Blake Perdue - Website & app reviews, and technology & startup commentary
DIY Whiteboard
I love whiteboards. They are an essential tool for explaining an idea or running a brainstorming session. Drawing an idea helps me better understand my thinking. We have whiteboards in every meeting room at the ATDC, which are constantly used by our startups.
Working At Kinetic Ventures
I am very pleased to announce that I will be working part-time at Kinetic Ventures during my last semester in business school. Kinetic Ventures, which has offices in Atlanta and D.C., is a leading venture capital investor in communications, information and power/clean technology driven businesses.
Faster Search Using Bookmarks
There are a handful of websites, like Amazon and IMDB, that I constantly look things up on. If you want to know what rating a movie has on IMDB, you go to your browser address bar, type www.imdb.com, wait for the homepage to load, enter the movie name and click search. This is a 3 step process that can be reduced to 1 using a bookmark.
Who Designed That Site?
When browsing the web, I often come across sites that are extremely well designed. Naturally, I want to know who built the sites that capture my attention. However, unless the design firm puts a “designed by …” link on the page, there’s no way to know who designed or built a site. That’s why I’m suggesting web design shops make use of the designer meta tag.
App Review: SQLEditor
An integral part of build any web app is database design. Creating the right tables, fields and relationships you need to store and control the app’s data can be a difficult task. Enter SQLEditor, a database design app for Mac OS. For PC users, I hear MySQL Workbench is quite good.
Startup Weekend: Lessons Learned
Although I helped with logistics and setup, I was also involved in one of the two teams that imploded at Atlanta Startup Weekend 2: Seed Stage Records. We were all disappointed to see a Startup Weekend team fail, but there’s still value to be found in the rubble. As the Seed Stage Records team disbanded Sunday afternoon, each team member noted that the lessons they learned from this failure were well worth the price of admission and the time invested.
Atlanta Startup Weekend 2
Saturday night is coming to a close and the groups are making great progress. Some are further ahead than others, but everyone seems to be having fun and hard at work trying to turn their ideas into products. Here are the ideas that currently have a website.
App Review: Font Explorer X
Over the years I’ve built up a large collection of fonts. Having alot of fonts installed at one time can be a serious pain. Apps take longer to load and it makes choosing a font a time-consuming process. In comes Linotype Font Explorer X, a font management, selection and discovery tool for both OS X and Windows.
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