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Mar31	Vonage Offers E911 Service to 1 Million and Counting VoIP Customers Jeff Carr March 31, 2006 Know More: E911, vonage 2.0, E911 This was mandated several years ago by the FCC, but the technology wasn't in place then. In fact, the inability of VoIP customers to have emergency responders connect their telephone number to a physical address was part of the traditional telcos campaign to get customers to stay with them instead of switching over to Vonage and other VoIP providers. On March 30, 2006, Vonage announced 1 million subscribers served with E911 service! Personally, I'm thrilled to hear the news. As someone who spent the worst year of his professional life tied to a customer service desk at Qwest, I'm all in favor of VoIP and P2P alternatives to landline services. Now, Vonage, when do you think you can successfully deliver that adapter you were supposed to send me a few months ago??? Posted at 1:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar29	Fools Investing in the RTC Space Jeff Carr March 29, 2006 Motley Fool contributing writer Munarriz recommends investing in real-time collaboration efforts such as social networking sites and other Web 2.0 applications that stress 2 significant things:1- The site encourages the user to rely on it for social status, or enhance... Continue Reading Posted at 9:41 AM \| Permalink
Mar28	Go and the Art of Business Intelligence Jeff Carr March 28, 2006 What does a game that some estimate to be 4,000 years old have to do with a contemporary tool of business intelligence? They both rely on the critical component of strategic forecasting, and of aligning strategy with action. Go... Continue Reading Posted at 5:52 PM \| Permalink
Mar27	Stowe Boyd's Free Webcast on Collaboration Tools Jeff Carr March 27, 2006 Stowe Boyd, a well-known blogger and the man who coined the term "advice capital", will be presenting a free webcast this week in which he discusses his picks in a variety of Web 2.0 products, including Ajaxcamp, Basecamp, Writely, Foldera,... Continue Reading Posted at 6:48 AM \| Permalink
Mar26	MySpace a Resource in Police Investigation Jeff Carr March 26, 2006 Associated Press reported this morning that 6 young men ages 18 - 20, who raped and robbed a young girl in Boulder, Colorado, were identified and captured by police detectives who utilized the extremely popular social networking site in their... Continue Reading Posted at 12:30 PM \| Permalink
Mar22	Vista's 2007 Release Date Completes the Web 2.0 Cycle Jeff Carr March 22, 2006 Microsoft's announcement yesterday about delaying the release of the consumer version of Windows Vista until January, 2007 wasn't unexpected, at least for me. Not because I had any inside information (I didn't), but because a 2006 release date didn't fit... Continue Reading Posted at 7:20 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar20	Social Networks and the New Internet Bubble Jeff Carr March 20, 2006 I landed my first job with a software company during the old Internet bubble in the late ninties when there was more work than writers available to do it. I also lost that job during the dot.com crash of 2001,... Continue Reading Posted at 11:01 AM \| Permalink
Mar19	Citrix GoToMeeting - Everything but the VoIP Jeff Carr March 19, 2006 Late last year, Matt McKenzie published a review of 5 web-conferencing tools in TechBuilder. I'll be referencing his article in this series of posts about Web Conferencing tools. Matt, by the way, is the well-respected editor of Linux Pipeline, which... Continue Reading Posted at 8:27 AM \| Permalink
Mar18	Is Microsoft Ignoring the Long Tail in Web Conferencing? Jeff Carr March 18, 2006 It appears so, based on their current pricing strategy for Live Meeting.Microsoft acquired the developer of Live Meeting (Placeware) in 2003 and has vastly expanded its capabilities since then. It is primarily an enterprise tool, which makes sense since Microsoft... Continue Reading Posted at 9:24 AM \| Permalink
Mar17	My Problem with LinkedIn Jeff Carr March 17, 2006 I recently posted about OpenBC, a European networking site. I liked it primarily because it offered a more global participation than other sites, and for it's discussion boards (which LinkedIn doesn't seem to offer - please correct me if I'm... Continue Reading Posted at 8:09 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar15	Zfone, VoIP and Our Climate of Fear Jeff Carr March 15, 2006 Slashdot's Cmdr Taco announced yesterday that the creator of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), Phil Zimmerman, has developed a secure means of talking over VoIP, called Zfone. It works with any VoIP network that uses the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) such... Continue Reading Posted at 10:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar12	ETech, Pattern Language and Go Jeff Carr March 12, 2006 According to Tim O'Reilly, Clay Shirky gave a great talk at ETech on the use of pattern language in devising moderation systems. In other words, Shirky theorizes about ways to help moderate interactions between users in social networking programs (like... Continue Reading Posted at 10:53 AM \| Permalink
Mar10	More about Writely, Google and Microsoft Jeff Carr March 10, 2006 Paul Kedrosky puzzles over the reasons for the Writely-Google buzz. Why are bloggers covering it so heavily, Paul? Not because they love to hate Microsoft, as you seem to think.We're talking about it because the A-listers are. And that gets... Continue Reading Posted at 11:17 AM \| Permalink
	Writely plus Google equals What? Jeff Carr March 10, 2006 Well, it's all over the blogosphere - Google acquires Writely. Naturally, the folks that work for Writely are all-a-flutter with the news, particularly over their upcoming free lunches at Googleplex. It's certainly another example of the new business model for... Continue Reading Posted at 10:48 AM \| Permalink
Mar 8	The BIG List of Real-Time Collaboration Tools Jeff Carr March 8, 2006 This is a pretty big list of Collaboration Services, organized by eConsultant. Many of them are relatively obscure, but who knows, you may find some gems in here.... Continue Reading Posted at 8:19 AM \| Permalink
Mar 7	Ray Ozzie and the Online Clipboard Jeff Carr March 7, 2006 Microsoft's' acquistion of Groove, and it's CEO Ray Ozzie, was a wonderful opportunity for Bill Gates' company. Ozzie is a long-time innovator, and he's successful enough to not be afraid to speak his mind.His latest idea, a clipboard for the... Continue Reading Posted at 1:40 PM \| Permalink
Mar 6	Real-time Book Signings and the Collaborative Long Pen Jeff Carr March 6, 2006 Collaboration software has always been about bringing people together over long distances to accomplish a task. Now a very non-techie author, Margaret Atwood (The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus), motivated by her growing dislike of constant airline travel... Continue Reading Posted at 10:41 AM \| Permalink
Mar 3	Building your Personal Network with OpenBC Jeff Carr March 3, 2006 Here's a European-owned entry in the personal networking category - OpenBC (Open Business Club). They've recently hit the 1 million member mark, and I've registered with them as a technology writer and instructional designer. I like the clean look of... Continue Reading Posted at 5:28 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 2	Does Foldera Demand Signal a Deeper Problem? Jeff Carr March 2, 2006 Scobel announced 400,000 downloads in 12 days for this Workgroup Management program. Honestly, I need a system to keep track of all of these beta products designed to help me stay organized.According to their website,Foldera is the new way to:... Continue Reading Posted at 10:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 1	Some Good Wiki Advice Jeff Carr March 1, 2006 I was exploring a new collaborative service called Near-Time this morning, and I came across a post entitled An Eight Step Recipe for a Successful Wiki. It really struck a chord with me, and I thought I'd separate it out... Continue Reading Posted at 7:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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Mar31	Vonage Offers E911 Service to 1 Million and Counting VoIP Customers Jeff Carr March 31, 2006 Know More: E911, vonage 2.0, E911 This was mandated several years ago by the FCC, but the technology wasn't in place then. In fact, the inability of VoIP customers to have emergency responders connect their telephone number to a physical address was part of the traditional telcos campaign to get customers to stay with them instead of switching over to Vonage and other VoIP providers. On March 30, 2006, Vonage announced 1 million subscribers served with E911 service! Personally, I'm thrilled to hear the news. As someone who spent the worst year of his professional life tied to a customer service desk at Qwest, I'm all in favor of VoIP and P2P alternatives to landline services. Now, Vonage, when do you think you can successfully deliver that adapter you were supposed to send me a few months ago??? Posted at 1:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar29	Fools Investing in the RTC Space Jeff Carr March 29, 2006 Motley Fool contributing writer Munarriz recommends investing in real-time collaboration efforts such as social networking sites and other Web 2.0 applications that stress 2 significant things:1- The site encourages the user to rely on it for social status, or enhance... Continue Reading Posted at 9:41 AM \| Permalink
Mar28	Go and the Art of Business Intelligence Jeff Carr March 28, 2006 What does a game that some estimate to be 4,000 years old have to do with a contemporary tool of business intelligence? They both rely on the critical component of strategic forecasting, and of aligning strategy with action. Go... Continue Reading Posted at 5:52 PM \| Permalink
Mar27	Stowe Boyd's Free Webcast on Collaboration Tools Jeff Carr March 27, 2006 Stowe Boyd, a well-known blogger and the man who coined the term "advice capital", will be presenting a free webcast this week in which he discusses his picks in a variety of Web 2.0 products, including Ajaxcamp, Basecamp, Writely, Foldera,... Continue Reading Posted at 6:48 AM \| Permalink
Mar26	MySpace a Resource in Police Investigation Jeff Carr March 26, 2006 Associated Press reported this morning that 6 young men ages 18 - 20, who raped and robbed a young girl in Boulder, Colorado, were identified and captured by police detectives who utilized the extremely popular social networking site in their... Continue Reading Posted at 12:30 PM \| Permalink
Mar22	Vista's 2007 Release Date Completes the Web 2.0 Cycle Jeff Carr March 22, 2006 Microsoft's announcement yesterday about delaying the release of the consumer version of Windows Vista until January, 2007 wasn't unexpected, at least for me. Not because I had any inside information (I didn't), but because a 2006 release date didn't fit... Continue Reading Posted at 7:20 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar20	Social Networks and the New Internet Bubble Jeff Carr March 20, 2006 I landed my first job with a software company during the old Internet bubble in the late ninties when there was more work than writers available to do it. I also lost that job during the dot.com crash of 2001,... Continue Reading Posted at 11:01 AM \| Permalink
Mar19	Citrix GoToMeeting - Everything but the VoIP Jeff Carr March 19, 2006 Late last year, Matt McKenzie published a review of 5 web-conferencing tools in TechBuilder. I'll be referencing his article in this series of posts about Web Conferencing tools. Matt, by the way, is the well-respected editor of Linux Pipeline, which... Continue Reading Posted at 8:27 AM \| Permalink
Mar18	Is Microsoft Ignoring the Long Tail in Web Conferencing? Jeff Carr March 18, 2006 It appears so, based on their current pricing strategy for Live Meeting.Microsoft acquired the developer of Live Meeting (Placeware) in 2003 and has vastly expanded its capabilities since then. It is primarily an enterprise tool, which makes sense since Microsoft... Continue Reading Posted at 9:24 AM \| Permalink
Mar17	My Problem with LinkedIn Jeff Carr March 17, 2006 I recently posted about OpenBC, a European networking site. I liked it primarily because it offered a more global participation than other sites, and for it's discussion boards (which LinkedIn doesn't seem to offer - please correct me if I'm... Continue Reading Posted at 8:09 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar15	Zfone, VoIP and Our Climate of Fear Jeff Carr March 15, 2006 Slashdot's Cmdr Taco announced yesterday that the creator of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), Phil Zimmerman, has developed a secure means of talking over VoIP, called Zfone. It works with any VoIP network that uses the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) such... Continue Reading Posted at 10:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar12	ETech, Pattern Language and Go Jeff Carr March 12, 2006 According to Tim O'Reilly, Clay Shirky gave a great talk at ETech on the use of pattern language in devising moderation systems. In other words, Shirky theorizes about ways to help moderate interactions between users in social networking programs (like... Continue Reading Posted at 10:53 AM \| Permalink
Mar10	More about Writely, Google and Microsoft Jeff Carr March 10, 2006 Paul Kedrosky puzzles over the reasons for the Writely-Google buzz. Why are bloggers covering it so heavily, Paul? Not because they love to hate Microsoft, as you seem to think.We're talking about it because the A-listers are. And that gets... Continue Reading Posted at 11:17 AM \| Permalink
	Writely plus Google equals What? Jeff Carr March 10, 2006 Well, it's all over the blogosphere - Google acquires Writely. Naturally, the folks that work for Writely are all-a-flutter with the news, particularly over their upcoming free lunches at Googleplex. It's certainly another example of the new business model for... Continue Reading Posted at 10:48 AM \| Permalink
Mar 8	The BIG List of Real-Time Collaboration Tools Jeff Carr March 8, 2006 This is a pretty big list of Collaboration Services, organized by eConsultant. Many of them are relatively obscure, but who knows, you may find some gems in here.... Continue Reading Posted at 8:19 AM \| Permalink
Mar 7	Ray Ozzie and the Online Clipboard Jeff Carr March 7, 2006 Microsoft's' acquistion of Groove, and it's CEO Ray Ozzie, was a wonderful opportunity for Bill Gates' company. Ozzie is a long-time innovator, and he's successful enough to not be afraid to speak his mind.His latest idea, a clipboard for the... Continue Reading Posted at 1:40 PM \| Permalink
Mar 6	Real-time Book Signings and the Collaborative Long Pen Jeff Carr March 6, 2006 Collaboration software has always been about bringing people together over long distances to accomplish a task. Now a very non-techie author, Margaret Atwood (The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus), motivated by her growing dislike of constant airline travel... Continue Reading Posted at 10:41 AM \| Permalink
Mar 3	Building your Personal Network with OpenBC Jeff Carr March 3, 2006 Here's a European-owned entry in the personal networking category - OpenBC (Open Business Club). They've recently hit the 1 million member mark, and I've registered with them as a technology writer and instructional designer. I like the clean look of... Continue Reading Posted at 5:28 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 2	Does Foldera Demand Signal a Deeper Problem? Jeff Carr March 2, 2006 Scobel announced 400,000 downloads in 12 days for this Workgroup Management program. Honestly, I need a system to keep track of all of these beta products designed to help me stay organized.According to their website,Foldera is the new way to:... Continue Reading Posted at 10:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Mar 1	Some Good Wiki Advice Jeff Carr March 1, 2006 I was exploring a new collaborative service called Near-Time this morning, and I came across a post entitled An Eight Step Recipe for a Successful Wiki. It really struck a chord with me, and I thought I'd separate it out... Continue Reading Posted at 7:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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