Alec Saunders SquawkBox

RH Philllips Dunnigan Hills 2000 Syrah

I’ve written about this wine in the past. We cracked a bottle of this last night after Michael’s birthday party.  I am a huge fan. It’s a great value, and an elegant, rich, delicious wine.  The label claims “generous flavors of raspberry, black cherry and pepper spice”, and it doesn’t over promise.

Pulver, in his own words

Jeff Pulver says he got taken advantage of by some folks who authored an op-ed piece under his name, with his permission, and then changed the text after he had approved it.  If you don’t already have a publicist, Jeff, get yourself one.  You’re a large figure in the VoIP industry, and on your way to being a larger figure in the political arena due to your regulatory activities. A smart publicist will keep track of loose ends like this one, and work with the publications (like CNET) to make sure this doesn’t happen. 

IBD on VoIP

IBD has a long piece on the economic impacts: Internet Phone Calls Could Squeeze Prices (Investor’s Business Daily).

The price deflation we’ve seen on phone calls is about to get much much more acute.  I’ve been working in Telecom for a little over a year, and one of my earliest questions to my colleagues was “why do you call *69 a service?” or a product or….

The unbundled package of features you buy from the telecom companies has made them fat profits, but that’s all about to change.  It’s the same evolution that the software industry went through in the early 90’s.  Spell checkers, grammar checkers and so on all disappeared as independent products, subsumed into the office suite.  There’s absolutely no reason not to do this in telecom either — the incremental cost to provide these services is zero.