, 2007 · No Comments

Before we had the iPhone, Nokia showed us their vision of the future: Digital Tacos.
I find it interesting to think of what would have happened if different technologies had taken off, and we were all using the N-Gage instead of lusting after iPhones. It’s funny to me that many of the criticisms of the […]

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Tags: Just for Fun

Business 2.0 Becomes Net’s latest casualty… Where does it end?

July 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

With the news this week that Business 2.0 may be shutting its doors after the September issue the tech community is starting to feel for the fortunes of the old guard of Print Publishers (Yes, in the tech community a 7 year old publication counts as the “old guard”). In these heady days of […]

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Tags: Global · Google · Media · Entrepreneur · Blogging

BarCamp Date Announced

July 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Another link quickie today:
BarCamp in Durham is ready to go once again. It will take place at the Red Hat Campus on August 4th.

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Tags: North Carolina · RTP

iContact Makes some noise

July 5th, 2007 · No Comments

I don’t have time for an in depth look at this one, but here’s a good article from Red Herring about the

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Tags: North Carolina · RTP · Tech