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More Google RTP

I found another reference to the rumor of Google coming to RTP. Note that its all rumors. Nothing has been announced. No concrete evidence exists.

Andy Beal, a local marketing expert, guesses that ChannelAdvisor may be the company to be assimilated. Andy points out how Scot Wingo, founder of ChannelAdvisor, has been blogging about Google Base. Andy also points out that Jason Caplain, in addition to ChannelAdvisor, is also invested in Motricity, the Durham mobile phone software company, and wonders if Motricity could be in Google’s sights.

The blogosphere has been called a giant echo chamber. I’m not helping that reputation by repeating unsubstantiated rumors. I’ll let this story rest for now until some solid evidence comes my way.

Google RTP?

A local venture capitalist, Jason Caplain, is reporting of a rumor that Google may be opening shop here in the Triangle. No sources are quoted, and no further information is given. I don’t know where they get their information, but VCs are generally known to be tuned in to the emerging business scene.

Caplian speculates that Google would get here through an acquisition, rather than build fresh. That makes me wonder if Google had anything to do with local hosting provider Hosted Solutions mysteriously calling off their seemed-like-a-done-deal recent merger plans. Since Google would be more interested in people, not datacenters, Hosted Solutions probably isn’t a target.

Trilug has had its last two sysadmins hired away to Google and shipped off to California. Now I’m in that role. What would I do if the phone rings, especially now that moving’s not a requirement?

[Update: 5 Jan 2007] Google has purchased a start-up in Chapel Hill called Skia.

Combating Graffiti

I met a friend for lunch today at NeoMonde off of Hillsborough Street and Method Road. For some reason, probably its proximity to The University, the West Raleigh area has a bad problem with graffiti. As I exited the Beltline, I saw a road sign had been marked by some stupid gang. Stuff like just makes the place look trashy.

Luckily, the City of Raleigh has gotten serious about graffiti, setting up a team to deal with it. By contacting the graffiti team citizens can help clean up their neighborhoods.

I had plugged their number (831-6001) into my cellphone, so I decided to try it out. After one ring, a cheerful voice answered “City of Raleigh graffiti hotline.”

Pretty cool. I then gave her the location of the graffiti and she told me a crew would be sent out.

If more people report the graffiti they find, perhaps the taggers will move on. It certainly isn’t worth painting something if you know that it could be gone a day later. I’m hoping that by cleaning up the city, people can take more pride in where they live.