Thursday, June 28, 2012

A visual history of catt.com over the past 15 years.



Catt.com has been my home page for 11 years now.  The site is almost like an old friend.  It has, is, and will continue to be “the” community portal for north west Georgia. 

 In the beginning, the site was pretty bad.  But most websites were in 1997:

It had a link to download Netscape.  Remember Netscape?
 
 A year later, the site lost some ugly but still wasn’t too appealing:


 A cool link to “Ask Jeeves” was added because….he knew everything right?

Here’s a major overhaul of the site:
This is a screen shot from 1997 and where catt.com started to become a legitimate news source.  This is the first generation of catt.com that we all know today.

The 2nd major overhaul was in 2005 which looks very similar to the site today.  While similar in design structure to the old site, it used a much more sophisticated code so that real-time news and other features could be implemented:


It should be noted that many folks over the years have worked hard to make catt.com this area's premier community website.   You know who you are....thank you.  Also, Catoosa County News and WDEF News 12 have been a big part of the Catt.com website as news providers and I appreciate their content contribution as well.

On July 1st, the 3rd generation of catt.com will be implemented.  Each revision is better than the next.    For those of you that have made catt.com your home page or at least view the site from time to time, I hope you find the website as helpful as I do.  Please comment and share your impressions of the old catt.com and the new!

Friday, June 22, 2012

DOJ investigates cable companies for antitrust of online video

Just when you thought nothing 'good' comes from the DOJ, it begins investigating possible antitrust (anti competition) from cable companies as it relates to Internet TV services such as Netflix, Hulu, etc.  Nothing may become of it but there is a possibility this could be good news for OTT advocates and consumers of online video services.  Could this be a beginning to a-la-carte TV subscriptions to go live online? Wouldn't it be nice to subscribe to your favorite 8 cable TV channels $2/mo each and have it delivered over your Internet connection?  An interesting article from the WSJ here.