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Posted by Fitz Haile on August 14, 2008 at 02:28 PM
While Summer is in Chucktown doing the enviro-nerd thing, I thought I’d sneak in with a bit of webnerdery. Plus, it’s always good to lighten the mood after a politically charged 20-bagger (our internal nerd-slang for a post w/ 20 comments).
If you’re anything like me, you suck at email. I’m constantly behind, always cowering from the ever-growing bright-blue bold number next to my “Unread Items” (currently holding steady at 122 baby, yea!) Staring at me like a blinking bomb-timer, I always feel like its a measure of my failure to be productive (and inversely proportional to my stress level.)
Furthermore, the higher the number, the less willing I am to wade into the quicksand, having to employ all sorts of filters, labels and to-do list items that are basically intended to remind me to “do this later.”
Enter HitMeLater (via TechCrunch), a service that allows you forward any email to 24@hitmelater.com and it will send it back to you 24 hours later, putting it on the top of your inbox pile. Whoa! Has God been listening to my late-night prayers and email exhasperations?
Inclusively speaking, Savannah’s got it.
It’s straight up Mendelian fact. (Oglethorpe was a procrastinator, it’s true.)
Luckily, I am a dude that can empathize. (I still haven’t turned in my math homework.)
Due to overwhelming demand (so far more than doubled applications from last year!) and numerous phone calls requesting an “extension”, we’re going to give you eager innovators the rest of the weekend to finish your applications for the 2008 Innovation Awards.
So breathe, sit back and relax.
Honestly, we’re just pumped to see all the enthusiasm. Looks like ya’ll are going to make this a good show…
New Deadline: August 4th, close of bid-ness.
www.thecreativecoast.org/innovation-awards/application
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Since it’s Friday and everyone is feelin’ fine, we thought we’d take the opportunity to throw you a new-company-bone and introduce you to one of Savannah’s newest signage and printing companies: Sign D’Sign Savannah. Sign D’Sign Savannah is operated by the same guys who run Streamline Savannah, Dean Moesch and Coley Mitchell.
We talked to Streamline back when their corporate office in Ohio was considering a move to Savannah. Instead of the move, the two local Savannah boys (Dean and Coley) spun-off and created Streamline Savannah, a full-service business communication company, specializing in marketing, advertising, graphic design, web and interactive services, as well as signage, printing and promotional services. Almost a year later, they’ve done good and have now partnered with the Bluffton signage experts, Sign D’ Sign to create Sign D’Sign Savannah.
Welcome, guys.
P.S. Now that they’ve had a few months in their new diggs to make things purty, they’re sporting a swanky new showroom on Oglethorpe Avenue. Check ‘em out.
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While this is no longer a Savannah company (although it was founded here), I’m letting this one pass since Drew (Odom) is a bud and did a bunch for the whole Savannah blogging community (founded blogsavannah.com and BlogSavannah UnCon).
While we wish it wasn’t so, Drew went off to (mis)adventures in NYC and is working with Diego Orjuela (formerly of Evoca) with a company called MinuteFix.
At any rate, they will be launching new functionality that features a partnership with Skype and are looking for beta testers before final release. If you don’t know what a “beta tester” is, it’s basically somebody who volunteers to try out the service/product before its public to see how/if it works (or doesn’t) in a live, “real life” environment. I always look at it like this: It’s always fun to try and break stuff.
From Drew’s email:
Ok, so this is totally off (Savannah) topic, but I don’t care. I need to get something off my chest. (Plus, I promised Lucas I’d write a geeky post once in awhile.)
The thing is, I hate voicemail. It sucks.
PhoneTag’s (formerly SimulScribe) NYC taxi-top marketing campaign
Navigating through messages en masse, rewinding/fast-forwarding to find that phone number you’re looking for that’s annoyingly left at the end of a 3 minute message, enduring an endless dialogue of “press {some number} to {perform some action}” inflames my impatient sensibilities and is generally an inefficient waste of time.
In the past I’ve coped with this inconvenience by doing what I normally do when encountering something I really don’t like: Deny it exists. Instead of listening to voicemail, I just return phone calls from my “missed calls” list (to the annoyance of my friends and family).
But that’s all in the past. I have, in fact, now exorcised the demon. Praise be to you, Lord PhoneTag.
Now normally, I usually glaze over all the Savannah Morning News “headlines” that come through my RSS reader. This is mostly because SMN only includes a text-message-esque first sentence of their articles in the feeds they publish. I assume this is for advertising purposes, but it still kinda sucks, as I’m not really a fan of summary-only feeds that make me leave the comfy confines of all-encompassing Google Reader.
But, alas, I digress.
The Puente de la Mujer in Buenos Aires
This time however, I happened to stumble upon a particularly tantalizing headline (and accompanying first sentence) from one of my favorite SMN columnists, Bill Dawers. It read something like this:
Thesis Project Imagines a footbridge to Hutchinson
I’ll confess that my eyes rolled a little when Andreas Mayer began to tell me about his thesis project.
Text-message sized teaser aside, I must admit my interest was peaked. Footbridge to Hutchinson? Yes please.
On May 21st at the SEDA/TCCa offices at high-noon, we will be facilitating a blogging panel made up of the area’s preeminent bloggers (read: YOU), on behalf of one of our most favorite-ist new young companies, Balaya.
If that weren’t enough, we’ll even buy you lunch and give you a comfy chair to sit in.
Balaya. Together. Wherever.
Hopefully, many of have heard of a great new company we’ve helped out named Balaya. You may have even attended their announcement we hosted last November where we celebrated the news that their corporate headquarters would be in Savannah. (Hooray!)
Balaya provides advanced web applications that help members of any group communicate and collaborate more effectively from desktops and mobile devices. What’s even cooler is that SmackDab Studios (another company we’ve given relocation love to) is developing their flagship product. Gotta love that domino effect.
Tick-it™, it’s like email but sucks less
We had a great turnout at cSpot yesterday. Thanks to everyone who stopped by for some good beer, great BBQ and lively conversation. To those who didn’t make it, check out a few pics. Hope to see you next time!
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