It’s official, TCG is producing the Blogtropol.us Lounge at Web 2.0 Expo, starting April 23 here in San Francisco. This is shaping up to be a great event, although it will be different from past tech event lounges. Our very generous sponsors are providing some great stuff for the lounge attendees – libations, [...]
Amphibian Hops onto the Scene
The past few of weeks have been pretty busy, as the TCG team prepared to launch Ribbit’s new consumer service - Amphibian - on Monday. We got some great coverage here and here, and yesterday, the Ribbit co-founders demoed the new service at DEMO 08 conference in Palm Desert, to a very warm reception. There are rumors floating around [...]
Cisco to the WiMAX
Om Malik of GigaOM, among others, are reporting today that Cisco has finally announced their $330 million acquisition of WiMAX vendor Navini Networks. Navini will join fellow acquirees (?) Linksys, Sipura Technology, and a few others in the growing Wireless Networking Business Unit.
This is an interesting buy for Cisco, because WiMAX isn’t in widespread use here [...]
Comcastic?!? Not So Much…
The blogosphere continues to boil over last week’s findings by The Associated Press that Comcast is actively blocking traffic for BitTorrent, Gnutella, and even LotusNotes (what?). I could understand, but not necessarily approve, the logic if the activity was limited to legally copyrighted material, but the Bible? Come on. The evidence is looking pretty damning at this [...]
Starting Out…
After leaving the great folks at Eastwick Communications, and after taking a very, long week off, I’m happy to say that today is my first day at The Conversation Group. It’s great to be back in action, and to be working with the TCG team. I will be working with some really great clients in the telecom space, [...]
