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Dates Set for Digital Atlanta

The Metro area's largest all-volunteer conference for social media, the digital universe and consumer technology, is set for Nov 7 to 11. The call's going out for sponsors, venues and speakers. Read More

Atlanta History Center Program Honors Service Men and Women on Memorial Day Weekend

Meet veterans and interact with living history interpreters representing World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and today's conflicts as they share memorabilia and personal stories of triumphs and tragedies. Read More

Salon de The A High Tea & Hats Auction Benefit

Alliance Francaise d'Atlanta Presents: Salon de The A High Tea and Hats Premier Auction Benefit June 5th at the Four Seasons. Read More

'Bid Your Troubles Goodbye' Auction

"Bid Your Troubles Goodbye," features products and services from the chamber's members, as well as from members of the community at large. This annual fundraiser for the chamber makes it possible for the chamber to provide its many services. Read More

Do Not Miss AMA's May 2011 Emerging Tech SIG Luncheon

Mitch Spolan, LivingSocial's Senior Vice President of National Accounts out of New York, NY, is the featured speaker for this luncheon. Read More

Finalists Selected for Israeli Company of the Year and Deal of the Year

Excitement is building as finalists have been named for Israeli Company of the Year and Deal of the Year for the 10th annual Eagle Star Awards Gala. To register and for more information www.eaglestargala.com Read More

Calling All Men Who Cook for "Real Men Cook for Charity" Recruitment Meeting Set for May 24

Tickets are now on sale for this fun-filled food tasting Father's Day celebration. Read More

Metro Mechanical, Inc. Returns as Presenting Sponsor of the NARI Tour of Remodeled Homes

The NARI Tour will be held Oct. 1-2, 2011 and will showcase a variety of professional remodeling work done by NARI Atlanta members. Proceeds will benefit the ALS Division of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Read More

AMA-Atlanta June Signature Luncheon presents Digital Insights that Drive Strategy

AMA-Atlanta brings to the Atlanta marketing community, Kevin Clancy who serves as an adviser to organizations like GE, IBM, Microsoft, NFL, Procter & Gamble, Sony and VISA. Read More

Buckhead Business Association presents A Taste of Buckhead Business May 23rd

Featuring 20 of Buckhead's premiere restaurants and 40 local businesses which showcase Buckhead in an exclusive fashion. Read More

2nd Annual USA India Business Summit - Call for Awards Nominations

Nominations are open to all profit or non-profit businesses, individuals, private or government organization from USA and India who have shown outstanding entrepreneurial spirit, innovation and commitment to promote USA India Business and Trade. Read More

Acadia Homes Offers Pre-Sale Home Sites with Resort-Style Amenities at Bakers Farm

Acadia Homes and Neighborhoods is now offering pre-sale opportunities on homes at Bakers Farm, a community of three to five-bedroom homes with fantastic amenities priced from the $200,000s located in Braselton, Georgia. Read More


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of Facebook users have profanity on their walls, of those users, 80% have at least one post or comment with profanity from a friend and male undergrad students reference alcohol in their profiles 85.53% of the time.
(Mashable)

Most well-read cities in the U.S. according to Amazon
Cambridge, Massachusetts topped the list of cities that purchased the most reading material, as well as the most nonfiction books. Boulder, Colorado purchased the most material in the Cooking, Food & Wine category. And Florida had the most cities in the general top 20.
(Mashable)

YouTube mania
As of February 2011, YouTube has 490 million unique users worldwide per month, who rack up an estimated 92 billion page views each month. We spend around 2.9 billion hours on YouTube in a month — over 325,000 years. YouTube says that on average there are more than 400 tweets per minute containing a YouTube link. Meanwhile, over on Facebook over 150 years worth of YouTube videos are watched every single day.
(Mashable)

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What the rise of mobile means for video

Thu, 26 May 2011

The late 90s and early 2000s were a curious time. If you wanted to watch video on your computer, you needed one of a handful of plugins to watch it - QuickTime, RealPlayer, Windows Media and more. Check out how Adobe's Flash has changed the game for watching and creating videos to view on your computer, smartphone, iPad...

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