Posted in Facebook, Internet, Marketing, Telephony & VoIP, e-commerce on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
While talking about the Social Media Press release yesterday I mused about the need for real-time communications to be included in the system.
Actually the call is for a much broader inclusion of person to person or person to group communication in Internet services - direct discussion between people using a site and between users and [...]
Posted in Advertising, Social Software, Telephony & VoIP, VoIP, e-commerce on September 10, 2007 | Comments Off
Years ago I was a product line manager at Computer Telephony hardware manufacturer. Back then the big applications were voice mail, automatic call distribution, and numerous variants of calling card, personal assistant and unified messaging applications – and of course conferencing.
Back in July Jeff Pulver lamented that not much has chanced – saying VoIP vendors [...]
Posted in Advertising, Attention Economy, Marketing, Social Software, e-commerce on July 12, 2007 | Comments Off
Om Malik is putting people onto Downfly – a social link exchange service with a twist. Not only does it make it very easy to send links to your friends from any page or application. To get an idea of how easy, and social this is check out this little promo:
According to Om it can [...]
Posted in Telephony & VoIP, e-commerce on February 22, 2007 | Comments Off
The other day I commented on a post Mitch Brisebois made about Etsy the fantastic crafters e-store. I thought I’d elaborate on those ideas here.
First what sets Etsy apart is it appears to understand that shopping isn’t just about getting what you want – it’s about the experience you have as you identify what you want. [...]
