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Re: How to find Ooma on Google

Irony Abounds — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:40:20 -0000

Yeah. It's a pretty common practice. There's irony that if those ads appear on a site of the actual product trademark owner, and someone clicks on the ooma ad, ooma pays the real product maker for that click.

It is generally considered a "black hat" (or sinister) practice and will burn bridges, however. It basically means Ooma has no intention of partnering with any of these companies because the terms of such a deal would generally forbid buying that company's tradmarked keyoords (and often many other related keywords).

Re: Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes

Irony Abounds — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:00:38 -0000

I have actually setup WP with prologue and I don't know if it was less than an hour (with customization) but it was pretty easy and it is pretty neat.

Keep in mind, this is not really apples to apples, since it doesn't include any of the SMS interfacing that real Twitter has.

Re: No More Landlines - Discussion

Irony Abounds — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:56:18 -0000

I stand by what I said in May 2007 the first time you made this prediction http://mrblog.org/2007/05/08/ill-take-that-bet/

DSL over copper is still the most common (by far) broadband delivery pipe.

Given that there are no plans to replace the plant on the table now, there's no way the project could be completed by 2013.

As others have noted, the rate at which "landlines are going away" is greatly exaggerated. Aggressive estimates say about 1/3 of all lines will be VoIP by 2010 — others say fixed line penetration will still be 74% in 2010.

Even if killing the copper plant is the sane thing to do, it won’t happen, and the copper plant will still exist in 2013 and well beyond. It will go away, but not by 2013. As ridiculous as it sounds, it may even still be dominant in 2013.

Re: Thinking Blogger or Writing Blogger

Irony Abounds — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:10:01 -0000

I'm both, but more often I blog in the "think" style, as defined here (I agree that it is an oxymoron, in that blogs, and least for me, are intentionally informal).

I have posts, or post ideas, in the queue almost at any time. While working on (and thinking about) those, I may well spew out a few "write" style posts (or "write" leaning anyway) before one of the "think" style posts is done (some, well perhaps many, never make it to the blog).

I envy those that can apply the "write" approach to good effect.