Just found out that iKobo will be opening their doors again on December 4th. About a month back, they announced their plan to shutdown their services. Apparently something has happened, rather changed,  in the last couple of weeks. This is a good news for the Atlanta region. Every failed company compounds the failure rates for future startups. At the same time, every successful company does the exact opposite. Remember, Atlanta is no silicon valley and there are only handful of successful companies - every bit helps.
About: iKobo is an online …

For whatever the reason, I never bothered to become a member of MySpace.  Last week, I had to visit MySpace to try the Gun’N Roses‘ new album Chinese Democracy.  Salute to MySpace Music for pulling off such an awesome release of the GNR album. Kudos to the marketing folks (both the label and MySpace); this marks the beginning of myspace’s digital-reach-power. Either MySpace Music is run by extremely smart folks or ridiculously lucky (details to follow later).
Apparently loads of hardcore GNR fans visited MySpace to listen Chinese democracy. The title …

This is the most hilarious and strikingly truthful view of the startup companies these days.
Everyone wants to have a 1) blog, 2) Social Network, 3) Tag 4) Ratings and blah blah Web 2.0 features.  Anyone worked in a startup could easily relate to this video.. enjoy!!!
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Like everyone, we were also very curious on the browser usage patterns especially with the Google’s Chrome. It is surprising that 2% of our traffic are using Google Chrome - It is truly an astounding number for a browser that is only 4 days old.
Another key finding was that 25% users still use IE 6, which is hard to believe. Take these statistics with a grain of salt - our beta has been out only for two days.

When we heard about Google’s Chrome browser, our reaction was … “oh sh.., we have to test the application with one more browser!!”. If not for our beta launch, I would be as thrilled as many of the geeks out there to try out the new product from Google. We expect technically savvy people to be our early adapters, who also happen to openly welcome chrome - so to make sure our product supports the intended early adapters, we decided to test our application with Chrome.
Here is the good part!! …