Another Accolade for Fonolo

For a company still at the angel round, Fonolo continues to garner the kind of attention that consumer brands crave to be awarded. This time it was from trendspotting Springwise, an 8,000+ person early “things to watch, things to know about” organization.

Where I’ll Be In Q1 2009

I am working hard at not going on the road as much in 2009 as the last 20 months have been rather exhausting. Between the planning of my two wedding events in 2007, the two events, one in Montpeyroux France and the other in San Francisco, plus the extended renovations in my community to 90 … Read more

Ringful is So Me Too

Back in 2005 client Iotum went to Demo, captured a Demo god award for Pronto, a conference all and calendar mashup that brought intelligence to the conference calling arena. Last year client ifByPhone rolled out what Professor Mashup Thomas Howe calls one of the easiest to use Voice API platforms around. Now I see Ringful … Read more

Om Doesn’t Like NetBooks

Om Malik is a Mac fan through and through. So I have to wonder if he changes his opinion of NetBooks and joins the rest of us who have embraced them already when (if) Apple comes out with one of their own. You see, there are times for my Mac Book Pro or Mac Book … Read more

Print is Dead, Radio Is Next

History always repeats. No question about that. First media form to grow big was the newspaper. Chains emerged. Profits soared. The most powerful force in any community was the newspaper. Think about it, every major comic strip from SuperMan, to the Green Hornet to Spiderman had the newspaper as a center piece of the story … Read more

Netbooks and Portability

Last weekend I went into RadioShack and grabbed one of the Acer Aspire One Netbooks for $99.00. Yes, I already have a few other Asus and even a original release Aspire One from six months or so back, but this one is different. It has 3G inside and works on HSDPA via AT&T. Add in … Read more

“Me Too” Is Still Around It Seems

It was back in 2005 when at the suggestion of a few friends at AOL, namely Jim Tobin, who is now at Comast, Cindy Harvey and Ragui Kamel invited me to “shake up” an AOL creative session by being the protagonist on a panel that included uber analysts Mark Winther of IDC and other that … Read more