I’m not sure why you’d do this, but I saw a tweet from Andrew Hyde about a service to shorten the URL for your Facebook profile. The service is at fbook.us. I tried it out and it does work. I’m just not sure why you care to do this. Are long Facebook URLs really a problem for anyone? Given that they’ve only served 228 as I write this, I guess not. Well, whatever.
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Back in December Jeff Haynie and Nolan Wright scored a big PR boost for their company, Appcelerator, by getting Marc Fleury to join their advisory board.
Most people would be happy and then take it easy based on this. Yeah, not these guys. From Jeff’s tweets, I learned that there was an article written about them and they were a finalist for an award.
Geek note: when you look at Jeff’s Twitter page, you’ll see he has customized it with the Appcelerator logo. He’s serving that logo off of Amazon’s S3 web service. Cool. It’s costing him .114 cents each time that image is served. Yeah, I did the math. Yeah, I’m a geek.
The article is a pretty nice writeup in Information Week. I hadn’t realized that their efforts might be causing issues at Adobe but it sure seems that way. It’s a good thing to disrupt the status quo. That’s what startups are all about.
On top of that, they are a finalist in the Jolt Awards. Honestly, I don’t know anything about these awards but the fact that they’re from Dr. Dobb’s Journal must mean they are pretty legitimate. By the way, Appcelerator’s competition for the award includes Adobe and Sun. Not bad company to be in.
They’re pretty secretive about who is using the Appcelerator platform so I thought I’d go trolling. One I know is the Startup Weekend Atlanta company Skribit. I know this because Jeff and crew were involved in the development and they were able to get that going very quickly. The only other site I could find (honestly, I didn’t spend much time trolling) was Team One Eye which seems to be run by one of Appcelerator’s employees. I’d say it’s a a good vote of confidence if Appcelerator’s own employees are using their stuff for their non-work projects.
Appcelerator has been around for less than 2 years (including the time under the previous name - Hakano). I count eleven people on LinkedIn that say they work at Appcelerator (although Nolan’s profile still lists him as being at Vocalocity). Pretty sizeable and I think they’re growing fast. This will be a fun one to watch and could be another smashing Atlanta hit. By the way, they are self funded and have grown through revenue. That makes this an even better story!
Just saw this tweet and I laughed out loud.
I just stumbled onto the fact that someone at Georgia Tech is sending sports updates via Twitter. How cool is that? They even took the time to update the background layout of their profile on Twitter. With only 19 followers clearly they haven’t gotten the word out on this. How about a link on some Georgia Tech website?
If you hadn’t heard, Startup Weekend came to Atlanta a few months ago. That event birthed Skribit, a social blog suggestion widget. I’ll write more about the idea and company in a future post but for now I just wanted everyone to be aware that I’ve added the widget to the blog. Feel free to go in and suggest topics or companies for coverage and I’ll try to start knocking them off as quickly as possible.