September 2005

Geddes Citynet Presentation

by alec on September 30, 2005

Martin’s presentation available here.

James Enck and Martin Geddes recently did a presentation for CityNet in Amsterdam. Aside from the very funny slides in James’ presentation, there were a few really choice tidbits, like the slide above. Four percent of global broadband users use Skype on a daily basis. That is a truly remarkable number, given that Skype debuted just two years ago, in September 2003.

Martin’s presentation was also quite thought provoking. I’ll be speaking with him later this morning, and perhaps he can be convinced to post his also.

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L’Ecole No. 41 1999 Seven Hills Merlot

September 29, 2005

It’s Thursday night. Tonight is the night Janice paints, and when she comes home I’ve got a bottle of wine out. It didn’t take much encouragement from a friend to dig out a nice bottle. This is what we’re drinking – Ecole 41 Seven Hills Merlot, Walla Walla Appelation. This Washington winery is one of my [...]

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Aswath Rao VON Recap

September 29, 2005

Aswath Rao has a nice write-up of his week at VON. I think his thoughts on the stupid network, especially as it relates to services, are worth reflecting on. His simple example — ring back tones can be implemented by end points (witness Skype). So why are these considered network based services?

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“Do Not Call” Doesn’t Work

September 28, 2005

According to this morning’s Wall Street Journal, the US Federal Do Not Call List is a failure. Regulators say the system is working, but a recent random survey (by telephone) by the Customer Care Alliance, a Virginia-based consortium of three customer-relations consultants, found that 51% of registered consumers say they’re still getting calls they think [...]

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Instructor Mitch Ferrence & the Dell Ditty-O

September 28, 2005

David Card hates it. Chris Seibold hates it too. I loved it. It’s engaging, stupid, and funny as all hell — evocative of Jack Black and "The School of Rock". This is going to be a viral advertising cult classic. I watched nearly all the sequences, for well over 10 minutes. "It" is the Dell DJ Ditty ad [...]

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The Search for Cool Apps

September 27, 2005

Telephony Online published a write-up of the VON Panel "The Search for Cool Apps". This is perhaps one of the most unfortunate panels at the show. Forever consigned to the last day of the show (this year, the last session of the show), and populated with speakers who aren’t applications people, I think this might [...]

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Congratulations to Fall VON

September 27, 2005

Fall VON made the 2005 Tradeshow Week’s Fastest 50 for being one of the fastest 50 growing tradeshows in America. Awesome!

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The H1B Problem Solved

September 27, 2005

I’ve long thought that the US Congress H1B limits were a short sighted and protectionist measure holding up the technology industry south of the border. Certainly, while I was at Microsoft our toughest problem was finding good people, and that was the reason Microsoft lobbied so hard to have those limits increased. I never could [...]

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