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Reading Links for January 4th

January 4, 2012

My del.icio.us links and notes. Why Best Buy is Going out of Business…Gradually | Totally Agree! – I've had the same experiences over the last few years with Best Buy. I once used to shop there (about 5 years ago) and almost never do now. As an ex-retailer who has lived through a similar experience [...]

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Reading Links for September 9th

September 9, 2011

My del.icio.us links and notes. Lurkers have value says FredWilson – indeed they do. Important to defining the value of Twitter – "Twitter has 400mm active users a month, 100mm of them are engaged enough to log in, but only 60mm tweet. For years people have made it out like this is a bad thing. [...]

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Reading Links for September 1st

September 1, 2011

My del.icio.us links and notes. New Media and the People-Powered Uprisings – "Collective Action Problems" – ""Collective action problems" arise when a problem can be solved only through cooperation by many, but when there are strong disincentives for any one individual to participate, especially if victory is not guaranteed. These problems can be seen as [...]

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Del.icio.us Links for January 2nd

January 2, 2010

These are my del.icio.us links for January 2nd from 15:12 to 15:23: .@andyabramson re Ribbit Fluff – The Ribbit Brand name will never ever approach GoogleVoice – Andy goes after the year end Ribbit summary on where's the customers and the money. I hope that BTVoice actually emerges with a clear message for their enterprise [...]

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The Emerging Telecology of Social Networks and the Status Update

November 6, 2009

This time last week I presented at eComm. The title of my talk “The Emerging Telecology of Social Networks and the Status Updates”. A long title for profferring the view that “messaging” and “status updates” are central for the future of telephony. Afterwards I was asked a few questions and I thought I’d add a [...]

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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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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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Communications is Fragmenting

October 8, 2008

The next time you use Phweet I’d like you to consider how it improves communications in a world that is rapidly fragmenting. We want Multiple Identities: Our directory listings are increasingly fragmented, outdated and dispersed. Where once a white pages or yellow pages listing was enough we now have profiles on social networks, corporate profiles, [...]

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Jaxtr Breaches My Privacy and Maybe Millions More.

February 26, 2008

Dear Jaxtr, Because I read Gigaom and follow VoIP I just learned that you Jaxtr breached my privacy. You added me to the new beta Cafe Jaxtr without my permission. Even exposing my real name and showing me on other peoples contact pages as I tried to click and understand what you were trying to [...]

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What’s Your Brand Strategy for OpenSocial

November 1, 2007

While the buzz is huge today around OpenSocial the buzz reflects what Facebook has achieved. The marketing buzz that exists around OpenSocial confirms that marketers need to be seriously involved in Social Networks. Few still recognize it. It’s going to take at least three years for most to even catchup. In involves all of us. [...]

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