No, I don’t think so, but boy do I want to.
I caught a link from mashup meister John Musser from Light Reading called Telco Web 2.0 Mashups. In it, Caroline Chappell speaks about the impact Web 2.0 technologies are having on IMS deployments in her new report. I think Caroline what has [...]
There’s no denying an exodus is underway. So far, I’ve seen Pat, Moshe, Alec and a host of other go over to Facebook from LinkeIn, all in the space of a week. Is it just me, or do you find this remarkable? I mean, not only for the abruptness of it, or [...]
Gaboogie is a pretty cool idea. How often, in your professional life, do you find yourself trying to setup a conference call? Gaboogie aims to make that easier for you, in classic 37 Signals fashion. Gaboogie’s service makes it easy to setup a conference call between a small number of participants, and then [...]
“OK, so let me understand this… you guys do IVRs, right? I don’t really understand what’s new here. We’ve had IVRs forever.”
To live in the real world means to live with constraints. I am unable to jump over a tree. I will live less than 100 years. I am unable to add [...]
As regular readers may have figured out by now, I’m not a big fan of most carrier applications, as I am unconvinced of their long term value due to commoditization, and customer eduction and habituation issues. For me, it’s got to be really (really) good before I’ll fall in love with it. [...]
Wednesday is NOT Prince Sphagetti Day… it’s API day. APIs connect service providers to applications in Web services architectures. Application designers use the functionality provided by the API to build their mashups or to build their business process applications. Service providers make money with their APIs in a number of ways, including [...]
I had the pleasure of working for a man named Chuck Holland in the mid 90’s. Chuck is a wonderful, bright and generous man, now semi-retired after a wonderful career as a high tech entrepreneur, even including a part in Tracy Kidder’s Pulitzer Winning Novel “The Soul of a New Machine.” Chuck told [...]
I admit to having a rocky history with data.
It began back in 1981, when I was a freshman in high school. At the time, I had been programming in basic for a year or two, and I was learning C at my father’s office at Raytheon. There were a few kids I grew [...]
Had a wonderful time last night before the Gigantes game doing a podcast with Narendra from 30 boxes. (I’ll post it when I get back home next week) I met with Nerendra a couple of weeks ago at the Web 2.0 show in San Francisco, and I had this lingering thought about Web 2.0 [...]