Yesterday Yahoo and Vapps confirmed their doing the conference thing at VON. Yahoo also had a dinner which I skipped in favor of a dinner that I organized around wine and food for friends, colleagues and some online writing pals. I can guarantee the wine, 12 bottles from my personal collection and one brought by … Read more
Om has posted a pretty concise preview about VON. I’m heading over and will provide some on the scene coverage as time permits. I can confirm that xConnect is the company in the peering play Om’s talking about and that Vapps is the company, according to my sources doing the conferencing deal with Yahoo. Yahoo’s … Read more
In what must be a change of the way Chris Shipley is running Demo this year for IDG I just heard that JahJah, the Sequoia backed startup will be one of the companies at DEMO so they must have something up their sleeve. Demo is one of the best conferences for finding NEW technology and … Read more
This is not going to be a rebuttal to Jeff Pulver’s post on PR, because as a member of both the press and the PR fraternity, I can share his perspective, support his views and more importantly understand the pain. Also, please read the comments from Pal Alan Weinkrantz, who sums up nicely what I … Read more
I’m fully in agreement that the current baseline offerings from cable and DSL providers in the USA provides what is best subsistence level Broadband. I know, many people aren’t power users who are taking advantage of what IP has to offer, but those early adopters like me, and anyone else who knows how to download, … Read more
Tuesday is Jeff Pulver’s Birthday and many of us will be at VON. In honor of Mr. VON, let’s all wear Hawaiian Shirts on Tuesday to show our warmest wishes to Jeff. Those needing one can easily find Hawaiian style shirts in Boston at locations selling Tommy Bahama.
A little birdie told me that Yahoo may be aiming to take a bite out of Skype’s efforts to be the online voice conference calling harbinger. I’m hoping to learn more next week but on the heals of the AOL Developer Program news, it clearly shows the Voice 2.0 is alive, well and starting to … Read more
Alec has shared his first person perscpective on the iotum/AOL relationship. His words tell it best.
First let me be open on this post. I have agency clients that are involved in this program so I just let the official AOL announcement go out first about the AIM PhoneLine program before posting and as is my style when clients are involved, I never lead off. Ever since the idea of an … Read more
First let me be open on this post. I have agency clients that are involved in this program so I just let the official AOL announcement go out first about the AIM PhoneLine program before posting and as is my style when clients are involved, I never lead off. Ever since the idea of an … Read more
