November 2007

Voxcall launches on Facebook

November 20, 2007

I got a note in my mailbox about Voxalot's launch of their Voxcall service.  They now have a Facebook Voxcall application as well. It's a dead simple service — combine a SIP URI with a click to call application, and now you can call anyone in the world.  I popped my Truphone SIP URI into [...]

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Give a kid a laptop this holiday

November 20, 2007

Friends Mark Goldberg, Jon Arnold, and Mark Evans have all written about the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and their current promotion.  Basically, if you spend $399 on an OLPC for a child before the end of day November 26, they will ship you a laptop, a $200 tax receipt, AND they will send another to [...]

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The Canadian Facebook experience

November 20, 2007

I was really quite surprised two weeks ago at VON to find myself in a room full of Facebook skeptics.  These folks were no luddites either.  They were "la creme" of the technology industry.  The vast majority of them, however, expressed disbelief at the value of Facebook in a business setting, and concern over privacy. [...]

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iotum.mobi: a “feel good” story

November 19, 2007

Among the legions of legitimate domain holders on the internet are a band of squatters that make a living from holding corporate trademarks hostage.  These folks look to snatch the identities of companies by registering domain names that use or mimic that corporations trademarks.  Then they ransom these names back to the owner of that [...]

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iotum.mobi: a "feel good" story

November 19, 2007

Among the legions of legitimate domain holders on the internet are a band of squatters that make a living from holding corporate trademarks hostage.  These folks look to snatch the identities of companies by registering domain names that use or mimic that corporations trademarks.  Then they ransom these names back to the owner of that [...]

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Jajah wakes up

November 19, 2007

Has anyone noticed that the Jajah PR machine seems to have suddenly come back to life?  From late May of last year, when they announced their $20 million series B financing, the company has been silent.  Now, suddenly, in the last week we have: A strategic relationship with Jangl, where Jangl taps into Jajah's global [...]

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Jajah Direct: Forget the PC. Just call.

November 19, 2007

Jajah announced their new Jajah Direct service this morning.  In a nutshell, now you can have dial-in numbers to make Jajah calls.  It completely removes the need to have a computer.  You simply pick up the phone and call a local number, enter the number of the person you wish to reach internationally, and the [...]

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Call your family and enter to win an 8G iPod Touch

November 19, 2007

UPDATE: The Thanksgiving promotion was so successful, that we're DOING IT AGAIN! Anybody making a call using FREE Conference Calls of at least 5 minutes between now and midnight New Years Eve is eligible to win.  FREE Conference Calls on Facebook is already a great service, with thousands of people signed up to use it.  Now we've [...]

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Ottawa Barcamp 4: a gathering of geeks!

November 17, 2007

I've been spending the day at Barcamp 4 in Ottawa.  About 120 people showed up for the event.  I participated directly in two events: the international DemoCamp from Leeds England, and a session on tips and tricks for building a business on Facebook.  I think the Facebook session was well received but despite the best [...]

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Colossus Reconstructed

November 15, 2007

A high school friend of mine collects PDP-series minicomputers as a hobby.  I'll bet he's got nothing on this, though.  An English group has reconstructed a WWII Colossus code breaker used to decode encrypted German communications. 

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