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9 months ago

in 2008/09/29/jaxtr-eyes-profitability-with-new-premium-memberships-for-web-based-voip-calls/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Thanks for your thoughts Donnacha. If you can shoot me an email at connect@jaxtr.com, I'd be happy to talk with you more about your experiences and see if there's anything that we can troubleshoot together.

9 months ago

in Set Your Blog On Fire on Chris Brogan
I think a big part of keeping a blog going is just setting aside the time for brainstorming. Getting the ideas going on a regular basis helps continue them. Plus, just reading other blogs helps me spark my own creativity.

9 months ago

in T-Mobile UK readying Android on Mobile Industry Review
Nice. I'd think T-Mobile would be really getting their ducks in a row for this launch so they can finally get in on the smartphone conversation that has been going on for awhile.
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Ewan Aye

9 months ago

in Look at how screwed up the telecoms industry is on Mobile Industry Review
How did PremTel get your info? Are they a subsidiary of the other company? Did someone get hacked?

9 months ago

in 2008/09/19/cisco-jabber/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
That's an interesting move as it appears that Cisco really is moving to broaden its communications solutions for enterprises. I wonder if they've had much client demand for IM services. IM has been treated badly by many companies as they've considered it a time-waster, but I wonder if some of the value of it as an internal communication tool is finally starting to be recognized.
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Paul Glazowski I'm sure they have had that demand. Plus, they must be playing it smart with a company purchase that gives them as much access to the IM platform itself as that of its clientele.

9 months ago

in Android Phone to cost $199 on T-Mobile? on Mobile Industry Review
I'm surprised that they're going for such a hefty pricetag. I thought they might go a little lower to really sweeten the deal. I wonder what their break even point is after all the R&D.
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Ewan It's certainly not aimed at normobs, is it? Not at that rate. But it's just the first. And as Mr Operator commented, it'll likely not-be-that-good. Here's hoping it's easily upgradable though...

9 months ago

in Stephen Fry likes the S2 Skypephone too on Mobile Industry Review
Nice. I wonder if Skype will ever get big into making phones. Then they don't have to worry about making people download their tool. The fewer barriers to users using a tool the better. For instance, at jaxtr, you don't need to download anything to make calls. But nonetheless, it sounds like a cool phone.
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Mike42 I doubt it. For all its being a verb now, Skype actually has a tiny cashflow from the tiny % of users who actually pay them cash to talk. If they made a phone themselves, they would need to MVNO with a partner to run them on. They already sell WiFi handsets, but they don't make them - others do - Linksys Netgear, Belkin etc. Deciding to make and sell a phone is a seriously expensive, long-term move that requires significant cashflow to back it up. I don't think Skype have that, hence all the devices have been done by others, with Skype licencing their app / brand. eBay could back such a move, but it would be a big fight with existing MNO's.

Interesting that on the 'Skypephone S2' the Skype branding is nowhere to be seen, unlike the S1, where it was in-yer-face. Is this less a Skypephone, more a phone that has Skype, among Facebook, MSN etc?

9 months ago

in Google ‘lacking mass market strategy’ for Android on Mobile Industry Review
Somehow, I'm not too worried about Google not having an underlying strategy, but then again, we'll see how things pan out with Android.

9 months ago

in Yammer: This thing is a prize winner? on Mathew's comments
I'd be interested to see how many businesses do get interested in this tool. I think Yammer is a response to an unsaid question in the social media community of how do you make money off/create a sustainable business out of Twitter? I could see how Yammer could make money, even though it really isn't offering anything revolutionary; it's just repackaged the Twitter concept for business.

10 months ago

in 2008/09/04/social-media-for-real-world-social-change/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Interesting thoughts, Leslie. I think we're really on the tip of the iceberg for social movements through social media sites. I think we're just getting past that point of "hey, that's cool" and starting to get to the "how can I really use this" phase. As people find innovative uses for voice, video, and content tools online, it'll be fascinating to watch how they get implemented and how the world as a whole gets influenced by them.

10 months ago

in Chrome may be great, but will it matter? on Mathew's comments
Interesting thoughts. What Google is doing seems to be along the lines of Apple methodology--just the concept of having multiple products all working seamlessly together. So they keep gathering more and more pieces to draw in different segments of people. Short term, I don't think Chrome really dents the market, but longterm, it may be a different scenario as Google continues to prove the value and functionality of its products to different groups of people over time.
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mathewi That's a good analogy, Jim. It does seem as though Google wants to
control many different aspects of how we experience the Web --
including things like Android -- in much the same way Apple wants
hardware and software to work together to offer a single user
experience. At least Google is making an attempt to keep things open
source though.

10 months ago

in 2006/12/14/jaxtr-free-myspace-phone-calls/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Hi Fareed,

I saw your note. I just wanted to suggest you check out jaxtr.com to find the latest info. This article was posted in 2006, and quite a few things have changed for us.

Feel free to message me with questions after checking out the site.

Jim @ jaxtr

10 months ago

in An overview of the Estonian SMS market on Mobile Industry Review
That's very interesting. I love the idea of paying for parking through SMS (and of course turning on the ski course lights is awesome). How does that work exactly? Does someone just text a specific number with a message or is it more intricate than that?

10 months ago

in The Old Advertising Merry Go Round on Chris Brogan
Hi Chris. Thanks for the honesty and transparency on this subject. Your point about how people generally aren't shopping when they're reading blogs rings true for me, but it once again brings up the question of how to monetize blog traffic. Or perhaps, it's simply a question of subject matter and not medium (ie blog). Thoughts?

10 months ago

in 2008/08/23/mobile-voip-poll/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Since I work at a mobile voip company (Jaxtr--www.jaxtr.com), you can imagine that I'm an optimist on this subject. I think that the cat is out of the bag as to the fact that voip can significantly lower international calling costs for consumers. Ultimately, that's one of the biggest concerns for consumers (along with quality), and so long as quality is at least on par with big telecos, people will continue to spill over into the mobile voip space. How fast? I think a lot of that will have to do with mobile phone penetration into regions around the world, which from a lot of the numbers I have seen has been accelerating.

10 months ago

in Where Google and Facebook are fighting the next monetization battle on Scobleizer
I like how you phrased the social media thing for business: "Adding social networking features to your corporate sites helps your users through the research phase of the buying process." Companies get so caught up in the near-term transaction today mentality that they can miss the longterm concerns of building up interest and facilitating research for consumers that can drive future transactions. Hopefully as businesses continue to investigate online social networking, they'll do it in a transparent and authentic way.

10 months ago

in Magnolia Opens Up on Chris Brogan
Honestly, I think business development deals to get new stuff in front of the eyes of people using older, more familiar sites is a really untapped opportunity. That way all the people still using AOL, for instance, can be exposed to the new tools (there are quite a few AOL users--please refrain from the obligatory AOL joke. No I'm not one of them =). Otherwise, it goes back to the usual word of mouth from people to people and the key influencers who tell their friends.

11 months ago

in The Raw Power of StumbleUpon on Chris Brogan
I'm a big fan of stumbleupon, but as some people have pointed out, it's kind of the flash flood of traffic. You'll get hundreds or thousands of visits with about an avg time of 30 seconds on site. Other people in social media posts have commented that the one thing about the digg crowd is that people generally tend to read the content (ie pageview times above 2 minutes). However, it is nice that you'll get flashes of stumbleupon traffic over time once you get lots of content stumbled, as people will discover things later on down the road.

11 months ago

in Twelve Ways to Sell Social Media to Your Boss on Chris Brogan
I really like your point about how some companies are using tools like identi.ca to enhance productivity. I think companies have almost as much to gain in their interactions with customers on the Web as they do in being able to communicate more effectively internally through a number of these micro-blogging, wiki, and instant messenging tools.

11 months ago

in Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you on Scobleizer
This is a very cool and thoughtful post. I definitely understand the feeling of information overload. So much is going on, it's kind of hard to wrap your brain around it some times. That said, I think as a tech blogger that you get a chance to be a little bit of a visionary. It's really easy to get caught up in rating the latest apple apps and trying to grab traffic from digg, et al by catering to a popular topic. It's also really fun, but taking a step back to look at the big picture and offer thoughts and musings about where it all may be headed, I think that's the fun part. And I think that sparks other people in the tech community and is a really valuable service.
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