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Gripe – word of mouth is powerful – Making Complaints Count

January 17, 2011
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For years I’ve been interested in crowdsourcing complaints and how P2P systems can aggregate and shift power. Today @mrblog (David Beckemeyer) introduced me to Gripe a solution that’s using “word-of-mouth power to share public complaints or cheers that get heard!” The team at Gripe has done a great job! If you look at their resumes [...]

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FaceTime – Call it SIP 2.0?

August 2, 2010
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This is a second in a series of FaceTime posts I wrote privately a month ago. I referenced them here. and asked yesterday “FaceTime – Has Apple Suckered the Operators Again?”. I also posted on the “Scramble” this creates. FaceTime – What It Really Means? Apple launched FaceTime video calls with the iPhone4. Most of [...]

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FaceTime – Has Apple Suckered the Operators Again?

August 1, 2010

This is one of three posts I wrote on FaceTime just after purchasing my iPhone4 and mentioned  here. There is a hidden trojan horse story behind FaceTime – Apple’s new video calling solution. This post highlights why it is more than just video and suggests reasons other handset manufacturers should take a closer look. Then [...]

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Jajah @call @stuarthenshall service misses the Phweet spot IMHO

September 16, 2009

Daniel Terdiman of Cnet  reports that Jajah will enable Twitter to talk. There’s a few hints in their announcement. There’s also material differences in what the experience is likely to deliver vs Phweet which was launched 15 months ago and remains in PublicAlpha as we never believed in giving free calls away to grow the [...]

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What could Apple see in Twitter? Are Tweets – MobileMe 3.0 Notifications? Is Apple really David?

May 7, 2009

I keep reading Apple + Twitter stories and no-one seems to have a clue why it might be a good idea… or a very bad idea… or simply unnecessary. What almost no one does… is tell me a story of why it might be a good idea. This is a crude little thought experiment. An [...]

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No Mr Bell! I want context and your profile! Who’s calling???

March 10, 2009

This is a comment I left on JP Rangaswami’s blog a few minutes ago. He writes a lovely post about Alexander Graham Bell. I read it and thought we need a better way to augment the setting up of voice calls. I don’t see enough focus there. So this is the comment I left. I [...]

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eComm Presentation – No Numbers and My CallerID #ecomm

March 3, 2009

I wrote a post a long time ago suggesting that presenters be prepared to put up their presentations quickly after a presentation.  When I was putting this together I recorded it using Keynote. It’s made me realize the ease and opportunity to do things a little different in future. I’ve done some other demo type [...]

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TringMe’s Beta SMS Solution

January 21, 2009

I’m heading to Bangalore next week and am looking forward to meeting Yusuf Motiwala the founder of TringMe and currently India’s most innovative VoIP company. We incorporated the TringMe flash phone in the Phweet Alpha.  I’ve also made it one of my tasks to look  at “cheap calls” between India and the US. As TringMe [...]

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Jaxtr FreeConnect – Uses Text Signaling Too

January 19, 2009

I’ve been trialing a new program “FreeConnect” launched by Jaxtr in December. I think it is a big hit with the Indian market and means you can call your friends almost anywhere just by dialing a local number. The other party gets an SMS and then both parties are connected for FREE (less the local [...]

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Skype Will Never Beat Facebook

January 9, 2009

When a friend starts a post with a “you will think I’m nuts …” I know he’s a real buddy of mine. Luca asks today How Can Skype Become The Next Facebook? I’d have to say no way! My reasons are supported by some of the reasons he provides in his post and some of [...]

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2009 – We are Talking Emerging Communications Again!

January 1, 2009

Periodically a new buzz arises around VoIP’s future. I’ve just been reading posts by Jeff Pulver, Jon Arnold, Ken Camp, Andy Abramson and Lee Dryburgh. I naturally have my own perspective, both as a user and strategically. My position is simple. It’s about conversations. And if you want to change telecom you must shift power [...]

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Phweet Review – Your Suggestions Wish

December 31, 2008

Some things are Phweet! Ah sweet! At least that’s the play on words I was looking for. I thought a world full of PhweetTalk might make Twitter a more interesting place. So this is my review. 10 things I have learned: We haven’t yet changed the world. People still prefer to make their calls off [...]

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My Year End Review and Thanks

December 30, 2008

As 2008 closes I find myself pondering what’s good and bad about 2008. I find it hard to do this with complete clarity.   Overall I’ve had a really excellent year. 2008 started with a couple of exciting projects and this post is ultimately about recognizing those that helped me most in 2008. 2008 took [...]

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Twitter and the Business Model 2009

December 30, 2008

I wrote this post a month ago. I’ve decided to post it. Especially after seeing Ev’s video comments just before Xmas. On the one hand I’d like to thank Twitter for the opportunity it presented to me in 2008. Twitter the organization rather than the community continues to leave me out in the cold. I’m [...]

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QIK – Mobile Video Streaming

October 27, 2008

I’ve been testing QIK over the weekend. QIK let’s you stream live video from your mobile phone. In my case I’m testing a version that is almost ready for public release on a 3G iPhone. This is an embed of my live streams although I’m not sure how public longer term I’m going to be. [...]

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