Pal David “Mr. Blog” Beckemeyer just put Helio under the bus, and considering David’s former company, the company he co-founded, Earthlink, is a significant investor in Helio, this is big talk from someone who knows. Aside from their beautiful and bubbly PR person Brooke Hammerling, Helio has never done a thing for me. Beyond that … Read more
Client Thomas Howe and pal Jeff Pulver are hosting the VON.x Unconference as part of this years VON conference on March 18 & 19. The unConference comes right on the heels of eComm, so smart birds are going to stick around over the weekend between the two events. I think given the weekend is between … Read more
MomatHome’s Judi Sohn has become my hero. Ironically she’s been working on a threaded series of posts on her blog that help with the idea of “Do I move to Google Apps” at the same time I’m looking at making the switch from Exchange and Entourage due to the sheer volume of mail and the … Read more
I had a call last night from on of my friends who is no longer with Level3. I continue to be amazed how the company can start to grow and then shoot themselves in the foot. The idea of loyalty to employees is not in the company’s DNA as people who have significantly helped correct … Read more
I love when companies give Walt Mossberg something to test, and like it even more when Walt tries extra hard to make something easy to understand like he did today. Basically in his review of the T-Mobile @ HOME service he points out the warts of the system, especially the Home Alarm system and Fax … Read more
iotum‘s Alec Saunders loves to blog. Abbeynet’s Luca Filigheddu loves to blog. Truphone’s Dean Elwood runs a social community forum called VoIP User. Together, as a result of the blogosphere, friendship and some wine, as well as a gentle push by moi, along with new opportunity to blend VoIP, alternative access, the hot Facebook platform … Read more
iotum‘s Alec Saunders loves to blog. Abbeynet’s Luca Filigheddu loves to blog. Truphone’s Dean Elwood runs a social community forum called VoIP User. Together, as a result of the blogosphere, friendship and some wine, as well as a gentle push by moi, along with new opportunity to blend VoIP, alternative access, the hot Facebook platform … Read more
iotum’s Alec Saunders loves to blog. Abbeynet’s Luca Filigheddu blog. Truphone’s Dean Elwood runs a social community forum. Together, as a result of the blogosphere, friendship and some wine, as well as a gentle push by moi, a new opportunity to blend VoIP, alternative access, the hot Facebook platform with some very cool new ways … Read more
eBay in what could be viewed as an inside corporate deck chair shuffling type move has named a new CEO for Skype. I say could, because the selected CEO actually brings some very good chops to the once disruptive telco-pipe-IM player, and he himself has been on the leading edge with at least two companies. … Read more
We all remember the video of the Comcast repairman falling asleep on the job. Now this report is emerging about how their repair folks didn’t come to fix a broken cable modem because when they called the person, no one answered the phone line, which of course is Voice over IP. Would it have hurt … Read more
