October 2005

Off to LA

October 23, 2005

I’m heading to Los Angeles for the ITEXPO show next week.  Leaving early in the morning.  Look for updates as the show progresses.

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Zafirovski: Comedian

October 21, 2005

rick moranis, originally uploaded by Alec Saunders. Humorous glitch on the Globe and Mail website. Who knew Mike Zafirovski was also an actor?

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Voice 2.0: A Manifesto for the Future

October 21, 2005

Two days ago I spent the day travelling to Toronto and back on the Via Rail.  It turned into a rather long day, because just outside Brockville a train ahead of us on the track had a partial derailment.  The tracks were damaged, the train was damaged, and sometime just after midnight (after leaving us [...]

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Four little old ladies from Texas

October 20, 2005

My Dad sent me this.  Very funny.  Worth a listen.

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Skype / Vonage Negative Economies of Scale?

October 20, 2005

The Stalwart Blog argues that Skype’s business model will erode as more people sign up for it.  Calls between Skypers are free, after all!  True, but Skype’s business model is to monetize services associated with that free network.  The metered minute arbitrage play is temporary – a diversion on the route to becoming the de-facto [...]

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Business Model 2.0?

October 19, 2005

Peter Rip, Managing Director of Leapfrog Ventures, has been writing pretty extensively about Web 2.0 on his blog, Early Stage VC.  One of the best posts, in my opinion, is Web 2.0 Needs Business Model 2.0. The big question is how do you monetize a mashup? He expertly dissects the problems with micropayments, shared value models, and [...]

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Interview with an Honest Boss

October 18, 2005

One has to believe that Hallmark will pull this unfinished piece of work down quickly.  Get it while you can.

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Clinton Would Back Martin on Trade

October 18, 2005

Bill Clinton commented last night that he doesn’t think Paul Martin has any choice on the softwood lumber issue.  We have plenty of resources in this country besides lumber.  We should be pursuing a multi-pronged strategy on trade. Global warming, for instance, affects Canada greatly.  The annual fall display of leaves in Ottawa this year was terrible — the summer [...]

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Aswath Rao on CALEA

October 18, 2005

I’ve been exchanging some email with fellow blogger Aswath Rao on the whole CALEA issue.  I wanted to share an excerpt from a particular message from Aswath with the rest of the blogging community, and so without further ado, here it is.  This is written in response to my post from yesterday. In any event, I am [...]

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World’s Smallest PBX

October 18, 2005

There you have it — Asterisk on the Gumstix SBC.  Having said that, it’s not actually doing anything with the media.  It’s a basic voice router, and that has been done before.  If you recall, IPTel had SER running on an iPaq at one point. 

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