Monthly Archives: August 2008

Not a Good Sign?

August 15, 2008 – 10:04 am

TelecomTV reports that Twitter is pulling out of the UK market because they were “unable to form a proper cost sustainable relationship with a UK mobile operator.”
A little rule I have of new businesses is that, at the core, they have a kernel of a very profitable product or service. It does not have [...]

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Mark Spencer, Jay Phillips and the Clash in World View

August 14, 2008 – 12:31 pm

As I race across Tennessee from my sister’s house to my brother’s house on a family vacation, Jay penned a post that skewered Asterisk, and Mark Spencer responded. Jay shared his work with me last week, and I told him I would blog my opinion on it… I’m glad that I waited and now [...]

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Open Diesel

August 5, 2008 – 5:46 pm

Tomorrow, at the ClueCon show in Chicago, I’ll be annoucing Open Diesel, an open source voice application written with Adhearsion.   OpenDiesel provides a complete work group management solution for small to medium enterprise, using adhearsion to integrate the phone with real business management issues. What does it do?

Provides a complete IVR written in Ruby, [...]

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MagicJack’s Advertising and Product Claims are Deceptive

August 5, 2008 – 1:01 pm

Having just suffered through a paid television ad for magicJack, reading Jon Arnold’s recent post and Dan Barislow’s response to same, I have come to two conclusions. First, magicJack’s advertising is willfully misleading to customers, making deceptive claims about the uniqueness of its offering and the pedigree of its founders in an attempt to deceive [...]

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