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I've used Skype only once I think. The concept is good, the problem is that Skype becomes yet another IM-like tool. I feel that I can keep only so many apps like this running on my machine at one time. I have three apps like this running right now :Convoq ASAP, Chatango, and Miranda (for…

Can you imagine surfing the web if you had to remember all the digits of a website's IP address? For example www.cbc.ca resolves to: 208.38.45.182. I think typing in www.cbc.ca is much easier. Dr. Mockapetris, the inventor of domain names, discusses in this BBC article about how the system of domain names was just a…

Some good advice for the virtual company. I found many times moving away from the keyboard and picking up the phone resolved a question or problem in minutes. Voice inflection can be so important. As Dana points out, the article is a little dated, but still the concept is still true today. In Virtual Company…

Clearly AOL had to do this since both Yahoo and MSN had developed similar agreements. Even free IM is ligitimate within the business world now, so by adding these are a core requirement. Of course only fairly larger American companies could afford to take advantage of these services. Small businesses and consultants will need to…

This is a nice look back and forward on probably one of the most useful collaboration technologies since e-mail:IM BBC NEWS | Technology | Instant messaging grows up

Because, like many Internet folks, I just seem to need to be invloved in lots of projects I am also writing on another blog. My friend Jon Suk hosts this website (Borealis Networks) and he, my friend Aaron Sigurgeirson who does SEO, and I have another blog hosted by Borealis here. I can't really say…