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Why I’ve checked out of the Twitter Developer System

August 11, 2010
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I wrote this post on June 30. I’d been reflecting on whether or not I should post it and wasn’t prepared to while I still held some hope that my efforts may pay some dividends.  Since then I’ve concluded that the opportunities for developing around Twitter are for more established and wealthy players only. I [...]

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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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Google Voice Replaced My Landline

July 13, 2009

Yes I moved and I used it as the opportunity to get rid of my landline. No more PSTN in this household I said. My daughter had stopped using the landline well before her iPhone turned up over a year ago. Frankly it represented “unwanted calls” from carpet cleaners and the occasional call from family [...]

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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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@al3x – Why Twitter Developers Should Get a “SuperTweet”

February 6, 2009

This post is to put the case for a SuperTweet. I’m positing it in response to an exchange I had last night with @al3x who heads up the Twitter API. The example below is a SuperTweet mock-up in the simplest of terms. I also made a related case “Twitter and the Business Model 2009” for [...]

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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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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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Voice 2.0 Manifesto Reflections and Progress

October 13, 2008

Back on October 21, 2005 Alec Saunders pulled a post together (Voice 2.0: A Manifesto for the Future), that built on many of the VoIP innovations we were seeing at the time. More recently there have been presentations “VoIP is Dead” by Skype’s CEO and questions that lead one to ask whether the Voice2.0 manifesto [...]

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Phone Phweet Icon

October 9, 2008

Yesterday I decided to use TwitterKeys to see if I could make it more obvious that phweet = a telephone option.  Could I insert a “telephone before the PhweetURL? Turns out I did and didn’t. At least I don’t seem to see it everywhere a Twitter status update appears. When it’s working it looks like [...]

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Links / Routing / Control

October 9, 2008

Yesterday I wrote a post “Communications is Fragmenting” with the idea of inserting some controversy for discussion. I received a great answer from long time friend and mentor Ed Prentice of Televoce. Ed’s voice is one of reason and reflection. Three elements that are discussed are important to me. Grand Central and One Number/Identity – [...]

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