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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-30

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  • @colinake @mmealling that's what you get when your space company wins all sorts of prizes. #
  • Canon Guy, Nikon Girl music video. http://bit.ly/7jTlfi I'm a Canon / Sony guy #
  • Seems as though @jen_bonnett affects which side of the office is the quiet side in reply to jen_bonnett #
  • @sanjay, used to run a server with a bonded 144k and adsl connection, can really help when you have many connections #
  • Bracketology, Who is the Best Simpson's Character, Vote on it http://todaysbracket.com Beta test #
  • Try "Who is the best Simpsons Character" – 1hr Matchups http://todaysbracket.com @mahoneyone @brendellya @gtryan @bmwales66 #
  • Tonight #house is my explanation for why I seldom wear my glasses, it makes the perceivable edges of reality softer. #
  • Win a new Macbook Pro on Cyber Monday 2009. Details here: http://bit.ly/29rFES #
  • @glengordon, make sure you call, a lot of times banks will undo fees if you pay quickly and suggest it's a limited thing #
  • @courtenaybird http://pic.gd/936f96 Courtenay found vampire ash in atlanta. #
  • Other than adding a feature that I couldn't see break because of a typo, last night's TodaysBracket.com went alright. #
  • Congress's new education goal will be teaching people to use BCC on emails @pfreet in reply to pfreet #
  • Reminder: Set up my vm box on my netbook to duplicate my server to prep for no internet in Nowhereville, GA #
  • A little overly happy that I called the market today at 12pm last night. – Minor movement to the downside, look for bets on black fri 2morro #
  • News reported that 1 child in US dies a month from toys. If only 1% of car deaths are children, 30x more die directly from car crashes.#rela #
  • @pauljudge this is me getting at you about Atlanta Jobs. Purewire Acquired by Barracuda.com #
  • One of these is Joshua Nesbitt the other is Tim Tebow http://bit.ly/8FWD0z #GT #GTfootball – also, I got an email from Paul Johnson #
  • So 26 hours ago, I said that the market would be down slightly Tues and up big for blck Friday bets on Wednesday. Futures are up 0.50% #
  • Upgrading Virtualbox , most excited about:: GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window #
  • Gma surprised me that she got dsl. Trying to update her computer, but apparently nothing runs on Windows ME now – like pdf sw to prnt rebate #
  • @colinake install linux :-P #
  • Just drove 40 miles to a theatre in Valdosta, GA to watch The Blind Side. It was great! I want to play football again. #theblindside #monw #
  • Picking up "puppy" in the morning. My ultimate goal, teach her to use a toilet. There's an ehow. #
  • Gameday! What's the good word? Go Jackets! Kickoff at 8pm. #rivalryweekend #gt #
  • If you kick the ball to CJ Spiller, he as a 20% chance of returning it for a touchdown. #
  • At the #gt #uga game. Go bjackets 7 min left #
  • Despite #gt losing, that 3 second timeout thoroughly entertained #
  • Did mark watch the fsu tape? #gt can play td to td football #
  • #gt runners and receivers are stiff arming hard. Just turned -5 into 15 yards. #
  • 3 minutes 1 td game. Both teams have scored in 1 play. #rivalryweekend #gt #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-22

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  • considering lunch in midtown, anybody up for Firehouse, the sub shop on peachtree, or some other relatively unique sandwich shop? #
  • Sean Hannity just had two panelists agree with him that Sarah Palin would be a better President than Barack Obama. #ihatefox #
  • @hkmr every student sees ibank as lots of money- worst many wannabes don't understand balance sheets, working hard, or working long #
  • @kelebaker dm me the time and I will try to join you. Long exposure photographs for metors! #
  • Thanks @courtenaybird, I'm watching #w2e in NYC from Atlanta at http://tv.web2expo.com/ #
  • Don't be that guy, think of the children – on your social networks @caterina at #w2e #
  • @jesspanda You aren't going to use the Ukranian Framework for momocon registration? #
  • @Stammy I would use varchar(6) but mysql says use string see http://bit.ly/2cM9ms in reply to Stammy #
  • I found my /home/ directory after nearly a day (almost went to the backups) apparently I forgot to escape a ~ #
  • Watching the google chrome os webcast http://bit.ly/GdSUZ hosted by shareholder.com who seems to not support linux. chuckle #
  • @chambersdavid but can you sell options on 100x leveraged etfs :-) #
  • @kbernard GA senator sees borders with SC and Alas fuzzy.ATL, Moultrie, and Mountains.We don't hv rivers, lake, swamp? http://tiny.cc/RXUCP #
  • Options expiration day means I get to pocket the cash from the calls that I sold. Woot. #
  • This is bothersome economically RT @davidatl Ga's largest companies have piled up $38B in cash. Whats up? http://tinyurl.com/y8vtfqu #
  • @mahoneyone Solar to AC (evs) is less lossy than hydrogen. James Maye's Big Ideas 3 (on bbc) covers solar cellulose ethanol production ideas #
  • Putting new water and apex seals in my wankel rotary engine has my hands covered in vaseline. I have to wait on JB weld to cure too :-( #
  • http://twitpic.com/qbzhe – Starting to put the wankel rotary back together. Front is chugging. Rear is too tight. #
  • @Stammy, Zaxbys is not the same as chick-fil-a! Zax sauce on wings and fingers yummy. Also, raising canes in athens is better. #
  • Upset alert #lsu about to lose to #olemiss crazy. allows. Clears out more of the top 10 for acc teams #
  • More bank failures have occurred each month Jul-Oct 2009 than occurred monthly Oct 08- june 09 http://fdic.gov #

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Microsoft Incubation Week Review

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As I mentioned, I was really busy last week with the Windows Azure Incubation week held at Microsoft in Alpharetta.  The event was a week long event from Monday until Friday.

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The first major surprise that we learned was that the Microsoft people wanted us to use ASP.net coding and not use the offshore development team (Thank You Dmytro@  Soft Serve) for primary development.

The project that I worked on was Chris Stuckey\’s FandomU, a social networking site focusing on conventions, fans, and vendors to extend the connections you make at the actual event.  Hopefully FandomU will be able to launch with the MomoCon Japanese Anime convention in March 2009.

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The week was quite the experience. Microsoft brought in a handful of advisors and consultants to teach us about the Azure platform and (particularly for us) to use Asp.net technologies.  Jeremy Likness from Wintellect taught me the basic asp.net connections between the ASP and C#.

Here is the front page of our part of our prototype site, in the 4 days that we had to develop, we developed a few key features, registration, the beginnings to shopping, and the introduction to an idea of things like sharing images and videos on the cloud.

In addition to knowledge, Microsoft provided a great overall experience. We had nice co-working space with brand new \”beta\” style windows 7 computers at the MTC.  We had 3 meals provided 5 days of the week, and not just fast food pizza, but some pretty classy changes including Indian and Thai food.

Thursday, Microsoft spokesman Larry Gregory came and introduced us to all of the great features that Microsoft offers to entrepreneurs and startups. They have a lot of features that I\’m sure will be great. We also did an interview regarding our progress that will be posted on Channel 9 – spoiler: I somewhat

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Speakers came in throughout the week, and on Friday, these speakers, and other startup voices in Atlanta sat as a judging panel for all of the startups. This was really valuable, as we all got a chance to practice our pitching abilities.

Because we sucked up more than a little to Larry Gregory by mentioning that we could expand from a conference like Momo Con to others like Dragon Con, or his interests like Farscape and Motorcyles, he presented us with our \”incubation\” week diploma.

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My group thought that the week would be more about coaching and less about technology, along with better planning for working with the offshore team as opposed  to us needing to be incredibly familiar with Microsoft products. It was slightly awkward to find that only 3 of 7 companies there had only just reached an idea and planning it out.

I\’ll post later about some of the teams that I met.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-15

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  • 7 companies here at Azure #mbiwk – LessMeeting sounds great. FandomU has a lot to plan and accomplish. #
  • @stephenfleming @colinake you guys are making me color blind. #
  • @chadbrooks just made a tiny "webserver" using ISP classes in #MBIWK #
  • thinking about doing some extremely rapid prototyping. Jury duty tomorrow is most inconvenient #
  • @jeremylikness just gave me a crash course to ASP.Net that worked with my coding style. Having fun at #mbiwk @sanjayjain369 @sanjay next! #
  • #mbiwk progresses, learning this ASP.NET stuff is easier with resources abounding here. Azure Server has tables thanks to me. #
  • Decided to go a little off of the expected map with a lot of development at #mbiweek #
  • Taught @thedominion that SQL Azure can do simple arithmetic like Select 5+5 #mbiwk #
  • @dominion advises entrepreneurs, when you have an idea, try it. #mbiwk I spat MSFT Marketing Re: Php #
  • @Gomeler AMD is winning the processing capabilities per watt factor, but I hope they will manu small more quickly ps. RISC in reply to Gomeler #
  • Presentation day at #mbiwk a little sad that we won't be able to watch the others. @RyanParsley @thedominion made a ton of progress #
  • @mikeschinkel #mbiwk presentations could be shorter and a ready-made deck for switchover like @startupriot @sanjay would solve net issue. in reply to mikeschinkel #
  • Just introduced @eyemailinc to twitter #
  • http://twitpic.com/pd8tj – Meeting other entrepreneurs in Atlanta. collaborative effort. #mbiwk #
  • @mikeschinkel Can you do a higher res on the whiteboard so that I can cheat away anxiety? to more success at #MBIWK #
  • I haven't heard many pitches, but I like Jen's expenseTrack.com so far #asw3 #
  • @mahoneyone sounds like fun, reminds me of that time colin wanted to piss off @pfreet via twitter @ sob #
  • @ajaimk nice way to mix up the pitch thing #
  • @stephenfleming – idea just pitched to help you timeshare your tickets back and forth to @lance #
  • trying to decide between emo/moody tweets, findafounder, and bracketology #
  • You want people to complain about the results @mahoneyone bracketology #asw3 #
  • @mahoneyone bracketology is taken with nothing on it, new name? #
  • @marnafriedman what do you need db and session mgt for? dm me #
  • this presentation for music at #asw3 is like Colbert Report's "Word" #
  • @RexSilex I'm the guy who pitched the real estate thing. #
  • @stammy – there has definitely been a bad travolta movie : battlefield earth, wild hogs (172), Broken Arrow to name a few #
  • Maybe more. RT @lance We still have 9 active projects at #asw3. Perhaps 4 will launch this evening #
  • @sanjay Re: Startup Voting – our #asw3 bracketology project could provide some fun with that in reply to sanjay #
  • Seeing the dynamics changing around #asw3, it's crazy how ideas and people change in 2 days. #
  • I'm joining touchdown nation #asw3 on facebook #
  • Xpensetrack, touchown nation, gomodo, and today's bracket, fakewhale, moodytweets — that's more than 4 @lance #
  • Looks like FakeWhale is going to take it home at @todaysbracket #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-08

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  • will not make it to #sob I get to hang out with nephews and brother instead #
  • Helping bro out in new house. Just hid HD antenna cable. Now trying a small linux on a 233mhz #
  • @stammy, at least your hosting will try REALLY hard to not have a failure over the next YEAR #
  • Exploring the facebook developer features and amazed at the implications could be great for FandomU on Win Azure and #starvingfree lancers #
  • Atlanta is #1… Most Toxic City. http://tinyurl.com/yzw6l6x #
  • FML, I've managed to cause drastic harm to my car a month ago, and my dad's (borrowing) tonight #
  • Fixed a broken cv joint in the car in 1 day. The 5 mile ride back from the parts store is more difficult with a 50lb part in hands. #
  • @skalnik The beard is all itchy! Must resist urges to shave. #
  • @sanjay In theory, the ssd would give you great seek times and the hd great write times. You might need to edit some software raid code. in reply to sanjay #
  • Fun developing more ideas for FandomU for #mbiwk @ bizspark, getting ready to have a great time developing a startup project #
  • Too much shake rattle and roll at #gt #sixflags night.\\ #
  • Finally registered for #asw3 today. Start a startup in the next week! http://bit.ly/as5v3 #
  • A freshman on the #clemson intercepted and tried a hook and ladder throw that missed target, but was then run for 30 more yards. #cu #
  • My middle school team kicker is better than the #clemson kicker he has missed like 4 kicks. #
  • Should I program an email confirmation section or just accept facebook/twitter sign ins to verify a real account. #php #webdev #MBIWK #
  • I will be missing SOB again tomorrow @mmealing @colinake @stephenfleming @ajaimk but look forward to hearing about #mbiwk next week. #
  • @Stammy Iloveguaco.com, iloveguacomole, guacomolelover.com, choppedavocado.com are available. Start It. in reply to Stammy #

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