January 2008

Invitation to the Pulver un-Conference agenda bash

January 29, 2008

Interested in un-conferences? Telephony? At Spring VON we'll be doing another of these events. Tomorrow at 10 AM, Pulvermedia is hosting an "Agenda Bash" with Tom Howe, myself, Carl Ford and Brough Turner. If you'd like to participate, then please visit this webinar page to join us! And if you don't know what an un-conference [...]

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iotum’s biggest release yet!

January 29, 2008

It's been a crazy couple of weeks, as we've been jamming new features into the iotum FREE Conference Call application for Facebook. We've reached an inflection point where usage is really starting to ramp, and feature requests are beginning to pour in. That's meant lots of work, especially in support of teleseminars, where a number [...]

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SquawkBox January 28

January 28, 2008

We had another great SquawkBox session this morning, discussing: The issue of forced invites on Facebook applications. Some of the fastest growing Facebook applications of late have been those that require users to invite other users PRIOR to installing the application. It's provoking a small backlash on Facebook. There's now a group called "No, I [...]

January 28 Squawk Box [ 19:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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DEMO 2008 kicks off today

January 28, 2008

That's right – the annual new products show is kicking off today. Over the weekend, Ribbit VP Don Thorson pinged me to tell me that they would be showing. TechCrunch and GigaOm are both giving previews of the Ribbit offering. In addition, Montreal-based StandOut Jobs will also be debuting. I plan to keep an eye [...]

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Reminder: Ottawa DemoCamp 7

January 28, 2008

It's tonight! There will be some very interesting demos too, as always. I'm looking forward to JohnnyVoIP, myself. We'll also be demoing our new FREE Conference Call release (big changes!) which should be out later today. See you there. What: DemoCamp 7 Six demos by members of the Ottawa high tech community. Read more about [...]

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Courtney on mobile Skype

January 28, 2008

For those interested in mobile Skype, Jim Courtney's guest column on GigaOm is a must read. He does a great job of explaining what can be done within the constraints of today's mobile networks, and what might be possible in the future. As well, he finishes with a nice plug for Open Access.

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F8ce the music.

January 27, 2008

Facebook applications are declining in popularity; developers are to blame. Are Facebook users beginning to tire of the tactics used by application developers to create virality? It certainly looks that way. The latest spammy tactic is to force potential users to invite others to use the application before doing anything of value. The backlash over [...]

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Jajah and Hictu! join forces

January 26, 2008

Earlier this week, Abbeynet and Jajah announced a new relationship, that has Abbeynet’s Hictu! coupled with Jajah for calling. I have to admit, I was surprised. Luca Filigheddu’s Abbeynet also provides services similar to Jajah, although perhaps not with the same penetration into the market place, or the same global footprint. Even Luca will admit [...]

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3 great changes in Facebook applications

January 26, 2008

Facebook has made some very cool changes to the way that the "About" page on an application works, in the last couple of days. About pages now behave very much like fan pages. Users can become fans of applications, for example. Fans can receive update messages from the application owner, which is a much needed [...]

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Squawk Box January 25

January 25, 2008

This morning's Squawk Box was particularly lively. We had a great cross section of people on the call including regulars Randall Howard, Jim Courtney, Howard Thaw, and newcomers Brad Dixon, Gernot Ross, and Nick Desbarats. We discussed the situation with Scrabulous, Facebook's platform and the businesses it has spawned, Microsoft's earnings results, and Sprint and [...]

Squawk Box Jan 25 [ 25:08 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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