January 2005

Why do I care?

January 26, 2005

One of my employees gave me a gentle prod the other day. He knows that I have strong opinions on the same sex marriage debate, and he commented that he found it funny that a straight guy would care so passionately about gay and lesbian rights. Purely and simply I care about rights, which is [...]

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January 24, 2005

Bellster is Jeff Pulver’s newest business.  It’s a great idea, and one that a few of us at Iotum seriously kicked around about a year ago as well.  The concept is simple:  for much of the day your telephone line is unused.  Why not allow others to use it as an outbound calling gateway? In [...]

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d’Arry’s Original

January 24, 2005

My parents have been visiting for the last couple of weeks.  During that time much good wine has been consumed, and my only regret is that I haven’t had time to make notes about it here.  Somehow when the revelries start it’s difficult to drag yourself away and write a review of the bottle you’re [...]

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January 21, 2005

There will be a business in preventing SPIT , for sure. 

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January 21, 2005

Billboard targeted at Larry Ellison.  Very interesting concept.  The internet has enabled advertising targeted at just one guy… or perhaps we’re all supposed to call

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January 21, 2005

Blame it on marketing!  Or at least that’s how tonight’s episode of the Apprentice looked to me.  Luckily, George saw right through Todd’s fingerpointing, and Trump fired the right guy. Yeah, Danny was a train-wreck, but the fact is that leadership on the Book Smarts team was a disaster.  Any small business owner knows that everyone has [...]

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January 20, 2005

I’ve been threatened with divorce if I actually consider buying one of these.

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January 20, 2005

Martin, over at Telepocalypse, has a great piece on open communications channels, as opposed to the traditional telephony model.  Obviously he hasn’t seen DiamondWare’s Palantir.

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January 20, 2005

This is a laugh… now if they could only come with anti-viagra-spam as well.

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January 20, 2005

From the Broadband Blog: What if we all had a SIP address? I think the new geek-chic has got to be a personal SIP address myself. 

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