Alec Saunders SquawkBox

We had plenty to talk about today including:

• The iPhone 3G is close to outnumbering first gen iPhones by selling 6 million units since launch a scant two months ago.  It took the 1st generation iPhone over a year to sell six million.
• Meanwhile, Android phones are still on the drawing boards as sketches of the T-Mobile G1 leak out. It’s one hot looking phone, but will they have the application infrastructure to compete with Apple…
• And  SmartPhone and PocketPC magazine has announced that their windows mobile focused publication is… ceasing publication.  A sign of the times perhaps?
• And finally… more new Nokia N-Series handsets.  The N79 and N85 were announced this week.  Coincident with that was a great piece by Olga Kharif in Business Week on mobile VoIP… at the same time as Nokia dropped the VoIP stack from these new handsets.

On this morning’s Calliflower Conference Call: Tom Orr, Andy Abramson, Dan Rockwell, Jeanette Fisher, Jonathan Jensen, Sergio Meinardi, Bill Volk, Sheryl Breuker, Warren Bent, Jon Arnold, Jeb Brilliant, Jim Courtney

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 Squawk Box August 27, Mobile Roundup [55:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Calliflower Communiques series continues to roll along.  Next week we’ll be hosting the best selling author of the One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard, as he talks about his latest book: The One Minute Entrepreneur.  If you’re a fan of Blanchard, or business management books in general, you won’t want to miss this event.

More details at the Calli-Communiques blog, or simply click this link to register for the call.

Ted Wallingford takes a shot at walled garden style social networks this morning with his call for a “social network infrastructure that allows many enrollment-based sites to be used with a common access credential”.  That is, of course, what OpenSocial is trying to do, and to a lesser degree Facebook itself.

Still, I agree with Ted that the degree of interaction which Facebook demands of me in order to respond to application invitations is far more than I care to manage.

Whether it’s growth and expansion, new acquisitions, technology and APIs, or awards, Voxeo is on a roll these days.  This morning we spoke with Jonathan Taylor, CEO of Voxeo on the line to chat about some of the recent events at his company.

We spoke about their new release (Prophecy 9.0), their global expansion, acquisition of MicroMethods and fabulous growth of nearly 100% over the last 12 months.

On the conference call this morning: Dan York, James Swing-r, Ron Blaisdell, Anthony, Jeb Brilliant, Brian Cross, Brad Jones, John D, Sergio Meinardi, James Body, Peter Diedrich, Dan Rockwell, Jim Courtney, Alex van Dijk, Megan Dyer Maxwell, Frank Abrams, Gordon, Kim Beers Martin, RJ Auburn, Nicole, Tom Orr, Jason and Don.

Related links:  Jim Courtney’s A Textbook Case for Voice 2.0 and Telecom Partnering.

 

 Squawk Box August 26 - Guest Jonathan Taylor [37:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Ever wanted to spam blog comments to the world?  Create thousands of back links, and annoy bloggers the world over?  Now it’s easy, with automated comment spamming systems.

Yeesh.  Comment spammers are getting bolder all the time.  This morning I’ve received two piece of comment spam advertising blog comment spam systems…

Don’t waste your money.  Firstly, all modern blogging systems implement REL=NOFOLLOW links in comments, so the backlinks and trackbacks advertised by these systems are worthless.  Secondly, advanced spam catching systems like Akismet weed crap comments out anyway.  Since installing Akismet in May of 2006, it has trapped over 1.4 million spam comments for me.  Currently, Akismet is weeding out approximately 2,400 spam comments per day.

There’s only one way to build quality backlinks – have something to say, and work hard at building relationships with others who have something to say.

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