August 2005

The Stones – Photos and Reviews

August 29, 2005

The Ottawa Sun has an AWESOME Rolling Stones photo gallery.  The "It’s Only Rock and Roll" fan club has a whole page of reviews and photos as well.

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The Cell Phone is DRIVING ME SQUIRRELLY!

August 29, 2005

Are incessant calls making you nuts?   Is your phone driving you squirrelly?  You need the Cellular Squirrel – an animatronic "desktop squirrel" (did you even know that such a thing existed? I thought squirrels were inherently tree-top devices myself…) which deals with your calls for you. The squirrel answers phone calls, works out if you are busy or [...]

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GIPS Stock on the Move

August 29, 2005

I’m not the only one to notice that GIPS stock is on a tear due to their deals with MSN, Google and Skype.  Ron Gruia also spotted it. 

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It’s Only Rock and Roll…

August 29, 2005

Last night, the Rolling Stones gave us a convincing demonstration that "old" is a state of mind, and nothing more.  Four fit, and energetic guys cranked out crowd pleasing favorites for three hours, in front of over 40,000 fans. The show opened with a bang — literally.  Fireworks, red, white and blue lightshow, and a four [...]

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The Rolling Stones, in Ottawa

August 28, 2005

We’re off to the Rolling Stones this evening.  This is only the second time in 40 years that Ottawa has hosted the Stones.  Frank Clair Stadium is going to be PACKED.  Judging from the early reviews, this is going to be an awesome show.  They’ve been building the stage all week.  The band arrived yesterday.  Two hours [...]

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Sniffing the Google Talk Packet Stream

August 27, 2005

Interesting stuff.  James Seng has sniffed the Google Talk packet stream.  It’s vanilla XMPP (the Jabber Protocol).  One neat innovation is that each Google Talk client is a STUN server, thus replicating Skype’s ability to traverse firewalls, in a standard way.  How long before we see this in SIP clients?

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Packet8 Introduces Virtual Auto-Attendant

August 27, 2005

For $15 per month, businesses with three lines can now have a virtual auto-attendant from Packet8.  The "bionic-bitch" is so prevalent in business today that it’s a real shock to actually have a human being answer the phone.  The head-scratcher in this announcement is that the most successful small businesses get that way by high quality customer interaction, [...]

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Dow Jones Online on Cable vs Telco

August 27, 2005

There’s a nice article here in Dow Jones Online contrasting the cable and phone company customer acquisition strategies.  Cable outnumbers DSL, with a superior product, according to the article.  That’s the reason you see SBC jumping in with discounted $15/month broadband.

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WSJ on VoIP

August 26, 2005

Between Google Talk, and Vonage’s S-1 filing, VoIP is hot news these days.  A whole bunch of my favorite bloggers have been on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal over the last two days, including Jeff Pulver, Andy Abramson, and Jon Arnold.  Congrats guys! August 25th, Talk of the Internet.  Andy’s long distance [...]

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What are the XYZ’s of Your Product?

August 26, 2005

Wendy Kennedy has a great post (Sizzle without Steak) on developing positioning.  You can’t position your product without understanding your customer, their needs, and how your product meets those needs.  She offers the classic formula: "For customer X, we offer Y, which gives benefit Z."  – what Jonathan Roberts and Rich Tong used to call the [...]

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