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Unified Messaging for the Masses

October 27th, 2006 · No Comments

I just stumbled upon an interesting consumer voice mail business called GotVoice. They offer a free service to have your home of cell phone voice mail sent to your email in the form of an mp3 file.
I had this years ago at Echopass called unified messaging. We had voice mail and fax all sent to [...]

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Tags: Business · Technology

400MHz Linux PC for your Back Pocket

October 25th, 2006 · No Comments

Check out this 1″x5″ PC from Gumstix. It comes with 64MB of RAM, 16MB Flash, Compact Flash, and an Ethernet port. Add a wareable display from Microvision and a halfkeyboard from Matias and you can take your office with you.

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Tags: Technology

Next Generation Touch Screen Interface

October 5th, 2006 · No Comments

Check out this video of Jeff Han from NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences as he demos his new touch screen interface that allows multi-touch input. Sign me up to the beta!

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Tags: General · Technology

May CTO Breakfast

May 19th, 2006 · No Comments

We had a good discussion today at the Phil Windley’s CTO Breakfast. A couple of items really stood out.
Bruce Fryer with a new startup Digisense brought up the Amazon S3 web service is being used by JungleDisk.com to provide super low cost online backup.
An interesting part of the discussion turned toward how to improve the [...]

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Tags: Business · General · Technology

ASCII Maps and Poly9

May 17th, 2006 · No Comments

Have you ever wondered what happened to the ASCII art phenomenon on the 70s and 80s? Look no further than ASCII Maps from Canadian based Poly9 Group Inc. ASCII Maps is a mashup between Google maps and ASCII art where the map data is dynamically translated into a text based representation. I’m not sure it’s really functional, [...]

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Tags: Technology · Web 2.0