Google landing page logos: 1

This is the first one for the year 2007.

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SKYPE: To pay or not to pay

I've been taking advantage of the free calls Skype allowed over the past several months. I used it often, only because I have a great headset to that sounds pretty good on the other end. But now that the dance is over, I need to decide if the service is actually worth paying for. So let me draw out some observations:

1. The sound quality wasn't too bad. There we're a few small glitches, but too many.
2. A lot of the time people wouldn't answer their phone, especially on a cell phone, when they saw the number 00123456789 as the incoming number,m I probably wouldn't either.
3. I don't have a lot of friends using Skype. A few, but not a lot, and most of the ones that do use Skype, don't have headsets readily available (which sorta defeats the purpose of being logged into Skype).
4. I like the fact I could be anywhere with a high speed connection and make outbound phone calls. But as a traveling business person, meaning, I'm not in my office all that often, it would be nice to of Skype to offer a business package (inbound, outbound, forwarding) or suite, that didn't cost a fortune. I would probably pay for that.

So, my conclusion, I probably won't pay for outbound only Skype. It's not a complete solution for me. Maybe I'll look to add the Vonage V-Phone to mobile office.

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Just what mobile screen space needs, more ads

As a frequent reader of Seth Godin, I'm excited to see what his latest post will bring. His rant over Verizon considering selling ad space on an already tight mobile phone screen is simply outrageous. In my opinion, John Harrobin should be tossed. If for nothing else than an attempt to alienate his customers. If I were on the BOD of Verizon, he would be gone before the end of the day. But that's just me. I'm not a Verizon customer thank God, and if they go to ads on phones I never will be.

T-Mobile... are you hearing this? You already have the crappiest phone selection on the market, please don't make it worse by falling victim to the ad game.

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The Z-List Links

This is a great meme, I just couldn't resist. Lot's of link love. Saw this orginally on Seth Godins site. If you want to participate, go for it. Make sure to add my additions to the main list, add your own, visit all the links. Have fun.

Here are my additions to the Z-List

• digitalthom
  


• Tyler Whitaker
  


• Joel on Software


• Blog Maverick


• RSS Pundit


• LifeHacker


• Seth Godin

• John Windsor


• Michelle Marts


• Jennifer Rice


• Geno Church


• Being Peter Kim


• Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman’s Blog About Surprise


• Billions With Zero Knowledge


• Working at Home on the Internet


• Kinetic Ideas


• Unconventional Thinking


• Buzzoodle


• NewsPaperGrl


• The Copywriting Maven


• MapleLeaf 2.0


• darrenbarefoot.com


• Shotgun Marketing Blog


• BrandSizzle


• bizsolutionsplus


• Customers Rock!




• Two Hat Marketing


• The Emerging Brand


• The Branding Blog


• CrapHammer


• Drew's Marketing Minute


• Golden Practices


• Viaspire


• Tell Ten Friends


• Flooring the Consumer


• Hee-Haw Marketing


• Scott Burkett's Pothole on the Infobahn


• On Influence & Automation


• Bullshitobserver


• Servant of Chaos


• Frozen Puck


• The Sartorialist


• Small Surfaces


• Africa Unchained


• converstations


• eSoup


• Presentation Zen


• Dmitry Linkov


• aialone


• John Wagner


• Nick Rice


• CKs Blog


• Design Sojourn


• Perspective


• ¡Hola! Oi! Hi!


• Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!


• Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together


• Social Media on the fly


• gDiapers


• Marketing Nirvana


• Multi-Cult Classics


• Logic + Emotion


• Branding & Marketing


• Popcorn n Roses


• Bob Sutton


• Jeremy Latham’s Blog


• SMogger Social Media Blog


• Masey.com


• MovieMarketingMadness


• UniqueEpitome


• ReBang


• uzyn


• TheQualitativeResearchBlog


• MineThatData


• Experienceology


• Freaking Marketing


• Really Small Fish


• The Orange Yeti

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Tweaking the site

Sorry for any disruptions with the site. I've switched hosting providers and there have been a few small glitches. But, hopefully everything is back up and running.

Check out the Archives, the Photos, and something About Me. Have a great day.

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