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iPad Review

The Friday Fudge Five have weighed in on the collective wisdom of crowds to bring you a comprehensive and hard hitting look at perhaps the most amazing and innovative product of the 21st century… the latest creation from Apple — the iPad.

January 28, 2010 friday fudge

Tagged as: friday fudge, humor

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Bandwidth caps are broken

Apparently, Comcast has moved ahead with their infamous Comcast broadband cap and provided a Comcast broadband cap tool so that Comcast subscribers can see what they are using.
To be clear, my comments/opinions will reference Comcast but this is not meant to single out Comcast. I’ll just use Comcast since it is more succinct to [...]

December 3, 2009 random

Tagged as: bile, internet, iptv, telecom

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Kill Your TV

A pre-production evaluation of the latest foray into the digital living room from Cisco may have flaws but it represents a response to perceived needs of consumers that demand more simplicity. Expect to see the an array of alternatives that deliver much simpler use case scenarios for a world that is composed of consumers that [...]

December 2, 2009 random

Tagged as: bugs, geek, iptv, software, telecom

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Movember

On November 1, 2009 I will… transform.

I have decided to join a global movement that is bringing much needed attention to cancers that affect men. I’m doing this by growing a Moustache this Movember, the month formerly known as November. My commitment is to grow a moustache all November and I am hoping that [...]

November 22, 2009 random

Tagged as: donations, movember

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Facebook Hates Email

Update: January 12, 2010 Hell freezes over
Background: TechCrunch is having their RealTime CrunchUp event and solicited comments from the founder of Gmail, FriendFeed — Paul Buchheit — now at Facebook. Comments don’t appear to be working so… as I was trying to say:
Facebook has demonstrated very clearly (so far) that their approach to “email” is [...]

November 20, 2009 random

Tagged as: bile, email, social, software

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Audience

I’ve embedded a presentation with my raw notes from Audience Conference (see below).  Enjoy!  Also, please scroll down for official resources and additional commentary from others that attended the event.
Audience Conference 2009
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As you might expect, there are other resources elsewhere to temper and consider.  I’d recommend starting with official sources [...]

November 8, 2009 random

Tagged as: audience, conference, deep thoughts, internet, life, perception, squelch

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Got my card? We should stay in touch.

This post is a landing page for when I attend a conference. In this case, the conference is Audience Conference. While I’m not certain who I will meet or what companies will be there — I have high expectations. 100% of the companies I work with have some kind of audience. [...]

November 5, 2009 random

Tagged as: audience, card, conference, movember

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straight pool

Let’s not mince words: Cisco sells routers. Cisco sells a great many IP things but you’ve probably heard: Cisco sells routers. While Cisco has a massive portfolio of solutions and an M&A trail that would make any MBA blush, the Starent deal is straight pool.

Mobile core in the side pocket.
Much of the analysis so far [...]

October 19, 2009 random

Tagged as: acquisitions, cisco, mergers, mobile

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Danger Will Robinson!

Microsoft’s Three Screens Get Cloudy
What happens when Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer outlines a vision of “three screens and a cloud“?
People get interested.
However, interest is quickly tempered in the wake of T-Mobile Sidekick data loss from the cloud — a Microsoft cloud.  The implication is a reminder of the importance of getting things right in a [...]

October 11, 2009 random

Tagged as: cloud, outage, perception

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