March 2007

Aswath's Modest Proposal

March 28, 2007

While I was on vacation, Aswath Rao published a pretty interesting piece titled OpenID Negates the Need for P2PSip. Here's what he's proposing: I can store the IP address and the port number on which my SIP client will listen for incoming calls in a web page and my partner can visit that page before [...]

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Good News for Truphone Subscribers

March 28, 2007

Truphone has exended their North American price promotion through to the end of June.  That's free phone calls to landlines, including internationally.

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Is Presence a Stinky Red Fish?

March 27, 2007

People keep sending me interesting new blogs.  Take ThreeDimensionalPeople, for instance.  Authored by Stephen Johnston, a London based Nokia employee, it's got all kinds of nifty stuff to read. Presence: A Red Herring? is a rant on the idea of "just adding presence" to mobile phones.  Stephen points out a bunch of the problems associated [...]

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Jajah milestones

March 27, 2007

It's a big day for the Jajah team.  12 months after launch, they have: passed 2 million subscribers.  Those are Vonage-like numbers, folks.  Viral marketing has helped them do that without a Vonage-like expenditure.  announced the appointment of a new CEO, Trevor Healy, formerly VP at Paypal.  Congratulations!

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Chris Gare and The Magic of Presence

March 27, 2007

In The Magic of Presence, Chris Gare has popped out a nice overview of some of the innovative presence companies out there today.  I gave him a call this morning, and we chatted for 30 minutes.  Nice guy. For me, the call illustrated neatly the spectrum of opinion that exists around presence, especially in the mobile [...]

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Couldn't have said it better myself!

March 26, 2007

Jared Benson, writing on Idlemode, has given us the 10 essential attributes of mobile presence: 1. Presence should not be interruptive. Imagine how irritating it would be if your pocket vibrated every time one of your mobile buddies' status changed. 2. Users must set/maintain their own presence information. Or, more accurately, users have to have [...]

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Keep your mitts off my idea.

March 26, 2007

Rick Segal has written an obvious post around a very easy to grok concept: VC's shouldn't steal entrepreneurs ideas.  Seems intuitive, right?  Let's see… VC steals entrepreneurs idea, word gets out, deal flow dries up. No more investments, no more investment fund…. Sometimes greed trumps common-sense.  Without naming names, there's at least one firm that I would [...]

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Flat Planet Phone Company selected for TWS2007

March 26, 2007

Moshe Maeir and his Flat Planet Phone Company are on a roll.  First the Etel Launchpad, and now selected to present at TWS2007.  Mazel Tov!

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In defense of Continuous Partial Attention

March 26, 2007

Steve Lohr, writing in the Sunday NY Times, provides a counterpoint to Stowe Boyd's elegant defense of Continuous Partial Attention at Etel.  Slow Down, Multitaskers; and Don't Read This in Traffic… and who hasn't? According to Lohr's article, recent research suggests that it's wisest to cut out the cacophony.  The experts advise checking email only once an hour, [...]

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BlackBerry Cool visits iotum

March 25, 2007

Blackberry Cool dropped into our offices in the middle of a snowstorm last month.  They were there for a quick tour, and a demo.  Well, the video is up, and it's awesome! Thanks for coming by, guys.

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