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
Profanity users on Facebook
47% 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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The What Blog
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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