June 2006

Astricon 2006

June 20, 2006

I’ve spent the last two days at Astricon 2006 in Berlin.  Day 1 was a two track technical session.  Track 1 was an Asterisk for beginners workshop, and Track 2 a developers workshop. The real action started today.  Mark Spencer kicked the show off with a great overview of Asterisk’s business strategy, clearly explaining the [...]

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Selling Papers (the Power of a Catchy Headline)

June 20, 2006

Opera CTO Hakon Wium Lie knows the power of a good headline.  In Microsoft’s Forgotten Monopoly, he writes about the need for the web community to embrace fonts beyond the “Core Fonts for the Web” donated by Microsoft to the Internet community in 1996.  He’s right!  Firstly, those fonts are, frankly, stale, and secondly, Microsoft [...]

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Pimp My Berry!

June 19, 2006

Here’s a fun story about my partner Howard, and his custom painted Blackberry.  The Globe and Mail’s Mathew Ingram tells all.  The job was done by Roy’s Pontiac Buick Cadillac in Cornwall.  Check it out below (ignore all the top-secret iotum stuff on the board in the background… please!). Photo by Jim Courtney

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Have Your Say On Who Should Run Microsoft!

June 19, 2006

Om Malik is running a quick poll on who should be the next Microsoft Mandarin… Steve, Ray, Kevin, or… Hey Om, what happened to Andy’s suggestion — Bill Clinton? Head on over to GigaOm to place your bet (er… vote).

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Rules for Start-ups

June 19, 2006

Don Dodge writes about a recent panel he participated in with Ajit Nazare of Kleiner Perkins.  Nazare outlined his 7 rules for startups: KP’s 7 rules for start-ups Instant Value to customers – solve a problem or create value with the first use Viral adoption – Pull, not push. No direct sales force required Minimum [...]

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Brand: Building It, Keeping It

June 18, 2006

In the category of marketing intangibles, there is surely no concept more intangible than brand. Wikipedia says ”in marketing, a brand is a set of feelings toward a producer”. Even so, brand is surely one of the most misunderstood tools in the marketers kitbag. For many, brand is what they say about themselves to the marketplace, [...]

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ITAA Comes Out Against VoIP CALEA

June 17, 2006

A group of Internet pioneers, including Vint Cerf, has authored a paper critical of the FCC CALEA requirement for VoIP.   After outlining the considerable technical difficulties involved in implementing the FCC requirement, they also commented: Voice over IP is the immediate target of the FBI’s CALEA efforts. The Internet architecture is rich and flexible, and [...]

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Gralla: Bursting the VoIP Bubble

June 17, 2006

Preston Gralla savages the Vonage IPO and the Skype acquisition in this post titled Skype and Vonage: Can You Hear the VoIP Bubble Bursting?. It’s hard to disagree with his assessment. Vonage closed at $9.60 on Friday, down from the $17 opening price a few weeks ago. Skype unveiled a series of highly expected, but [...]

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Arnold and TMC to Host IP Communications Web Summits

June 17, 2006

Jon Arnold and TMC’s Rich Tehrani announced yesterday that they would be jointly hosting a series of one hour Web Summits on IP Communications. From the news announcement, it appears that a web summit is a hybrid webinar, with more interaction possible. It seems that you will be able to view the presentation, ask questions, [...]

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This is a test blog post from Word 2007

June 17, 2006

I am testing the blog posting feature in Word 2007. If this post works correctly, it will be posted via WordPress’ XML-RPC interface to the blog. It’s a nifty feature.  However, neither categories nor dates work correctly.  In order to use it, I have to post as a draft, which puts the posting in the [...]

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