Tech Town, NC

Along with the rest of the blogosphere I’m well aware of the good fortune$ of micro-blogging startup Jaiku, and its recent acquisition by Google, so when a press release landed in my inbox today for something called “Joiku,” it caught my eye. The rather odd copy reads thusly:
“Joikusoft Oy Ltd. today announces Joiku.com, a […]

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Mooresville-based Lulu Press announced last week that they will now help authors publish their works in ebook form to be consumed by the most cutting edge literati among us. The new service, called “eBook Optimization,” allows formatting of a high quality PDF to be read on either an iPhone or the much less heralded […]

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TechJournal South is hosting their Triangle area get together next week on Thursday October 18th from 5:30-9:30 at the Durham Centre Building.
The event draws a few hundred members of the information technology and biotechnology sectors. The crowd tends to be a good mix of people involved with web technology, biotech, and some […]

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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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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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