September 2006

Keating Cancels Vonage

September 27, 2006

Tom Keating has posted a transcript of his call cancelling Vonage — quite humorous, since the rep clearly doesn’t know who he is.  I had a similar experience cancelling both Vonage and Packet8 recently, and I still have two Bell Cellular accounts that I intended to cancel but ended up falling for one of their [...]

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Jajah Goes Mobile

September 27, 2006

I don’t know about you, but there’s nothing that frosts my socks quite the same way as my monthly, sky high, mobile phone bill.  Well, this morning Jajah’s founders Daniel Mattes and Roman Scharf gave us all a new option.  Jajah mobile is a compact applet that you download to your cell phone, and which automatically [...]

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Ring Me on GrandCentral

September 26, 2006

Like a lot of folks, I watched Craig Walker’s launch of GrandCentral with a great deal of interest yesterday.  Immediately, I signed up for one of the beta accounts (yes, I am an early adopter!).  Only US phone numbers, and some parts (like address book upload) don’t yet work with Microsoft Office 2007, but it [...]

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Shooting at an OPEN NET

September 25, 2006

#1 VoIP Blogger Andy Abramson is calling for the creation of an Open NET initiative.  He’d like to see institutions, like corporations, universities, and public institutions open up their networks for public permitted access.  He wants to see limited public access available outside the corporate firewall. Great idea! In practice, many corporations already do this, [...]

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Sightspeed. #1 Again

September 25, 2006

Congratulations to the team at Sightspeed!  The October 17th PC Mag ranks them the number one pick for video calling, once again. 

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Voice 2.0: Call for Demonstrators

September 23, 2006

The advertisement for the Ottawa Voice 2.0 conference hit the local paper this morning.  It looks awesome, especially since they’ve helped to give me an even more swollen head by referring to me as a “thought leader”.  That’s twice in two days!  Do you think I should run for Prime Minister next? In any case, while talking [...]

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Nerdy, Geeky and Cheap

September 23, 2006

VoIPGirl has published a continuation of Mark Evan’s list of Canadian VoIP service providers.  I think she left out a really important option though.  It’s nerdy, it’s geeky, and it’s cheap. Get yourself a PC, install Asterisk, and buy an account from Unlimitel.  Yeah, you’re going to have to futz with Linux, and you have to [...]

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Why Scoble Should Be Outraged — It's NOT Patty Dunn

September 23, 2006

Are you outraged by the actions of HP Chair Patricia Dunn?  A lot of people are, including Scoble.  Caught with her hand in the cookie-jar, so to speak, Patricia Dunn has been forced to resign over reasons of ethics and privacy. Roll those big words around in your head for a minute.  Ethics. Privacy. Patty [...]

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Kawasaki: the Art of Distribution

September 22, 2006

Guy Kawasaki has a killer post on distribution.  He discusses virality, the deal, and the pitfalls.  Well worth a read.

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"Just" Add Voice

September 22, 2006

Just suppose, for a moment, that you were in charge of strategy for one of the most successful multi-media platforms on the web today. It’s already a tool that can be used for streaming video.  It’s programmable.  And, content and applications created for it are portable from PC’s to Mac’s to Linux to mobile.  What would you [...]

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