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Our friends at iotum released their latest product yesterday amid a lot of positive industry buzz, and Hollywood-style excitement. Calliflower extends the functionality of iotum’s Free Conference Calling service on Facebook. FCC has been used by 200,000 people.

Calliflower is a web-based conference service that features an engaging easy to use interface (3 simple steps!). Business users can quickly set up conference calls, or use it to present content. Colliflower is also launching Communiques which features scheduled live chats with interesting people. Sign up here to listen to William Shatner talk about his latest book. This Communique is live on Thursday (6-8pm Pacific Time).

Here’s a screenshot for creating a new conference:

Congratulations to Alec and his team!

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SM friend Alec Saunders’ has the best perspective on the new iPhone that I’ve seen yet (in the past 12 hours, anyhow…)

Favourite quote:

I think RIM has to play catch-up on the handset, but I expect they can and will do that. The bigger issues to me are the structural ones around business model and marketing. Job’s et al are playing a different level of game than Mike and Jim. We’re watching the San Jose Sharks play the Kitchener Rangers.

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A wonderful thing these social networks. Plaxo has been emailing me for the past week to remind me that it’s (SM Friend, iotum CEO)
Alec Saunders’ birthday tomorrow.
Happy birthday, Alec!

The strange thing about Plaxo, is their “zeal” in trying to monetize these birthday announcements. I can send Alec a FREE ecard (which would likely get caught in the spam filter!) Plaxo offers me other options to show our “AlecIsOlderToday” love…

For $4 – A printed card, mailed. Not a bad deal actually – but the notice was too late.

For $25 – A bouquet of fresh flowers… what do you say Alec, daisies? daffodils?? carnations??? LOL

For $unlimited – Plaxo redirects me to the RedEnvelope site to choose sexy gifts for “her” (Alec)… gee… maybe it’s just me… but that profiling algorithm isn’t working quite right!

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I’m sure you’ve been there… if you haven’t The Secret Diaries of Steve Jobs is an hilarious take on Apple from “Fake Steve” aka Daniel Lyons (senior editor at Forbes.) One of his posts this week talks to the difficulty of negotiating carrier contracts for iphones in Europe. His solution is re-inventing the continent to have fewer countries! This is the map he wants to go by…

We got to thinking that more fake CEO blogs are needed… Right now we’re considering THE SECRET DIARIES OF ALEC SAUNDERS … “dude, I wrote the friggin’ Voice 2.0 Manifesto!”

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Fresh off the USPTO press – Cisco published a patent application this morning titled System and method for changing network behavior based on presence information.

A system and method for changing network behavior based on presence information includes detecting one or more presence indicators. The one or more presence indicators indicate presence information. An electronic persistent presence (EPP) is formed based on the one or more presence indicators. It is determined whether to change the network behavior from a first user policy to a second user policy according to the EPP. The second user policy associated with the EPP is implemented according to a determination that the network behavior is to be changed.

The interesting part is that the network component will be open to a number of “presence indicators”. I’m interpreting this as meaning that future networks will be able to natively respond to new presence indicators such as relationships and context. This is the kind of new presence often touted by Alec Saunders in his famous Voice 2.0 manifesto.

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