October 2006

Seguineau: The Three Legs of Presence

October 24, 2006

Jean-Louis Seguineau has written a useful taxonomy of presence and awareness this morning.  He breaks awareness up into four categories: availability awareness, which relates to the availability of people and objects. contextual awareness, which includes physical, social and mental context. group awareness, which promotes the feeling of belonging to a group. workplace awareness, which is [...]

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Heading to Astricon Dallas

October 24, 2006

Astricon Dallas has started.  I’m skipping the tutorials today, and heading to Dallas tomorrow.  A 6AM flight.  Ugh!  Still, Astricon promises to be a great event.  500+ attendees, and 35 exhibiting companies all focused on, what else?  Asterisk.  I’ll be there as CEO of iotum, naturally.  We’ll be making an announcement on Thursday at the show.  [...]

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The Good Blogs: Out of Private Beta

October 24, 2006

I’ve been part of a community of folks using The Good Blogs for the last couple of months.  It’s a blog discovery widget that shows you the latest posts from a community of users.  The concept is pretty simple: join The Good Blogs, and cross promote your blog and other people’s blogs in your community.  [...]

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Get Started Today With Voice 2.0

October 23, 2006

At a recent Gartner symposium, analyst Bob Hafner advised customers not to invest in expensive desk phones with large displays.  Deploy a softphone instead, because deskphones will be gone in five to ten years.  Andy Abramson teases that theme out a little further, noting that many Voice 2.0 capabilities can be had without replacing existing networks.   [...]

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Give Me Simplicity or Give Me…

October 22, 2006

I used to have a zippy little tablet PC from HP as my main machine.  Not a Ferrari, more like a Miata.  With a little TLC, it was fun to use, and gave me a great deal of pleasure as I went about my daily work. But you know, it has become more like Grandma’s Valiant than [...]

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Geek Marketing 101

October 21, 2006

Jajah’s Don Thorson lays out the 5 rules for a whole product. Great advice. A must-read post. read more | digg story

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Canadian Politician Garth Turner Dooced

October 21, 2006

Canadian Parliamentarian Garth Turner is probably the highest profile individual in the history of blogging to get dooced.  Last week Turner got kicked out of the Conservative Party for the views he expressed on his blog — views that were in some cases critical of the Government, his own party. For those of you who’ve [...]

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Scrybe: Substance or Hype?

October 21, 2006

Scrybe co-founder Shehryar Hydri dropped me a note yesterday drawing my attention to their upcoming beta, and the drop-dead gorgeous video they’ve made to launch it. Scrybe is an online organizer, combining calendar, list making, and task management.  It’s drawing a lot of attention over at the Download Squad. Jason Clarke is practically salivating on the floor [...]

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Skype By The Numbers

October 20, 2006

EBay’s latest financials break out Skype statistics pretty clearly, and Skype Journal’s Jim Courteny has been digging through the entrails looking for insight. The net for me? Revenue growth is slowing, likely due to the free Skype-Out in North America campaign. It’s actually pretty dramatic.  42% growth in Q1, 26% in Q2, 13% in Q3.  Will Q4 be [...]

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AIMing for the Web

October 20, 2006

I guess API’s don’t warrant press releases. This announcement attracted almost no coverage, except a lengthy piece from Om Malik.  The news is simply this: AOL has now built a web API for the OpenAIM program, allowing presence to be queried and messages to be exchanged from a web page. Esoteric, perhaps, but very important for developers.  At iotum, [...]

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