I know I’m in the minority, but I really don’t want ads with my WiFi. Personally, I’d rather pay and get a really good and consistent experience, or just check-in and turn on or have it done right the way AT&T has done it with Starbucks, where you’re being gifted the access for your loyalty, … Read more
The Wall Street Journal has a story on Webcams being used in inventive ways. One is to keep an eye on a person’s vacation home, another is tied to a home alarm system. I’ve been doing something like that with the auto-answer feature of SightSpeed during the never ending phase of my house’s reconstruction. I … Read more
One of the hotels I always enjoyed in New York City was the Righa Royal. Well, like many things it has come, and gone. It’s time has passed and the owners now have a shiny new hotel called the London NYC. Well folks, the London NYC, like the Hotel 1000 in Seattle, is Working_Anywhere Approved. … Read more
The sale of Ribbit to British Telecom, which was delayed for sometime for reasons likely having to do with internal matters, has apparently closed. 105 million is a pretty price, and I expect to see some other companies grabbed in the next few months as M&A activity is heating up. In the case of Ribbit … Read more
Chicago based Comunicano client, IfByPhone, was featured in today’s Chicago Sun-Times. The story placement is the work of my virtually based asymmetrical communications agency staff’s teamwork approach, collaborating using tools like Basecamp from 37Signals and other web and IP based services. The key to this story is about being big in your own back yard, … Read more
Chicago based Comunicano client, IfByPhone, was featured in today’s Chicago Sun-Times. The story placement is the work of my virtually based asymmetrical communications agency staff’s teamwork approach, collaborating using tools like Basecamp from 37Signals and other web and IP based services. The key to this story is about being big in your own back yard, … Read more
Telstra Clear looks very interesting from afar. It’s a hosted VoIP service designed for the five or more type offices. What I find interesting though is it is woven over the fabric of the telco network in New Zealand. This means integration from the core to the edge, and a single source provider. It’s what … Read more
For those of you who are mobile and just can’t stay in the office, I’ve posted my second in series of “Tools for Global Nomads” on my OTHER blog, called “Working Anywhere.” If you missed the first one, it can be found here. Why another blog some have asked? That’s simple. The nature of blogging … Read more
It’s not all technology all the time, but being a Global Nomad means using the technology available to you to find other essentials that make your life easier and since you’re on the road, who says life has to be rough. What’s more who said it need to be a burden. Over the past few … Read more
Scheduling meetings is much easier, now that Tungle, an agency client, has released their Blackberry client. But don’t take my word for it. Take global tech journalist Paul Taylor’s. Paul compared the various online scheduling services out there and Tungle came out on top.
