December 2005

My Own Pirate Radio

December 22, 2005

Osh Momoh, recovering Microsoftie, and a former coworker of mine, is blogging at My Own Pirate Radio. Check it out!

I had the opportunity to spend an hour with Michael Geist this afternoon, and chat with him about privacy issues. Michael is a law professor at the University of Ottawa, where he holds the Canadian Research Chair in Internet Law and E-Commerce. We talked as part of our ongoing efforts at Iotum to understand and proactively address [...]

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Snarf This!

December 19, 2005

Snarfer is a new feed reader just released, by Snarfware. Supports both Atom, and RSS, and sports a plugin architecture to allow new feed formats to be easily incorporated. It’s free, because (like Google) it includes contextually relevant adware links above each post. The adware is unobtrusive, and unlikely to ever bother you. It has [...]

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Rational Forecasting for VoIP?

December 19, 2005

While cleaning out my inbox this morning, I came across this Google alert: Instat Forecasts Hosted VoIP Services Market of 1.27 Billion by 2009. A year ago, most forecasters were looking for about 1.6 billion by 2008. Will the market for hosted VoIP services take off? Or is this the beginning of a streak of [...]

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English Debate

December 17, 2005

Last night was Debate Night in Canada. The leaders of the NDP, Liberal, Conservative and Bloc Quebecois parties were on National TV last night. The Globe and Mail coverage is in this morning’s paper, and the Globe also published live thoughts from the editorial board. The Citizen slanted the story differently from the Globe and Mail, [...]

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Consumer VoIP Summit: Instant Messaging and Mobility

December 16, 2005

I’ve been asked to chair the Instant Messaging and Mobility panel at Pulver’s Consumer VoIP Summit in Las Vegas. It’s happening on January 4, during the Consumer Electronics Show. So far we have speakers from AOL, Yahoo, and Earthlink. I think a speaker from Google or Microsoft would really round out the mix, don’t you? [...]

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PhoneGnome and Skype? Just use Gizmo

December 16, 2005

Stuart Henshall asks "Should Skype have a PhoneGnome Strategy". The answer is a resounding yes. However, Skype’s proprietary protocol is a real handicap in this scenario. Many of the benefits of the strategy Stuart advocates are already available with standards-based solutions, such as Gizmo Project. Stuart says some of the benefits would be: Home Phone numbers to [...]

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PhoneBoy Connects

December 16, 2005

I had a great discussion with PhoneBoy yesterday. He had questions about iotum on his blog from last week and concluded "Maybe I’ll find the time to chat up Alec Saunders and he can tell me how this all works." I called him from my car on the way home through the snow last night. [...]

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Jason Droege: He Cares!

December 15, 2005

Jason Droege is the top dog at SIPPhone. Recently, three of us have have experienced a problem with Gizmo consuming more resources than it should. So, at 2:04 I sent Jason a piece of email outlining what we were experiencing, and at 2:15 I had a reply from him that his engineers were looking into the issue. [...]

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