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Squawk Box Jan 29

January 29, 2008

Discussed on this morning's call… Nokia has agreed to acquire Trolltech for about $150 milion.   Trolltech makes cross platform tools for developing graphical applications.  It's flagship product Qt allows you to develop software for Windows, Java, and Linux.  QTopia is a graphical platform for Linux. Companies like Skype, Adobe and Google uses these technologies today.  [...]

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DemoCamp 7: Jan 28

January 22, 2008

Ottawa DemoCamp 7 is happening on Monday of next week, January 28.  On tap are: 'Protecode Demo' – demonstration of a tool that unobtrusively detects, logs, and identifies external content during software development. This tool is used to automatically create records of Intellectual Property ownership and licensing attributes of external code (eg Open Source modules [...]

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Squawk Box: A Public Experiment

January 11, 2008

I'm a big believer in the whole "eat your own dogfood" ethos in product development.  People who eat their own dog food use their own products to understand how well they work,and what can be done with them.  So, I'm going to run a public podcasting experiment, and you're invited to participate.  On a daily [...]

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The Privacy Manifesto caused a ripple

January 9, 2008

Yesterday was a pretty exciting day on the privacy and data portability front.  I didn't have any inkling of what was coming up next after publishing the Privacy Manifesto on GigaOm, but shortly after Plaxo, Facebook and Google all joined the Data Portability working group.  That's great news, and I myself have committed to the [...]

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Looking for teleseminar leaders

January 7, 2008

We're looking for teleseminar leaders; specifically people who run large calls with lots of users on the line.  You know who you are.  Typically, you're using a free conference calling service, today.  We have a better solution for you with iotum FREE Conference Calls on Facebook, and we'd like to show you how that works. [...]

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Facebook applications as promotional tools

January 2, 2008

FaceReviews takes Sony to task for their Santa Snowglobe application.  Sony had a good idea for a way to spread the Sony brand throughout Facebook, and then because of poor execution, was only able to achieve 450 installs during the holiday season.  Rodney Rumford explains why. At iotum we attempted the same strategy as Sony [...]

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Happy New Year Conference continues!

January 1, 2008

It's been a fascinating evening so far.  We're working our way up to the second countdown for the evening, in about 10 minutes.  On the first countdown, in the eastern time zone, we had people calling in from parties, including 15 women who crowded into a bathroom in an Alabama bar to shout out Happy [...]

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Staying home on New Years Eve.

December 31, 2007

As a nation, we Canadians aren't party animals.  According to the paper this morning, just 6% of us will be going out for the all-out New Years party this evening, and fully 40% of us aren't planning to party at all… not even at someone's house!  Me, well… I'll be hosting our fabulous North America [...]

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Viral testing. How large a conference call can we organize?

October 23, 2007

We'll be doing a little load testing on the iotum FREE Conference Call application tomorrow afternoon.  I've invited 39 of my friends to join me on a test call.   With a little luck, the facebook viral gods will turn my 39 friends into 390 or so as they each tell two friends and so on and so on and [...]

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Walks like a telco, talks like a telco… must be a telco.

September 26, 2007

Vonage's latest woes are written up by Om Malik in Vonage: How Low Can You Go.  More interesting than Om's reportage (Sprint wins case, Vonage ordered to pay damages, stock drops to $1.30) is the commentary afterward, in which one reader takes Om to task for the "gleeful" way in which he reports the demise [...]

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