Entries from November 2005

November 17, 2005

The beat goes on…

It was cool to see Matt at Silicon Beat cover us -I don’t know him, but he sure hustled. His write up yielded us more visitors than the Venture Wire story. MoCo News also caught it.
As I’ve indicated, we’re some parts web 2.0 and some parts mobile service, so it [...]

November 10, 2005

U2 “Dreaming Outloud”

OK-so this is relevant to the thread… I saw U2 last night in Oakland. Bono had everyone hold up their mobile phones all lit up. The place looked like a giant Christmas tree. It was a site to see. We are all well aware of the huge adoption of mobile phones-everyone has one. But to [...]

November 10, 2005

3rd Great Protocol

I met a guy named Vint Cerf moons ago when I was schlepping routers to ISPs. He had an ISP named Cerfnet in San Diego. I had the pleasure of meeting him once, but mostly dealt with his guys Klaus and Larry. Not having known Vint from Adam (ok, I was very new to all [...]

November 6, 2005

Convenience

Phone tag is inconvenient and usually not productive. But then again we can’t connect and talk everytime we call each other. What if I knew you were calling me for certain information, and further what if I could arrange for a means for you to obtain that information you’re looking for when calling me?
Like [...]

November 1, 2005

Personality

Once upon a time there was this thing called an answering machine. Many of us had a little fun when recording our voice greeting on these mini cassette based devices. Back in the day I would play my guitar on the answering machine, or have a really cool song playing in the background (on my [...]