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Kill Your TV

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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 0 comments Read more... →

Facebook Hates Email

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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 0 comments Read more... →

Embrace or be displaced

As all major web destinations evolve to take advantage of social networking features (Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect) this concern will be blurry at best. CSO’s and those tasked with corporate governance in areas related to risk may well have to bury their heads in the sand as the next wave of qualified candidates [...]

December 1, 2008 0 comments Read more... →

Someone knock me down

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Pat Phelan ask if the experts of social media, well… matter.  Do they matter for a given business?  Do they matter in general?
One of the named experts is Jeremiah Owyang and I only know of Jeremiah Owyang because of the world shaking and deeply altering historical signifiance of the Exxon Twitter Crisis of August [...]

November 23, 2008 0 comments Read more... →

Under the guise of simplicity

Everything after the Etch A Sketch has been an exercise in escalating support demands. Consider that simply shaking it like a Polaroid picture puts you right back to a pristine operating state.
Loss of productivity from email is symptomatic.
Rethinking how email is used would mean there might be a problem… whether or not email is creating [...]

January 20, 2007 0 comments Read more... →

Google has AOL envy

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AOL’s BYOB uses a tunnel/vpn approach. I wonder where Google could have ever gotten the idea… but the effect is clear:

Off VPN:

$ /usr/sbin/traceroute www.google.com

traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 64.233.161.104

traceroute to www.l.google.com (64.233.161.104), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets

1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.984 ms 1.131 ms 1.058 ms

2 [...]

September 23, 2005 0 comments Read more... →

Export restrictions

I’ve got a Mac. I have a metric ton of contacts (+10k). One might expect this makes for an elegant and natural fit since there is Address Book for the Mac.
Having lots of contacts should mean you are able to communicate with those contacts. Or, maybe that you want to feel like you are making [...]

June 11, 2005 0 comments Read more... →