{"61177":{"#nid":"61177","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CM\u0027s Stamatiou Gains Funding for Blog","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPaul Stamatiou built Skribit (skribit.com) while a student in the Computational Media joint major program of the School Literature, Communications, and Culture and the College of Computing.  Stamatiou created the service a little over a year ago as a tool to help cure blogger\u0027s block (writer\u0027s block for bloggers) and today, it is used by more than 4,000 blogs and receives 4 million hits a month.  Stamatiou graduates this semester and has been seeking funding to allow him (and co-founder Calvin Yu) to develop skribit.com in to a profitable business.  The funding has been provided by the Georgia Tech Edison Fund so Stamatiou will remain on campus.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStephen Fleming, Chief Commercialization Officer for the GT Edison Fund, said that one of the Fund\u0027s most important missions is to retain early-stage technology companies that have a close association with the Institute and who would otherwise have to leave Atlanta to secure seed capital. \u0022At one time, I know that Paul was looking to move out to California to try to get funding for Skribit,\u0022 said Fleming. \u0022I\u0027m glad that we were able to provide him with the initial funding to keep young talent like him here in Atlanta.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStamatiou created Skribit (rhymes with ribbet) to help him work on his blog, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.PaulStamatiou.com\u0022 title=\u0022www.PaulStamatiou.com\u0022\u003Ewww.PaulStamatiou.com\u003C\/a\u003E.   Skribit is successful, he says, is because it provides a place for bloggers to get new ideas, rather than simply writing about what people are already talking about.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Paul Stamatiou built Skribit (skribit.com) while a student in the Computational Media joint major program of the School Literature, Communications, and Culture and the College of Computing.  Stamatiou created the service a little over a year ago as a tool to help cure blogger\u0027s block (writer\u0027s block for bloggers) and today, it is used by more than 4,000 blogs and receives 4 million hits a month.  Stamatiou graduates this semester and has been seeking funding to allow him (and co-founder Calvin Yu) to develop skribit.com in to a profitable business.  The funding has been provided by the Georgia Tech Edison Fund so Stamatiou will remain on campus.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CM\u0027s Stamatiou Gains Funding for Blog"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2008-12-09 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:27","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"61178":{"id":"61178","type":"image","title":"Paul Stamatiou","body":null,"created":"1449176308","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:28","changed":"1475894533","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:13","alt":"Paul Stamatiou","file":{"fid":"191286","name":"tof57749.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tof57749_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tof57749_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":54505,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tof57749_0.jpg?itok=wUbxrnDa"}}},"media_ids":["61178"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"170775","name":"Skribit"},{"id":"168932","name":"Stamatiou"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}