July 2007

Andy says “no thanks” to Ooma

July 29, 2007

More details of how Ooma works are coming to light.  Andy Abramson got part way through the install, and then chose to not continue because by agreeing to the Ooma terms, he was allowing Ooma to reconfigure his phone service.  A number of folks I've spoken with have also reported the same. During my conversation with [...]

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Pownce poseur snatches Chris Pirillo’s good name

July 28, 2007

Chris Pirillo has a beef with social networks.  It's called identity. A poseur on Pownce has snatched his identity, and started to sign up unwitting powncers as his friends.  People he doesn't know.  People who don't know him. Virtually all social networks suffer from the same problem.  As networks proliferate, individuals can't be members of all networks, [...]

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Disagreeing with Mark

July 27, 2007

Speaking as a consumer, I have to respectfully disagree with some of Mark Goldberg's points in his latest posting about the Canadian wireless market.  He is reacting to a Montreal Gazette piece titled Canada's wireless policy is clueless. Mark writes: "More than one such device per person" makes no rational sense. It is a statistic driven [...]

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Social strategies in marketing

July 27, 2007

 I was very flattered, yesterday, to have Stuart Henshall hold me, this blog, and iotum, up as an example of folks living a social strategy in marketing. Didn't know quite how to respond, which is why I waited until today to write anything.   As hard as it is to believe, I am a little self conscious about public praise.  [...]

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MySpace’s fraud in deleting 29,000 accounts

July 26, 2007

Yesterday MySpace deleted the profiles of 29,000 sex offenders from the site.  It was a good PR move for the company, and more motivated by wanting to be seen to be "taking action" by politicians and the public than anything else.  After all, it would be a simple enough task to gain access to the registered [...]

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Apple vs BlackBerry vs Nokia

July 26, 2007

Yesterday's comparison (via TechCrunch) of iPhone to Blackberry was fun, if predictable. Dave Winer weighs in as well, describing his experiences.  The net of it: if you want a business class mobile, with email and calendar, and a keyboard you can type on, skip the iPhone.  Blackberry's your choice. Chatting with a friend of mine at [...]

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ZTE Bavo: a VoIP Swiss Army Knife for Home Networks

July 26, 2007

Interest in new telephony features supplied at the end point seems to be at an all time high.  After all the noise about Ooma last week, Aswath Rao dropped me a note pointing out the ZTE Bavo, a product from his company.  Today Aswath has written about it himself, as well as another of his company's products on his [...]

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Stop using me!

July 25, 2007

Josh Bernoff wants us all to stop talking about "users", and instead refer to the people who use the products we all create in this industry as people, customers and friends.  Amen. The other term which I have spent years trying to erase from my vocabulary is "consumers".  The people who use our products aren't [...]

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Plaxo’s open platform

July 25, 2007

Last week I chatted with Plaxo architect Joseph Smarr about their new OpenID initiative.  Basically, what they've done is implement support for the use of an OpenID as your Plaxo credentials rather than a Plaxo specific account.  Future plans call for them to also become an issuer of OpenID credentials too.  What they're trying to become is [...]

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Canadian service providers should service customers better.

July 25, 2007

Yesterday I went shopping for a high definition PVR.  I've been an ExpressVu customer since 2001, which means that I've probably spent $8,500 with them over that period of time.  At the time I bought my ExpressVu system, the only option for high definition was ExpressVu. Today, however, I've got the option of going with Rogers as well.  [...]

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