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Om Stews on Vonage’s Numbers

Vonage got put under the Omscope and it’s not pretty…not at all. He’s being kinder than I would be. I don’t “buy” the numbers and have to figure out where the “intermediate” accounting work was done. Lucky for Vonage I never got past Accounting 101, choosing to shift gears and major in Journalism.

Iotum: DemoGod Winner

May I gloat? Well I shall. Client, friends and timely Web 2.0 platform iotum company captured a DemoGod award and I couldn’t be happier. This was a team effort that is a shining example of planning your work and working your plan. Demo Coach Shel Israel, Messaging Guru Bill Ryan, Account Associate Brooke Davidson and … Read more

Report–VONAGE FILES 250 Million IPO

According to a Dow Jones report, Vonage has filed their IPO and S-1. Here’s the filing via the SEC. This is for a lot less than the money people were originally expecting VONAGE to raise, and given their last two rounds, one has to wonder what the valuation is for the entire company. Also, Jeffery … Read more

DEMO-EQO

EQO, based in Vancouver, BC has developed a way to take Skype with you on a cell phone. It’s sorta neat, but what it really does is manage Skype forward/skype in/skype out. The real play is how they can bring any online community to the handset, but on the Circuit Switched side, not the Data … Read more

DEMO-My People

An offshoot of Momentum Telecom. My People debuted something old at DEMO today. As excited as I’d like to be about their VoIP offering which brings together a lot of easy to use features, for me, I’ve been using the same type of features with Webley since 1998. For others this is something new, so … Read more

iotum Goes under Om’s Microscope and More

Om Malik has been on top of the iotum story almost since the beginning. Om has taken the time to put his market centric analyst like mind to work about one of the markets that iotum will play in, that market being conference calling. Like Om, others have started to see the relevance that iotum … Read more

Skype Dances With Intel

Today Skype and Intel play ball according to EE Times. Now all someone needs to do is really improve the sound input on most PC’s. While Macs already have advanced audio input and output, the key that is needed to really make this take sector take off are the kind of advancements in echo cancellation … Read more

DEMO-PLUM

Plum is a very cool photo sharing, blog powering and RSS powered service platform. I saw the new Yahoo Photos platform too, and a lot of the questions I had posed to Yahoo’s spokespersons and demo team seem to be already integrated into Plum.

DEMO-BiggerBoat

BiggerBoat.com is a vertical search site for digital entertainment, aggregating the search results and then getting contextual. It makes ad serving and shopping much more related. They are going beyond product but also into event search too. They’re hot on the concept of relevance, and so am I. Relevancy seems to be a key here … Read more

DEMO-ID Vault

For fifty dollars or less, wikth idVault you can secure your passwords and logons for all kinds of web sites, financial services and more. It’s a guard against identity theft and has a place in everyone’s life.