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Social Media

PamFax 3.0 – Free Faxing to PamFax Fax-in Numbers; More Horsepower to Deliver Faxes.

by Jim Courtney on Tue, May 25, 2010 5:05 am

Since its version 1.0 launch in late 2007, PamFax has provided an easy-to-use web-based fax service, that allows you to send faxes worldwide without any hardware requirements. Initially a fax sending service, PamFax 2.0 introduced features such as a Windows print driver, support for Mac and Linux and inbound faxing to a local number [...]

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Categories Communications News, Service Providers, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

Tungle.Me 2.0 – Meeting Acceleration Through Participant Aggregation

by Jim Courtney on Tue, May 4, 2010 7:05 am

Over the past two years I have been occasionally reporting on Tungle, the meeting accelerator that facilitates scheduling meetings and conference calls. Tungle’s goals as a service are:

bring down barriers, such as different calendar programs, between companies and work teams
share availability (Busy/Free status only)
respect privacy and user control

In summary Tungle wants to be “the [...]

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Categories Communications News, Mobile Applications, Service Providers, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

Renee Blodgett: Skype’s Blogger-in-Chief & Robert Scoble Chat about Social Media

by Jim Courtney on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 10:07 am

Consider this a “Retweet for video”; in Renee’s dialogue/interview with/between Skype’s Chief Blogging Office Peter Parkes and Robert Scoble we learn a lot about the evolution of Skype’s approach to using social media.  Skype sees social media as a key channel for engaging customers in conversations as a complement to both their marketing and support [...]

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Categories Skype News, Skype Operations, Social Media

Tungle.me: Linking Tungle into Social Media

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Jun 2, 2009 7:06 am

Recently I wrote about the official launch of Tungle, the meeting accelerator that provides a cross-platform,  cross-calendar service for scheduling meetings via the web. In fact, with its new features I am now finding that 100% of my meeting requests have a response that results in a meeting. In other words the released version [...]

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Categories Communications News, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

SocialScope: Why BlackBerry?

by Jim Courtney on Tue, May 19, 2009 3:05 pm

Yesterday’s post, SocialScope: for a Complete, But Managed, Twitter Experience, outlines why I have found SocialScope to be the most complete Twitter client on any platform offered to date. But it only runs on BlackBerry. Why? A recent interview with Ubiquitous Systems CEO Amit Kumar provided the answers.
As their initial goal the Ubiquitous team [...]

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Categories Conversation Providers, Mobile Applications, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

SocialScope: for a Complete, But Managed, Twitter Experience

by Jim Courtney on Mon, May 18, 2009 5:05 am

When it comes to organizing and following my Twitter activity, I have found that SocialScope – currently in a closed beta and only available on BlackBerry – provides the most complete and most satisfying Twitter user experience. A recent interview with Ubiquitous Systems CEO Amit Kumar provided some additional background on how SocialScope evolved [...]

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Categories Mobile Applications, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

How To Recall You Own @Skype – Take Heed, Twitterers!

by Jim Courtney on Wed, Apr 8, 2009 5:04 am

If you own a brand name as a TwitterID, take heed. Twitter will reveal your ownership details to the brand owner. Nerdgirl Stephanie Robesky, a former employee of a venture fund established by the founders of Skype, was shocked recently into realizing she still owned the @Skype TwitterID even though she had moved on [...]

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Categories Skype News, Social Media