Archive for October 13th, 2008
Event: Breakfast with Jeff Pulver and Friends in NYC on October 27th
On Monday, October 27th I will be in New York City and hosting another edition of Breakfast with Jeff Pulver (and Friends) in NYC at Friend of a Farmer, 77 Irving Place, from 8-10AM. Readers of my blog are invited to join us. To RSVP, please visit this event on Facebook. Everyone attending this breakfast will receive a “Personal Social Networking Toolkit as described below: — Readers of my blog are invited to join me on both twitter and Facebook. Tags: breakfast, Personal So...
AT&T Calls on Wal-Mart, Circuit City for Triple Play
Just when you were ready to give up cable altogether and watch TV on your computer, telecommunication companies start aggressively rolling out fast new ways to get TV, Internet and voice services — do I hear “Triple Play”? And they really, really want your business. AT&T has announced it would begin selling its AT&T U-verse TV and U-verse High Speed Internet services in Circuit City and Wal-Mart stores across the country. U-verse uses a hybrid network of fast fibe...
Less Merry Xmas: Sony Keeping PS3 Pricing As Is
Sony has ruled out cutting the price of the PlayStation 3 console before Christmas, insisting that the PS3 is better value than rivals half its price. (Maybe time to rethink that in today’s — or at least last week’s — economy?) With up to 50% of video game sales made in the run-up to Christmas, Sony is gambling that despite the weak economy, consumers will not just buy the cheapest machine. If they do, Sony could lose further ground to Nintendo’s Wii and to Mic...
Mikogo: free desktop sharing with Skype
Mikogo spun off in July 2007, from BeamYourScreen.com, a Mannheim, Germany, company. Since then, fifty thousand users registered for free desktop sharing. They publish a Mikogo Skype extra, a small plug-in program, so you can start screen sharing sessions from within Skype, using Skype contacts. Nearly ten thousand downloads of the extra. People use Mikogo for poker training and other live distance education. Companies use Mikogo for technical support, using the remote controlled desktop and f...
Join the Breakfast with Jeff Pulver (and friends) Mailing List
During 2008 I have hosted more than 30 breakfast events in 17 cities around the world. I am currently working on my breakfast schedule for the weeks and months ahead. If you would like to be notified when new breakfast events are added to my schedule: - Send an email to: listserv@listserv.pulver.com - Leave the subject blank - In the body of the message write subscribe tour-updates — Tags: breakfast, Personal Social Media Toolkit, social media, facebook, Social Media Breakfast, Jeff Pul...
Run Windows Mobile on the iPhone
Apparently, a young a Norwegian developer named Erik Kristiansen has developed an application that lets you run Windows Mobile on the iPhone! Now why would someone go and do something like that? How bout actual copy/paste that works, plus the ability to run 3rd party apps in the background? The video is an interview taken at MyPhone 2008 and he explains that he has essentially created bootcamp for the iPhone. When the phone powers on, you see the Windows and Apple logos allowing you to select b...
Jon Arnold interviews me about voice and web services, cloud computing and more
Is the role of “voice” diminished or enhanced by the availability of web services? How does voice fit into the “cloud”? Where do service providers fit into the picture? Out at ITEXPO last month in Los Angeles, industry analyst Jon Arnold asked me (Dan York) to participate in a series of video interviews he was recording for his IPConvergence.TV site. In the interview, which is now available for viewing, we talked about “voice-enabling” business processes, w...
BarCamp Tampa Bay
BarCamp Tampa Bay was held this weekend at USF College of Business. Over 350 people pre-registered for this Un-conference. (Don’t know what a BarCamp is? See BarCamp.org.) Ours was just one of 4 worldwide this weekend - South Africa, Houston, Little Rock and Tampa Bay. The whole idea behind BarCamp is that everyone shares, learns, participates. It is engaging. There isn’t an agenda - until the morning of, when the participants design it. We had 3 or more rooms going with over 6...
Global IP Solutions Launches Video Calling for Windows Mobile Phones
Today, Global IP Solutions launched peer-to-peer video calling and multi-point video conferencing capabilities on Windows Mobile-based phones called GIPS VideoEngine Mobile. As part of this release, it only runs on specific Windows Mobile models, however, future plans for Symbian phones and iPhones as well as other Windows Mobile devices are planned. Using GIPS VideoEngine Mobile, wireless carriers, application developers and mobile handset manufacturers can provide high-quality video calls, eve...
Cisco Lays Off Texas Broadband Telephony Employees
Cisco on Friday said in a filing that it planned to close its Broadband Telephony Services unit in the Richardson, Texas, office and will lay off 129 employees between Oct. 8 and Dec. 12. The networking giant filed this information with the Texas Workforce Commission on Oct. 10. In its letter to the commission, the company wrote, “A decision has been made by Cisco Systems Inc. to cease operations in its Broadband Telephony Services operating unit within its facility located at 2200 East P...
Vonage Email Phishing Scam
Look at this email phishing scam purportedly coming from Vonage. You know Vonage has hit the big time when scammers starts targeting them. Unfortunately, the scammers like many scammers have poor English skills making their poorly written emails a dead giveaway. Let me give the scammers some tips for the future: Spell October correctly. It’s not Octomber This is not grammatically correct (wrong tense) - “You did not accessed your account for more than a month.” Sorry, but &#...
Calliflower updates
Alec Saunders has made some performance improvements to his Calliflower conference call service application. SMS notifications are back to remind you 15 minutes before your conference call is going to take place. As much as I like the feature-set of Calliflower, I still have to get used to its name, which is a cute word play off of Cauliflower, my least liked vegetable. Why not Chocallate? Tags: Calliflower, Cauliflower Related Entries TrackBacks | Comments | Tag with del.icio.us | VoIP &...
eComm 2009 - Call for Speakers
As things develop with eComm 2009, I’ll be posting, as will others on the Advisory Board who blog. Last week was tough on blogging for me, and I didn’t get a chance to get the word out about the Call for Speakers. We’ve been steadily reviewing submissions throughout the week, and they continue to come in. A handful are quite good, some are pretty good, and some are off the mark. It all comes with the territory, and our job is to pick the best of the bunch and make them all fit...
Shuttle Driver Shares Nobel Work
When you live in a small town like Woods Hole during Nobel Prize season, it’s like living close enough to Fenway to smell the popcorn when the Sox are contenders. I’m not especially a Red Sox fan, but I am a Nobel Prize groupie. Yeah! Go Krugman! (even though I never was in the same room with him). Go Ahtisaari! (I shook his hand once). And rah, rah, rah for Shimamura, Chalfie and Tsien for winning the chemistry Prize for their amazingly useful work in flourescent proteins, much of...
AT&T Turns to Retail Channels for U-Verse
AT&T plans to sell its triple-play U-Verse services through more than 600 Circuit City and Wal-Mart retail stores beginning this month. There are a few things about this plan that just don’t make sense. First, the choice of stores, namely the floundering Circuit City is perplexing. Why not a more successful electronics retailer such as Best Buy, which already is stocking the iPhone, and working to sell other services contracts? The other odd thing about this announcement is the idea...
Is Jeff Back? Call for Speakers - Social Media Event
Very interesting post from Jeff Pulver on Friday. I’m not alone wondering about what Jeff is planning next, especially now that the VON brand has officially changed hands. It’s also interesting that I’ve got two posts today about calls for speakers. No sure what to make of that. Anyone following Jeff knows he moved on from VoIP some time ago, and even a casual read of his blog shows that his focus is mostly in social media and video. However, Friday’s post is the first pu...
Some initial impressions of the iPhone 3G…
As I wrote about recently both here on Disruptive Telephony and also over on the Voxeo weblogs, my employer, Voxeo, has made the switch from the Blackberry 8830 to the Apple iPhone as our corporate mobile phone. Employees in our Orlando office have already been receiving iPhones and mine just arrived last Thursday. Given that I’ve now been using it for a few days, I recorded these initial impressions: Initial impressions of the iPhone 3GAs I’ve documented on http://www.disruptivete...
Krugman wins Nobel!
Woohoo! Paul Krugman has been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Krugman blogs, “An interesting thing happened to me this morning . . . ” Reuters story here. I depend on Krugman’s twice-weekly New York Times column to explain what the economics news of the day means. I’ve been following him closely for years. He’s been a lone voice in the mainstream media — for several years now — explaining how the subpri...
Buckle Down but Keep Innovating
With the global economy in flux, there’s no way online start-ups can escape unscathed. Companies are going to be more focused on operating costs, generating revenue and making their financing last as long as possible. That said, it would be a shame if the tougher times means that innovation within the online landscape starts to decline. For all the hype about Web 2.0, the far more interesting element has been the flurry of cool, useful, interesting and/or valuable tools developed. If you w...
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Bill and Steve — and Jeff (Bezos)
Earlier this year, when Bill Gates retired from Microsoft, I wrote a post explaining why no one was going to replace Bill and Steve (Jobs). The only person I thought was within striking distance of being the likely replacement was Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon (AMZN). Amazon has proved to be a proxy for future trends of web and technology; cloud computing and Kindle being the most recent examples. Today, when I read this quote from him in the New York Times… “Our willingness to be m...
Monday reading: New PR firm, eduSkype, Emergency dialing, Sex Video, Dating, Multiparty Video
Text 100 became one of Skype’s PR firms. Text 100 is a much larger firm than 3 Monkeys Communications, dropped after just five months. Text 100 has presence in North America (new New York office opening last May), EMEA, and APAC (ten years in Japan). They already serve clients eBay, PayPal, Nokia, Cisco, and IBM. via PR Week UK. ♦ Education and music was the topic on the MusTech.Net podcast. Skype’s Ian Robin guest starred on last week’s show. Distance learning, language...
Dude, Where’s My Ad?
Last week, after ignoring the world’s financial problems for almost a year, Silicon Valley woke up to find itself caught in the death grip of the credit crunch. Declining stock markets only added to the overall gloom. And when one of its own — Sequoia Capital, among the smartest and most rational investors in the world — told its portfolio companies to cinch their belts tighter than ever, all hell broke loose. Those of us in the Valley are now reassessing our bullishness and tryin...
Music Makers and Technology Shakers
Join Women 2.0 for “Music Makers and Technology Shakers” on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at Slide in San Francisco, featuring artists, seasoned executives and music industry disrupters, from KCRW to Real Networks to Sellaband.com (all the way from the Netherlands). Hear influential technology and music leaders talk about the changes in the music industry, new business models, current trends and how the startup community can empower change for artists around the globe. This is an event for te...
MySpace Launches SelfServe Ads For All
MySpace, after offering its hyper-targeting platform to large advertisers, today launched MyAds, a self-service platform that would open its social network to smaller advertisers. It is a page out of Google’s playbook. The search giant had used smaller advertisers to build up a groundswell for its advertising service. MySpace is betting that, by giving advertisers the ability to target users with banner ads based on age, gender, location and specific interests, it can build a sizable busi...
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