This morning we were fortunate enough to have two of my favorite presenters from DEMO yesterday. Both of these companies are delivering ground breaking products, and in entirely different markets.
We started with Joe Eschbach Plastic Logic, creators of flexible plastic display technologies. Yesterday they unveiled their eReader, which looks fabulous. It’s certainly going to make people think twice about Kindle, especially since, for business users, it allows you to load all kinds of documents, as well as books. Check out the video of their product.
Following Joe, Justin Hayward of Telnic joined us. Telnic are the creators of the .tel top level domain. A .tel domain allows you to add business card style information — telephone numbers, addresses, and so on — to the DNS system, once and for all resolving the issue of where the telecom directory lives. Long time readers of the blog will know I’ve been predicting that something like this would occur since writing the Voice 2.0 Manifesto.
On the Calliflower Conference Call this morning: Dan Rockwell, Hudson Barton, Brad Jones, Dan York, Jim Courtney, Mark Hewitt, Jeb Brilliant, Greg Manto, Ian Hood, Bill Volk, Warren Bent, Phil Wolff, Todd Spraggins, Joey DeVilla, Tom Orr, and Greg McQuay.
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Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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I just watched the DEMO presentation of the Plastic Logic Reader. That is hands down the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. Jaw dropping technology.
I would buy that in a second.
I just got my vip.tel trial yesterday and I’ve been tinkering with it since. Interesting future with this .tel domains. For those interested in seeing what the page looks like, check out mine http://jamarie.vip.tel
This Kindle is fantastic! Was worried about losing the feel of a book in my hands and the joy of browsing through a bookstore but I must say, this was the best purchase I have made in ages! I have read six books on my Kindle in 5 weeks, two of them were free!! A simply "must have" for any avid reader.
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