If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!After some speculations and rumors, Plaxo announces today that they’ve been acquired by Comcast. Plaxo will be part of Comcast Interactive Media and will continue to develop their product in their headquarter in Mountain View.  Plaxo and Comcast have been working together [...]

Tommaso Sorchiotti, blogger at www.microblogging.it and David Casalini (www.beemood.com) are the organizers of the first MicroBlogging BarCamp, taking place on May 24th in Milan. This is an sign that something important is happening in this area. New micro blogging services are coming up everyday and each of them often bring something new and original that makes the [...]

Vapps announces the rebranding of their conferencing suite with the name HiDef Conferencing. “We believe it’s definitely a tool for improved productivity because High-Definition Conferencing participants tell us the clarity they’re experiencing lets them better understand everyone speaking, especially those with foreign accents,” he said. “It stands to reason that people who can hear each other more [...]

eBay owns a minority stake of Craigslist but it seems that Craiglists is not happy about that. A spy story behind the two most popular classifieds and auctions websites on the Internet? In addition to unfair competition and fraudulent business claims, the countersuit accuses eBay of copyright infringement and using misleading advertising on Google Inc to [...]

Nimbuzz, the mobile VoIP/IM service I blogged about a couple of times in the past, announced today the availability of some new interesting features that help them to target social networks more closely and to offer mobile users an integrated and effective user experience. “Everyone loves Skype (on the PC). But when it comes to the [...]

The demise of Pulvermedia and the resignation of their chairman Jeff Pulver, father of VON conferences, are a big KO for the whole VoIP market. The biggest short-term problem I see here is all about communication between Pulvermedia and all the players, sponsors, delegates involved with VON conferences. The VoIP market is now taking decisions mainly [...]

I just wanted to give a brief update about my company’s Sitofono, the customer engagement service we have been offering since the 2nd half of 2006. I wrote many times in this blog about the need of a “human touch” to the e-commerce world. The need of a human on the line is something many big, [...]