September 2007

"Click", "Is someone listening in on your extension?"

September 24, 2007

Pudding Media would like to do for your phone calls what Google AdWords does for your inbox: make it free, by giving advertisers access to you during your call.  They accomplish this magic by listening in on the call for specific keywords, and then pushing the advertising back to a PC based on what you're [...]

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Don't touch my monkey, Dave!

September 22, 2007

I'm opposed to Dave Winer's proposal to chuck the term social graph and replace it with social network.  The internet was conceived of as a tool for good, and a means for the education and edification of the public at large. It wasn't supposed to be an endless dripping pipe of pornography, drivelly blog postings, stolen music and banal [...]

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Will Rogers bring iPhone to Canada?

September 21, 2007

Blackfriar's The gutsy marketing and strategy behind Apple's iPhone price cut is a succinct dissection of the iPhone strategy.  The piece points out that Apple is trying to reorganize the telecom value chain by making the phones the story for consumers — not the carrier.  This strategy can work well in a market where carrier [...]

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Innoculate, culture and read the results

September 20, 2007

The market research possibilities on Facebook are amazing.    Need to ask a targeted demographic a few key questions?  Run a poll for pennies a response. You'll have your answer in a few hours. Want to test an offer?  Buy a flyer… again for pennies a response. Within a few hours, you'll have accurate click through [...]

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Free Call on Electoral Reform in Ontario

September 18, 2007

One of the things we did when we created our Facebook Free Conference Call application was to allow people to create public conference calls.  The idea behind this feature is that you will be able to create public events that happen on a conference call.  Market research showed that Facebook users would be interested in [...]

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fbFund: grants to build Facebook apps.

September 18, 2007

It must suck to be Bay Partners or Altura right now.  After tons of great press about their new Facebook specific venture funds, along come Facebook, Accel and Founders fund with a $10 million pot of gold for grants to founders.  That's right, if you're a worthy founder you can get up to $250K from fbFund provided [...]

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Cubic's revolutionary services launch

September 18, 2007

I've been chatting with Pat Phelan about Cubic Telecom's MaxRoam SIM and phones, which which were launched yesterday at TC40, for a while.  Pat says "it's a game changer", and I tend to believe him.  The offer is pretty compelling. The phones are 99 euros (or 159 euros for the Windows Mobile version), with all the usual accessories – headsets, [...]

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InMedialog: a new blogging voice.

September 18, 2007

"It's done!  The circle is complete.  The monster lives!" I suppose if I was a mad scientist I might say something like that. But I'm not, so I'll just welcome the team at InMedia to the blogosphere.  Francis Moran, the big cheese at InMedia, blames it all on me… and I suppose I might have had [...]

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Integration: part of a successful customer experience.

September 17, 2007

Andy Abramson published a piece over the weekend offering some suggestions for FWD's new Facebook voicemail application.  His comments are dead-on for all VoIP applications today, suggesting that integration with the customers existing services is critical to success, and I am sure that the FWD team must be already planning to do some of these.  [...]

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Time for a voice rEvolution.

September 17, 2007

Is Vonage's day finally done?  It certainly seems that it might be the case.  Over the weekend a good friend phoned me about his home office.  He does three or four hours of business calling per day, and wants to start doing more of it from home. He wanted to know what the best choice [...]

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