My Own Pirate Radio
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Archive for December, 2005
TechCrunch: Bubbleshare is wonderful
Congratulations to Albert Lai and the team at Bubbleshare. TechCrunch says "BubbleShare is just wonderful, and ridiculously easy to use." Bubbleshare is a photo sharing site with an emphasis on ease-of-use. They have a slick UI that lets you drag and drop photos into a slide shot, add captions and audio, and then invite friends to check out your photos – ALL without requiring a sign-up process.
Here’s a little album I made with some scuba diving photos I took last spring.
Meeting Michael Geist
I had the opportunity to spend an hour with Michael Geist this afternoon, and chat with him about privacy issues. Michael is a law professor at the University of Ottawa, where he holds the Canadian Research Chair in Internet Law and E-Commerce. We talked as part of our ongoing efforts at Iotum to understand and proactively address privacy issues around our software. We had a fascinating discussion, for a little over an hour, on topics ranging from public policy to telephone solicitation. Howard and I had to leave, but not before agreeing to talk some more with Michael.
Snarf This!
Snarfer is a new feed reader just released, by Snarfware. Supports both Atom, and RSS, and sports a plugin architecture to allow new feed formats to be easily incorporated. It’s free, because (like Google) it includes contextually relevant adware links above each post. The adware is unobtrusive, and unlikely to ever bother you.
It has a nice clean UI. Very spartan features, however. I would like, at minimum, to be able to post from the RSS feed to my blog. But if you don’t have a blog, it may be just the ticket for you.
Take it for a spin.
Rational Forecasting for VoIP?
While cleaning out my inbox this morning, I came across this Google alert: Instat Forecasts Hosted VoIP Services Market of 1.27 Billion by 2009. A year ago, most forecasters were looking for about 1.6 billion by 2008. Will the market for hosted VoIP services take off? Or is this the beginning of a streak of missed forecasts?
