August 2005

New Skype Beta Out

by alec on August 31, 2005

According to the Skype Journal, Skype for Windows Beta 1.4 is out. Download it here. Looks like there are some exciting new features, including Call Forwarding.

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Om Malik on the Long Term Impact of Combining VoIP and IM. As he says "Voice will soon become an embedded feature in most applications" — a platform component. You will see voice in games, IM, business processes, web sites, and many many more places.

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Why Google Talk?

August 31, 2005

Joe Laszlo, at Jupiter Research, offers the Top 5 reasons for Google Talk. Tongue firmly planted in cheek. Thanks Randy!

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MSN Acquires Teleo

August 31, 2005

There’s a very interesting story on the wire this morning. Microsoft has acquired Teleo, a San Francisco VoIP startup, and plans to offer VoIP services (both paid and free) through MSN. Repeat after me: softphones are platforms, softphones are platforms. You can read about it on: Seattle PI: The Seattle PI includes this interesting tidbit: [...]

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Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang Online

August 30, 2005

The Stone’s new album, A Bigger Bang, is now completely available online at their website. Click here to stream the album. Includes "Sweet Neo Con" which I was disappointed they didn’t play on Sunday in Ottawa.

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Advice to Canadian Telcos: Fight Fire with Fire

August 30, 2005

According to Seaboard Group (as reported by Mark Evans), Canada will have over 4 million VoIP lines by 2008. Is that a significant number? You bet! Bell, the largest incumbent, has about 12 million lines today. Seaboard’s advice to incumbent telco’s hobbled by the regulator? "Fight fire with fire". The current cableco offerings are weak, and vulnerable [...]

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The Rolling Stones Hit Byward Market

August 30, 2005

The Stones were in Byward Market yesterday, shooting a music video. It was all over the papers this morning. Quite a commotion, with most of the market blocked off. The Sun managed to report on the script of the Streets of Love video. The Citizen’s report, meanwhile, can’t be shared because it’s behind the subscriber firewall. However, [...]

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Spolsky on Platforms Revisited

August 30, 2005

Three years ago today, Joel Spolsky published this excellent essay on platform businesses. Still relevant.

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Trump Says Outsourcing Creates Jobs

August 30, 2005

Donald Trump has published a short piece on outsourcing. He says that in the long run, outsourcing creates jobs because increased corporate profits pump money back into the economy. Agreed. Outsourcing is a problem, however, for many kinds of businesses — high technology, for instance. My company, Iotum, builds software, which is a kind of knowledge [...]

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Nortel Dumps Location Based Services

August 30, 2005

Spotted this on the news this morning: Nortel Sheds Location Technology. Andrews Corporation has purchased location services assets from Nortel. Does Nortel have any other location services businesses, or are they out of this business altogether? What does this imply for other applications businesses that Nortel is trying to build?

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