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Announcing Om's NewTeeVee Station!

June 10, 2008

It’s hard not to admire the trajectory of Om Malik as he cuts a broad swath across the blogosphere. First with GigaOm, then Web Worker Daily and NewTeeVee, he has been recruiting quality journalists to do what journalists do best – report the news. Today, NewTeeVeeStation launches at Midnight eastern time. A spinoff of the [...]

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mDialog: I'll pass.

May 22, 2008

I’ve been giving the mDialog application a whirl here at Mesh 08.  The promise of mDialog is that you will be able to easily share video, via the mDialog site, with your friends on iPod and via QuickTime.  So I uploaded the video of Ethan Kaplan and Mathew Ingram to the site to check it [...]

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Sightspeed Light, for MySpace

April 23, 2008

The team at Sightspeed upped the ante on video chat yesterday, announcing Sightspeed Light, for MySpace. They’re offering video mail, public video posting, and video chat to MySpace users.  And in a move reminiscent of some other startups, like Seesmic and Hictu, they’re offering threaded video conversations as well.  Record a short video, post it [...]

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Squawk Box April 10

April 10, 2008

Are you a developer? Ever been frustrated by the availability of data needed to run your application? Think white pages directories, maps, navigation, or CD song and album art info. This morning we debate the merits of Bret Taylor’s notion that we need a Wikipedia for Data — a commons, equivalent to open source software, [...]

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Squawk Box April 1 – microblogging systems.

April 1, 2008

Today's Squawk Box was about micro blogging systems. We had a healthy representation of folks discussing the why's and what for's of Twitter, Jaiku, Hictu and more.  A question of media type also led to a heated discussion around video calling and video micro-blogging.  All in all, one of the more interesting calls we've had. [...]

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Squawk Box March 18

March 19, 2008

A lively and interactive Squawk Box from San Jose California today! We discussed Lifestream Aggregators — FriendFeed, Twitter, Plaxo Pulse and so on.  There were a few people who shared their experiences, good and bad.  We also discussed Broadsoft's new eXtended — a platform play to compete with Ribbit in the web telephony mashup space. And [...]

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Serena Glover: Share on Ovi

February 15, 2008

Serena Glover is one of those entrepreneurs who exudes enthusiasm.  Her company, Twango, was acquired last year by Nokia. At Mobile World Congress, the service was relaunched as Share on Ovi.  I had an opportunity to speak with her during the show, and use the software soon after. Some of the goals for Share on [...]

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Mobile video might possibly, maybe…

June 15, 2007

This morning Techmeme surfaced a news release put out yesterday on Businesswire that came with the following headline: The Number of Customers Actually Purchasing Mobile Video Service Could Climb from Only Five Million at the End of 2006 to Almost 80 Million by the End of 2012. I had to reread the headline twice, just to make sure it [...]

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Vringo expands their footprint to J2ME

May 9, 2007

Is the world ready for video ringtones?  Certainly the team at Vringo thinks so.  Vringo is a new startup which has combined elements of social networking with video  ringtones / ringback tones, to create an intriguing new service.  It allows you to: share videos with your friends who are also Vringo users. specify a video [...]

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Saying goodbye to voice mail.

April 30, 2007

Here's the latest video demo of Talk-Now.  It's the first video showing showing the To-Call / Waiting to Talk to Me functionality which we debuted last week at the Gartner Symposium.  For the first time, you can now signal your need to talk with another person using Talk-Now.  Starting your call with "is now a good [...]

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