In reading this article on TechCrunch about Jaxtr (whew that’s a lot of links), I saw something that caught my interest. I’ve been very interested in a company that is similar to Jaxtr called GrandCentral. One of the complaints and major barriers to major adoption of GrandCentral is it’s inability to process text messages (SMS)….
I was reading this guy’s blog and found the following excerpt: “I exist at Blogger, del.icio.us, Flickr,Facebook,Twitter,Reader,and Dodgeball (update frequency/abandonment rate varies).” “Update frequency and abandonment rate varies”! That’s classic! How many times have you made an account to check out a website or web service and abandoned it? for me it’s probably hundreds. hopefully…
Recently the wife and I were in Seattle and while we’re very familiar with the area, we were looking for somewhere new to eat. Luckily I had my trusty macbook with me and I googled for some options. The first link for a breakfast place was this one. Yelp is exactly what you want when…
I’ve become hooked on a new product called Twitter? What is it, you may ask? It’s basically a way to communicate with your friends no matter where they are. You can add your IM or SMS so that you can receive messages wherever you want. You can even make it so that if you’re on…
Cisco conjured up $3.2 billion in an offer to buy WebEx. For those of you who don’t know what WebEx is, it’s an online meeting place that allows for desktop sharing. Typically it’s used by businesses to hold online meetings and share PowerPoint slides. Its amazing technology. On another note – Microsoft is making inroads…
Mary Joe Foley has a dead-on (in my opinion) view of Microsoft’s latest release of SharePoint, called Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. I’m part of a team at my work and we’re evaluating content management and collaboration services for our Internal communication. In my experience with SharePoint, it’s obvious that MS wants SharePoint to be…
David Pogue, of the NY Times gave Grandcentral some great press….it’s good to see to good things happening to a good company 🙂 Article Link Check out the video David did – hilarious! Technorati Tags: grandcentral, voip
Canon just released the TX1 – a beautiful new camera that takes great looking still images (at 7.1 megapixels) and wonderful video at HD rates (720p). Wow! And they’re doing all this for an MSRP of only $500. How yummy! here’s some more info. Technorati Tags: camera, canon
There are so many things that excite me in the tech world, but currently my spotlight is on: OpenID – I’m so anxious for some of the big boys to start adopting this single sign-on system. Digg just announced their support of it. Welcome to the club 🙂 GrandCentral – this disruptive technology essentially takes…
It probably appears that I’m a grand central fanboy lately, but hey it’s a great product and I’m excited about it! So I’m trying out something new – on the right hand side you’ll see a GrandCentral button. It makes it very easy to call me – just click the button, put in your number,…