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Let our Powers Combine! TCCa and SDRA join forces with SEDA to provide comprehensive commercial property information on the web

Almost one year ago exactly, we told you all about the Savannah Economic Development Authority’s (SEDA) property search application - how Georgia-based BinaryBus, Ltd. used GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology to help SEDA create an application enabling users to search, map and analyze demographic and business information for available commercial property listings in Chatham County. Last August, the application had been so well-received that it was featured on the ESRI website (THE leader in GIS technology). This August, we have some even more exciting news to report re: the property search.

(Drumroll please.) Together with the Savannah Development and Renewal Authority (SDRA), TCCa has joined forces (”let our powers combine!”) with SEDA to to provide comprehensive commercial property information for local businesses on the web.

Built on top of SEDA’s powerful technology, the new TCCa and SDRA applications will utilize SEDA’s master database, allowing all three organizations to add, update and list property collectively. For example, a downtown property providing information to SDRA will also have the added benefit of being automatically listed on the SEDA and TCCa websites.

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The Day the Moonwalk died. (On Twitter.)

We can’t help but talk about this. Love him, hate him or don’t give a damn, Michael Jackson was one seriously talented dude, writing and producing some of the best music of our generation as well as redefining pop culture and creating a new musical genre.  He achieved a level of fame rarely equaled before or since - people passed out when he came on stage.  That’s some serious adoration.

Still, it’s shocking to see the ripple effect of MJ’s death on social media, the web and our “21st-centurified” life as a whole.   To put the true impact in more tangible terms: Google and Twitter both crashed under the burden of hundreds of millions of web surfing fans of the late pop star.

In the US alone, Google saw 36 of the top 100 searches related to Jackson’s death.  The spike in searches related to Michael Jackson was so big that Google News initially mistook it for an automated attack. As a result, for about 25 minutes, people searching Google News saw a “We’re sorry” page.  Additionally, Google saw one of the largest mobile search spikes ever, with 5 of the top 20 searches about the Moonwalker.


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