February 2006

“Smart Money” vs Dumb Money

February 22, 2006

Over the last couple of days I’ve had a number of conversations with investors about the whole concept of "smart money".  Smart money is the idea that an investor brings more to the table than just a chequebook.  They might bring business acumen, mentoring, customer contacts, or strategic expertise as well.  The smart money argument [...]

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VoWiFi: Because Most People Have a Professional and a Personal Life

February 20, 2006

Last week, at 3GSM, Microsoft President Steve Ballmer showed a VoWiFi enabled cell phone, running a version of Microsoft Communicator, and raising the spectre of free calling via WiFi hotspots.  Think of what would happen if Skype came to the mobile world. Naturally, this has operators quaking in their boots.  More interesting, however, was Ballmer’s [...]

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Don’t Bother Sucking Up to Me, Guy

February 19, 2006

Guy Kawasaki has a lengthy post about how to suck up to bloggers.  As usual, Guy has a few great points.  Like the fact that blogging is turning journalism on its head.  The best journalists, like Om Malik, are also bloggers.  Blogging defines the story today, not the previous generation of PR pro’s pitching the media.  [...]

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When Does Unlimited Mean Unlimited?

February 19, 2006

I am sitting looking at $72 of "overage" on my Rogers Unlimited Data plan.  That’s correct.  Overage on an unlimited plan.  I am a little confused.  I thought unlimited mean un-limited.  Just to make sure that I understood the term correctly, I went and checked my dictionary.  According to Houghton Mifflin: un·lim·it·ed    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (n-lm-td)adj. Having no [...]

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Teenage Boys, Cheese and a Hot Glue Gun

February 18, 2006

The Hot Cheese Gun, originally uploaded by Alec Saunders.   I couldn’t figure out why the hot glue gun shorted out yesterday. Today, while downloading photos from my camera, I came across this… So what are you looking at? My two oldest sons carved a piece of cheese into the shape of a hot glue [...]

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Live Springsteen? Flashback with Wolfgang’s Vault

February 18, 2006

Check out this hilarious posting from ZDNet’s Russell Shaw.  He’s discovered Wolfgang’s Vault, which is a repository of all kinds of material from the Bill Graham collection. And Vault Radio is continuous streaming rare live recordings from the sixties and seventies.  I’ve spent the whole morning listening to vintage recordings of Elvis Costello, Led Zeppelin, [...]

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GMail and Hotmail Do Presence

February 18, 2006

I was working away this morning when my GTalk popped.  It was Jeff, trying out a new feature of GMail. 8:09 AM jeff.pulver: are you also using gmail 8:10 AM me: try not to. Have too many email addresses  jeff.pulver: i am chatting via gmail right now  me: from within gmail?  jeff.pulver: from inside gmail – while [...]

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Can Vonage Make a $Billion in Revenue?

February 18, 2006

Jon Arnold’s been digging through some research from ChangeWave on residential VoIP.  It’s good stuff — hard data and analysis.  Right at the end, he writes: Vonage will be hard pressed to hit 3 million US subs by end of year. I don’t know what their IPO plans are forecasting, but 3 million would put [...]

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Mark Evans: Suspicious Content

February 17, 2006

This morning while browsing over to Mark Evans excellent blog, Windows OneCare Live popped up the following message: Caution! This website contains suspicious content. I’ve long thought the same.  It’s nice to have those niggling suspicions of mine confirmed by an independent authority. Keep up the good work, Mark!

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Skype: the Best Way for Terrorists to Foil NSA Eavesdroppers

February 17, 2006

Google News shows that an AP story, filed yesterday, on Skype and encryption is in virtually every newspaper in America this morning. The thrust of the story is that secure communication with Skype is easy, much easier than secure communication has been with any previous technology.  And even if there are flaws, it could still stymie [...]

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