The eternal conference call

Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 12-10-2009

What goes around comes around, if always a little faster. Remember when we first started using email, back in the foggy depths of the twentieth century? The great thing about email, everyone said and everyone believed, was that it was an asynchronous communications medium. (Yes, that’s how we used to talk.) Email cured the perceived shortcomings of telephone calls, which dominated our work lives. The ring of your phone would butt into whatever you happened to be doing at that moment, and you had no choice but to answer the damn thing (it might be your boss or your client,…

The Fearless Factor by Jacqueline Wales – Book review

Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 12-10-2009

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Tweet and Call from Jajah

Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 12-10-2009

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Iconoculture: Forget 140-character text-based tweets. Twitter users can now send audio tweets to each other using a third-party service from Internet communication provider Jajah. The service, whose beta name is Jajah@call, gives Twitter users the chance to make two-way calls with other users by typing “@call @username.”

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