For those of you who didn’t see the coverage a while back, a company called Ooma announced a product that would do away with your long distance costs “for life”. The product was not very warmly received by the blogosphere. The basic idea behind ooma is that you connect it 1) to your broadband internet…
I was just reading this article on LinuxInsider regarding the new young workers entering the workforce and how IT groups inside companies are handling their hunger for “Web 2.0” technologies. While I agree with the general premise of the article, they highlight Apple and specifically the iPhone. Here’s as excerpt: “Not only will the next…
A while back I got an email from a representative from Callwave, inviting me to use their new service. The basic idea behind their voicemail service, called vtxt, involves using voice recognition on your voicemail in order to send you a text message with a summary of the audio message. Here’s how it’s supposed to…
37signals, a fantastic web based software company, took a huge leap forward today in allowing OpenID as a sign-on option for two of their products, Basecamp and Highrise. For those of you who don’t know what OpenID is check out my previous coverage and this page on OpenID. The basic idea is that it is…
This is very cool. A great wiki site – wetpaint just added support to sign in using OpenID. I’m very excited about more and more sites adding support for this exciting technology. Single sign-on for the web is one of my major beefs with browsing the web. It’s not a major site like digg or…
There’s a little known video-conferencing start-up in Sweden called Marratech. They make a great little piece of software that is similar to Live Meeting from Microsoft or WebEx. They weren’t very widely known, that is, until Google bought them yesterday. This is a pretty big deal because of what it represents from Google. They have…
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…