I used to have a shed in the back of my house. It wasn't a great shed by any means. Not even that good. But it was there and kept my firewood dry. It's been a bit of a windy day today in Connecticut, and unfortunately the shed decided it would RATHER live its life as an airplane. Or a sail. Or a bird. Not a nice, little bird either. A 20 foot, corrugated steel monster bird. Also that it wanted to land on my boat. Also that it wanted to crush my neighbor's fence.
Walking through the power of CloudProfile
Techcrunch reports that O2 has won the war to purchase VoIP calling platform Jajah. A cool $200M. At CloudProfile we use Jajah for the click-to-call functionality you see on each profile out of the box. All part of the many ways consumers expect to be able to connect with businesses on the open, social, interactive web.
A year ago British Telecom purchase Ribbit for something like $110M, showing that large telcos have no intention of sitting on the side and letting new technologies pass them by. With eBay spinning out Skype, you wonder if a big US player might look to snatch up a majority holding.
Here is a post from @ahawkinson on why carriers must innovate beyond voice.
Aggressively using the threat of Santa Claus in my December parenting. I'm not sure Dr. Spock would approve, but what can I do. St. Nick seems to hold more sway over them than I do.
