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What was the past has now become the future.
No, no Michael J. Fox time-machine DeLorean DMC-12 here. BUT, our great friends over at the Georgia Historical Society (GHS) have given their old website a facelift. Times ten.
In an effort to beef up and streamline public access to their historical resource treasure trove, GHS got together with the gang at Smack Dab Studios to overhaul their (yes, “historic”) website.
Overall, we dig the whole juxtaposition-of-past-and-future thing. It’s part of what makes Savannah cool. (Plus, it reminds me of one of my favorite old-school TCCa-flavored collateral fortune cookie fortunes: “I see a historic future in your present.”)
So, the result of this transformation? Georgia history being brought to life (ala Frankenstein but much more attractive).
Yea, we know the folks at Smack Dab, and they’re good, creative peeps. So it’s no wonder that the website looks so good and is chocked full of new cool features that make it both user-friendly on the front end and easy to maintain and update on the back end. We’re talking an upgrade from FrontPage 98 (collective MOAN) to a Ruby on Rails‘ custom CMS (Content Management System).
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.
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
Posted by Fitz Haile on March 18, 2008 at 10:17 PM
So, it finally happened: We got hacked! (Or our blog did.) Some loser managed to hack our Wordpress installation and keeps disabling comments on the IDSA post. Wierd thing is, it’s ONLY on that post.
I guess I should feel lucky…initially, he deleted the entire post and substituted a cornucopia of assorted pornography and prescription drug links. As if I didn’t have enough of those in my overflowing-with-nastyness inbox.
At any rate, the reason I mention it is so that if you notice any sillyness on the blog, you know why. Rest assured our web monkeys (me) are diligently banging away at the problem, but if you have any suggestions, let us know. (BTW, thanks Nick for the tip on 2.3.3…I upgraded the file that contained the vulnerability but unfortunately Mr. Hackerman is still at large.)
Anyhoo, just an FYI.
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Posted by Fitz Haile on February 21, 2008 at 06:21 PM
So, apparently at long last, the brainchild of our buddies Burton Sauls and Phil Sellers - CityTrex - has come to fruition (or is at least online). Or maybe it’s the first time I’ve heard of it…I’ve admittedly been asleep at the wheel lately (thus the first blog post in 3 weeks.) And they’ve teamed up with another local knowledge-based business named CityComber headed by our ubiquitous friend Marvin Heery. I swear I see that guy everywhere.
 
CityTrex LLC announced yesterday a license agreement with CityComber to further the goal of modernizing tourism in the Lowcountry. Simply put, this agreement adds a GPS component to the existing market product offering of the CityTrex iTour, which are interactive media tours on hand-held units. CityComber brings with it its handheld GPS thingamajiggy.
The jist is that you can roam around downtown and get history and tour information, depending on where you are. So, if you were standing on the west side of Madison Square, the CityComber device will automagically tell you all about the history of the Green Meldrum House, etc. Pretty cool.
Posted by Fitz Haile on January 28, 2008 at 05:40 PM
Occasionally here at TCCa, we like to geek out on overall cool computer stuff. Today is one of those days. It’s also an opportunity for me to hail(e) a neat little application I just found.
The app is called Fluid, and it lets you wrap your favorite web application (gmail, basecamp, google reader, facebook, whatever you want) in their own contained Safari-powered space on OS X. Once wrapped, the app gets its own little nifty icon, it’s own place in the Dock, and is basically a stand alone application (great for “alt+tab”ing.)
So, instead of opening your browser and typing in “www.facebook.com”, you’d do it in Fluid (just once) and then you’d have your very own Facebook “application”…doing all the things an application (like Safari, for example) does (alt-tab capability, own icon, settings, etc). It’s sorta like a bookmark on steroids.
Oh, and if you’re still stuck on Windows, there’s a similarly functioned app called Prism that is powered by the Mozilla engine.
If you get a kick out of that kind of thing (like I do), check it out.
Posted by Fitz Haile on January 4, 2008 at 09:45 PM
It has come to our attention that:
a.) our last post title offended some people, and..
b.) we haven’t posted since last year. (How lame.)
While we realize that some people are more sensitive than others, last year was only 4 days ago, and that blogging is more an art than a science - it’s still been about 2 weeks since our last post and we wouldn’t doing our job if we didn’t offend someone.
So, what better way to ring in the new year offensively than with - what else, a blogging unconference. Lots of people who love being pithy and the sound of their own digital voice … all in one room. It’s like a little slice of cool nerd heaven.
BlogSavannah, baby!
Last year (check out some fun videos) was the first year for BlogSavannah. Spearheaded by Drew Odom, co-sponsored by us (go us) and SavannahNow, BlogSavannah was a resounding-if-not-chaotic good time. Needless to say (now one year later) we’ve learned some lessons, polished our style, and started a relatively successful blog of our own.
So, my friend and colleague, Amanda, asked me to help her out with an event this week. Now, I knew going in that she has affection for maps and all things geography, what with a degree in it, and all. The event - GIS Day, Savannah - was the creative coast’s first effort to recognize GIS Day, which is an internationally observed acknowledgment and celebration of geography and careers in geographic information systems (GIS).
And, I would like to tell you that Savannah’s inaugural celebration of maps, data, geography and general nerdery was a great success!
A whole lot of folks came together from various organizations to help Savannah Area GIS (SAGIS) put on the local event that not only exhibited the truly diverse capabilities and applications of GIS analysts, engineers, cartographers and various scientists, but was actually cool and educational. Seriously. I learned a lot. And, more importantly, so did over 200 local middle school students who were invited to attend the event, held at the Savannah Civic Center.
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