Alec Saunders SquawkBox

A cheap way to measure awareness    [7:51:03 AM]

From Jeff Pulver this morning… a very cheap marketing tool for measuring buzz.

Monday Morning VoIP BUZZ. During the past few months, I’ve started tracking the buzz surrounding VoIP as measured by Google. This morning there were:2,360,000 webpage hits on VoIP and 2,290 news stories. This is significantly up from the last time I checked a month… [The Jeff Pulver Blog]

The Perils of Air Travel    [7:54:42 AM]

From this morning’s National Post: Ottawa issues patent for jet with escape pods.

“But what if something short-circuited, and all of a sudden your airplane is being cut apart by a laser midway over the Atlantic? This would ruin your trip.”