Why does enterprise messaging matter?
In 1960 when you showed up at a new office for your first day of work you would probably get a typewriter or a Secretary with a typewriter, notepads and pens, and perhaps a telephone.
In 1995 you might have received a computer, in 2000 you almost certainly would have. You would [...]
I received a vark.com invitation today - Vark being short for Aardvark which is the hot new startup in the search field. The concept is simple, yet it is something that the big boys of search have yet to tap into - that being real time search within your network of friends. Services such as [...]
In life we can not always exert control over our social network. You can have a private phone number, yes, but telemarketers can still get the number often times. You can allow calls to go to your answering machine or not answer but you will still have to hear the phone ring.
You can have spam [...]
I enjoy Facebook and GChat as much as the next person, especially Facebook chat thanks to the large number of Facebook friends I am able to keep track of. Facebook has enabled a large number of friends to keep track of each other in real time, which is nice. That said - the chat has [...]
Fresh off of my post from last week regarding Skype and how it might emerge as the winner in the “web 2.0″ universe came the fairly big news that eBay is spinning off the company into an independent company. The company hopes to launch an initial public offering in early 2010 depending on market conditions.
eBay [...]
The new worms ripping through Twitter have yet to break into the mainstream tech media but from well documented sources it appears evident that hackers have now slipped into the Twitter-verse - as they have every other part of the internet at this point. This will not impact Twitter’s growing popularity, or shouldn’t at any [...]
FriendFeed has generated a good bit of buzz since the companies inception because the founders came from Google. Paul Bucheit, the driver behind the company, was the creator(well, basically) of GMail and has continued to prove that he is a visionary with the latest FriendFeed update. Basically FriendFeed took some of the best parts of [...]
Skype has enormous potential and really should be seen as one of the clear winners of web 2.0. People tend to allow Skype’s success to be obscured by just how much eBay paid for it many years ago but currently it has hundreds of millions in revenue - it also seems to be profitable. The [...]