The world is a very small place and thanks to the Internet has gotten even smaller. Friendships get developed and you stay in touch over great distances on a regular basis, or just know what’s going on thanks to all kinds of means that just a few years ago never were there. When Marc suffered … Read more
Client Alec Saunders reports on the rapid adoption of the free Facebook conference calling application that iotum has developed. With three clients (iotum, Truphone and Voxalot) who have developed really cool apps for FaceBook, I’m seeing Jeff Pulver’s claim that FaceBook is really an operating system take hold. My one modifier to that is its … Read more
Rich Tehrani reports on the demise of CompUSA, which is something I’m not surprised to see. With online shopping for electronics offering way more in the way of product selection, easy to find reviews and lots of unbiased and biased information out there consumers have real choices. The biggest dilemma retailers face in the USA … Read more
With ex Jajah spin master Don Thorson over at Ribbit I’m not surprised at the slow build that we’re going to be hearing about which Tom Keating has reported on. Ribbit is based upon FLEX and the upcoming Flash 10 audio and video engine will do a lot to help them. Adobe is going to … Read more
Alec has a riveting post about the Blog Council that is being formed by some of the largest companies in the world to get a grip on things. Fortunately what this means is more time out of the office for corporate suits who need to then hire agencies to do the work so I’m happy … Read more
Baseline has a first hand report on the impact of Telepresence from Cisco just a few days before Cisco’s analyst conference in San Jose begins. I’m expecting some news about how they are going to extend below the $300,000 an install price point and make it easy for inter-connection between their platform and the road … Read more
Baseline has a first hand report on the impact of Telepresence from Cisco just a few days before Cisco’s analyst conference in San Jose begins. I’m expecting some news about how they are going to extend below the $300,000 an install price point and make it easy for inter-connection between their platform and the road … Read more
Elvis Presley’s “A Little More Conversation” has always been a favorite of mine since the producers of Las Vegas made it their USA intro music a few years ago. When I read this story about Skype this morning in the Observer I couldn’t but help and take notice and think of that tune as I … Read more
Skype doesn’t like 911 regulatory efforts in the USA and has done all they can in their messaging to keep away from the FCC on that point. Well it looks like in the UK they won’t be able to stay away from the OFCOM folks very long. You see, the DUCK test (if it looks … Read more
Jeff Pulver, whom I’m looking forward to catching up with in Paris during Les Web 3 next week, has declared that Tel Aviv is the home/hub and hotbed of high tech development. I’d say its one of the best and that many great technologies start there. When you think about the size of Israel, and … Read more
