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Squawk Box – July 2, 2008

by Dan York on July 3, 2008

On the Squawk Box for Wednesday, July 2, 2008, we talked about:

news that Google and Yahoo would start indexing Flash-based websites.
Adobe handed over control of PDF to ISO so that it is an approved standard.
Amazon discovered that cloud computing made a great platform for… spammers!
In some circumstances, encrypted VoIP calls can be interpreted.
Starbucks closing of over 600 locations.
Changes in tax laws in the state of Washington and the impact to online sales.

Show notes and links can be found on the call’s web page.

On the call: Dan York (host), Dameon Welch-Abernathy, James Body, Jeanette Fisher, William Volk, Jeb Brillian, Jonathen Jensen and Ian Hood.

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We started out with a great set of topics for the Squawk Box this morning and then… disaster struck. The recording stopped. Currently we at iotum are working with our hardware partner ThinkEngine to find a resolution to this problem, but occasionally it strikes. Anyway, the result? Although we had a great conversation about four topics, you get to listen to the first two only.

Enjoy the call. We discussed the use of Twitter as a communications bus on the internet, and also Microsoft’s decision to adopt ODF, PDF, and the XML paper document formats.

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