December 2007

Read the Golden Compass with a child.

December 23, 2007

A couple of weeks ago we went as a family to see The Golden Compass.  Afterward, I was mystified by the fuss that the Catholic League in the United States has made about the movie.  The movie is a harmless children's fantasy, with a young girl named Lyra as the protagonist.  I enjoyed it, and couldn't see anything sacreligious [...]

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Truphone continues free calling promo

December 22, 2007

Truphone’s promotion offering free calling must be working for them.  Else why continue it?  As I was cleaning out my inbox on the drive to the Cape yesterday, I found this small announcement in my inbox: First, the company has confirmed that its mobile VoIP service is supported on five new Wi-Fi-equipped Nokia handsets: the [...]

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Acer's kickin' M5620 is a steal!

December 21, 2007

I got myself an early Christmas present last week.  While shopping for a Wii for my kids (and yes I got one — thank you to all the folks who had their eyes out for one for us), I stumbled upon a special that Future Shop was running here in Canada.  They had the Acer [...]

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VoIP is Plumbing.

December 21, 2007

I've been saying for a while that VoIP has become boring. Ken Camp says it much better than I.  He says VoIP is just plumbing — a commodity item.  And he boldly predicts that companies who can't figure this out, and start focusing on applications, are going to fail in 2008.  Worth a read.  Merry Christmas [...]

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Voxeo announces Designer 8

December 21, 2007

Voxeo has just announced the Voxeo Designer 8, a new call control designer for their hosted platform.  I haven't used Designer 8, but other similar tools include ThinkEngine's CallFlowDesigner, Telephony2 CallButler (which integrates such a tool), and Angel.com.  The pioneers in this space were Pronexus with their VBVoice.   All allow scripts to be created, graphically, which can then [...]

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How about a social directory?

December 20, 2007

The last posting I wrote about Spock has touched a nerve among more than a few people in the blogging world.  Both Irwin and Andy have responded saying "enough is enough! who needs another social network".  Andy writes: Do we really need more networks, or do we need to get more from the ones we [...]

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Google:more than Sync with Blackberry

December 20, 2007

Om Malik is crowing about how great Google Calendar on BlackBerry is.  I don't use Google Calendar, so it's hard for me to really pass judgement on it, as I am not about to go and shift one of my core business productivity tools for a "test drive".  It's a fact, thought, that more and [...]

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Pew says Teens still use the phone

December 20, 2007

The non-profit Pew Internet & American Life project regularly cranks out incredibly valuable market research.  Their latest study on Teens and Social Media is no exception.  It compares use of different kinds of social media between boys and girls, and the different media channels they use. To give you an idea of the quality of [...]

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Marketing Facebook applications.

December 20, 2007

For Facebook marketers, Rodney Rumford has a couple of choice items up on FaceReviews this morning: His Facebook Marketing and Apps slides from the graphing social conference in October are a worth a look.  They're a basic overview of all the ways you can market a Facebook application. His interview with the creators of SendHotness [...]

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Digium announces 1 million downloads

December 19, 2007

The team at Digium cranked out a nice little momentum release this morning, announcing "the one millionth download of Asterisk in 2007".  Was that one million downloads in 2007, or the one millionth overall since the inception of the company?  Either way it's a huge number, when you consider that Asterisk is a PBX.  How [...]

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