Tech Town, NC

Economics, apparently. Even as Chapel Hill activates wi-fi hotspots downtown this month, there is a disturbing trend of failed Muni wi-fi networks in larger cities. Slate is running an excellent analysis of the problems many cities are encountering in their utopian pursuits of free city-wide wi-fi access. The article illustrates how economic […]

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Jason Caplain of Southern Capitol Ventures is being kind enough to host another Meet a VC Day this Friday, September 28th. The event offers entrepreneurs the chance to sit down for a 15 minute meeting with both a VC, Jason, and a successful entrepreneur, ChannelAdvisor’s Scot Wingo. The meetings will be held at […]

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The social entrepreneur meetup this past Thursday was another success, featuring some presentations and an even broader array of attendees. This meetup was officially the seventh get together organized by Ryan Allis and the iContact crew, and they really seem to be building something worthwhile.
The presenters represented both the social activist side […]

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It’s that time again. Time to hang out with some of the most ambitious, intelligent, successful, fun, and lively people in the Triangle area, and try to somehow make them think I’m just like them.
From the writeup on Ryan’s blog it looks like this one should be the most interesting yet, with […]

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TechCrunch reports that Hulu has acquired Beijing-based video sharing site Mojiti.com. Not much has been written about Mojiti, which, just for references’ sake, has an Alexa ranking of 108,289 at the moment, so this acquisition is a bit of a surprise/out of left field.
So why Mojiti? The selling point of Mojiti, as far […]

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This report from the NY Times does the (dis)service of bringing Adblock Plus into the mainstream, informing all the Mom & Dad internet users out there that they can block advertising on any website. The article itself presents somewhat of a paradox, in that it is reporting on Adblock as a “niche” add-on for […]

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Michael Arrington and Ted Murphy, of TechCrunch and PayPerPost, respectively, are engaged in another round of finger-pointing publicity. The post that started today’s debate can be found here .
Mike, as is well known, thinks PayPerPost is a corrupting force in the blogging community, warping the will of the (arguably) noble blogger. Mike is […]

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Raleigh-based Real Cities Network announced on Tuesday it will sell online advertising for an additional 51 newspapers owned by the Media News Group, adding to the 31 MNG newspapers already represented by Real Cities. With this agreement Real Cities now sells ads for all 82 newspaper website operated by the Media News Group.
This agreement […]

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