June 2007

Web 2.0 will displace media monitoring

June 22, 2007

How do you politely tell someone that they're working in a dying industry? Yesterday a rep from Meltwater, a media monitoring company, nabbed me on the telephone for 30 seconds and convinced me to let him send me a media tracking report so I could see how valuable Meltwater's services would be to us at [...]

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OCS and Radio Handi acquired!

June 21, 2007

Brian McConnell dropped me a line a couple of days ago to talk about the new WordPress Plug-in for WorldWide Lexicon, his project to translate the web using human volunteers.  Toward the end of the conversation he also let me know that OCS (the company behind Radio Handi) would soon be acquired, but that he [...]

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JAJAH IPO on the horizon?

June 21, 2007

Things are getting a little frothy for JAJAH on the investment front.  With investments from Intel Capital and Deutsche Telekom, they're flush with capital.  Scanning the blogs yesterday, I came across this piece from Markus Göbel highlighting that Swiss investment firm Qino Flagship has increased their investment in JAJAH by another $1 million as well.  Most [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 Reflections: We’re onto something BIG!

June 20, 2007

The Air Canada lounge at Logan airport is a regrettably grubby little hole.  It's not the sort of place one wants to spend long periods of time in.  Still, as I sit here, stuffed full of expensive flavorless "cobb salad", it gives me an opportunity to reflect a little on what I've learned at the [...]

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From the Labs @ Enterprise 2.0

June 20, 2007

From the Labs is one of those sessions that I just love to see.  Researchers from Brightcom, IBM and SAP were on stage showing their "experiments" — technologies that they've got in the labs, that they agreed to come and show. Brightcom's research project was about future generations of telepresence.  Rather than focus on high [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad

June 20, 2007

The Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad is done. Four companies each got six minutes on stage, and two analysts, Stowe Boyd and David Coleman, were allowed one minute each to critique.  Collanos showed an application that was essentially Groove. A peer-to-peer file sharing and workplace collaboration environment, their big announcement today was that they've added voice.  Now you can talk as well [...]

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Presence 2.0

June 20, 2007

This morning I had the good fortune to be part of Enterprise 2.0's panel (chaired abley by Melanie Turek) on Presence 2.0.  Five panelists, including myself, Parlano's Nick Fera, Microsoft's Paul Haverstock, IBM's Dave Marshak, and Jabber's Joe Hildebrand.  The panelists universally viewed IM presence as an early presence application, and focused on where the [...]

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Jajah says “Ditch your headset!” for fun and prizes

June 20, 2007

The team at Jajah is having a little fun at Skype's expense.  Their "No Headset" campaign encourages users to ditch their headsets and choose Jajah for inexpensive calling.  The premise is pretty simple: make a video of yourself ditching your headset, and submit it to www.noheadset.com. Your video might even run on the new Jajah [...]

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Enteprise 2.0: Social applications meet business

June 19, 2007

The Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston kicked off this morning with talks from David Weinberger (author of the Cluetrain Manifesto) and Andrew McAfee (Harvard University).  The conference is about how the use of Web 2.0 technologies is changing business — the structure of business as opposed to the mechanics of business.  Common themes: consumer technologies are making [...]

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CounterPath and Newheights … together at last!

June 19, 2007

Buddy Ken Camp caught the news yesterday that CounterPath is acquiring NewHeights Software.  For those not in the know, NewHeights is the creator of some very innovative desktop software that extends the PBX feature set onto the PC desktop.  With NewHeights products you can control virtually all aspects of any kind of conversation from a [...]

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