Reading & Resources

Business practices continuously evolve, with new ideas being tested every day. I dedicate a large portion of my professional time to being informed on these changes, so I can help my clients determine what’s relevant to their business.

Here’s a feed to what I’m reading and liking at the moment.

• TeleSocial Opens API, Allows You To Add Voice Chat To Almost Anything | TechCrunch
  Published: October 12, 2011
  Source: techcrunch.com
  Matt's Note: Kinda cool. Not sure I'd want to talk with everyone I interact with online though.
• More pain please | Econsultancy
  Published: October 12, 2011
  Source: econsultancy.com
  Matt's Note: Like this post. Bit long near the end but the message is a good one to those building software.
  Pain is indeed a sign that something isn’t working. The testing phase of most projects is painful, for example, because it’s telling us about all the mistakes we made earlier in the project. 
• Shifting Into Overdroid: Are you prepared for the takeover? [Infographic] (via Summify)
  Published: July 7, 2011
  Source: Summify
  Matt's Note: 500,000 device activations per day. Wow.
• The Technium: The Shirky Principle (via Summify)
  Published: June 26, 2011
  Source: Summify
  Matt's Note: Great stuff.
• Back to the Future: SIP and Web APIs | Tekelec blog
  Published: June 17, 2011
  Source: www.tekelec.com
  It may be of interest to readers of this blog that recently a thought-provoking Internet Draft was published by Henry Sinnreich et al: SIP APIs for Communications on the Web - draft-sinnreich-sip-web-apis-00. I...
• Hacking Skype Phonetically « Skype Journal
  Published: June 1, 2011
  Source: skypejournal.com
• Unified Communications Professionals Group News | LinkedIn
  Published: June 1, 2011
  Source: www.linkedin.com
• Five Best Apps for Real-Time Video Chat - Lifehacker
  Published: May 18, 2011
  Source: lifehacker.com
  Thanks to video chat, staying in touch with friends, loved ones, and colleagues anywhere in the world has never been easier. Here's a look at five of the most popular applications that allow you to get a little...
• Microsoft + Skype: The infographic | The Microsoft Blog - seattlepi.com
  Published: May 18, 2011
  Source: blog.seattlepi.com
  Matt's Note: Interesting visual
  Microsoft + Skype: The infographic
• All Things Connected: *Qualcomm* Executives Talk About Mobile Complexity
  Published: May 6, 2011
  Source: Google Alerts - "samsung video security" OR "real-time innovations" OR
  Singotel OR Digimat OR Intercall OR SanDisk OR Tekelec OR "Verizon wireless"
  OR qualcomm OR "china mobile"
  Matt's Note: Qualcomm demonstrated a new proximity-based, peer-to-peer networking technology called FlashLinq
  What do the top executives at Qualcomm view as the key developments as mobile communications accelerate with the proliferation of smartphones, tablets, and other wireless devices? At a town hall forum last nig...
• iPad vs PlayBook: Who Cares?
  Published: April 21, 2011
  Source: (title unknown)
  Tony Wanless Who cares about the "battle" between the Apple iPad and RIM PlayBook?
• India adds 14.5m mobile users in March
  Published: April 21, 2011
  Source: Total Telecom RSS Feed
  Matt's Note: Wow. Not bad for a month.
  Indian mobile customers now total 569.56 million.
• OS Watch: RIM Embraces Android at Arm's Length
  Published: March 25, 2011
  Source: Light Reading:
  Android apps will run on the PlayBook, smartphones won't get Honeycomb and iPad growth impresses in this week's OS rundown
• NetScout buys Psytechnics for unified communications video quality
  Published: March 30, 2011
  Source: News from Connected Planet Online
  U.K. firm, a former BT spin-off, lines up with NetScout as telepresence quality moves front and center
• In brief: SingTel raises stake in Bharti Airtel to 32.25%
  Published: April 10, 2011
  Source: Total Telecom RSS Feed
  Singapore operator buys 2.83 million more shares in India's biggest mobile player.
• World's 8 Most Annoying Successful People
  Published: February 28, 2011
  Source: (title unknown)
  Shawn Conner Successful, ubiquitous, and annoying as all hell.
• News Corp Goes Carbon Neutral: Surprised? (You Shouldn’t Be)
  Published: March 3, 2011
  Source: CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com
  Matt's Note: Oh, the irony.
  And the award for first carbon neutral media company in the world goes to? Drum roll please! News Corp. Yes, you read right. The parent company of Fox News, home to some of the worst climate misinformation in...
• Online video sharing doubles within a year
  Published: February 23, 2011
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  Matt's Note: Wow. 40% of all YouTube vids seen through Facebook. They just rule so many spaces now.
  New figures released by Unruly Media show that online video sharing has doubled in volume in the past nine months. The firm, which runs the Viral Video Chart, measured sharing activity across Facebook, Twitter...
• Integrating search and display challenging for marketers: report
  Published: January 14, 2011
  Source: Latest Strategy & Planning content from Econsultancy
  According to the study, despite the fact that the majority of marketers surveyed devote more than 50% of their spend to search and display, over half (60%) still rely on spreadsheets -- yes, spreadsheets -- to...
• Why 2011 Will Be a Big Year for Big Data: Cloud Computing News «
  Published: February 2, 2011
  Source: gigaom.com
  With enterprise data volumes growing, business and IT leaders face significant opportunities and challenges from big data. The space, of course, is not without its obstacles — including plenty of privacy conc...
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