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Since I don't yet have an iPhone, I can't really compare the two apps. BUT - the old adage that a picture tells a thousand words - so does the user interface. If based purely on the peceived user experience, which conferencing application would you choose? From the screenshots below it's obvious ...

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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 ...

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This morning, BallmerCorp published an application with the awkward title of "Providing Modified Notifications When Inferring a User Might Not Want to be Notified". The implication is that the user doesn't really know what he/she wants, so Microsoft will decide. From the first claim: when it is inferred that the user ...

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A few weeks ago Neatorama published a great review of the evolution of company logos. It's hard to believe that Google is 10 years old! It's logo has evolved, and is probably better than it would have been had they kept the original "Back-Rub". On the Ottawa startup scene we have iotum. ...

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Everyone wants to be viral - not from a biological or pathological perspective (not very enticing) - but a web perspective. A few local startups have had great success at creating enticing applications. We've talked before about iotum's Free Conference Calling on Facebook. The really interesting twist from iotum: it's not ...

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SM friend Alec Saunders announced yesterday that his Ottawa-based company iotum secured funding from VERDEXUS as well as appointing chairman Randall Horward. Now iotum has two Horwards! iotum has had great success in the past few weeks with its Facebook application Free Conference Calls. It offers a super easy interface to schedule ...

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Yes it's BarCamp time again in Ottawa, Canada. It's our 4th edition here, and it looks like it's going to be an overflowing house. Attendance is (unfortunately) capped at 120 people. It's back at BitHeads. It's totally free thanks in part to these great sponsors: The Ottawa Angel Alliance (cheer!); bitheads ...

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As iotum CEO Alec Saunders wrote - I dropped by a few weeks ago to chat with his team to bounce around ideas regarding the Talk-Now UI. It was a great discussion - and I left very impressed by the energy of the dev team - and their dedication to product quality. One ...

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It seems that iotum's Talk-Now is getting some well-deserved traction! Unfortunately for me, just before I was about to try Talk-Now on my Pearl, I lost the device to our dev team... the sacrifices we make!! But, I've seen Alec demo the service a few times. If you're a BB user - it's worth trying. Think ...

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