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Jeff Bonforte Leaves Yahoo!

February 16, 2008

Xobni just announced they have added Jeff Bonforte to their team. jeff is a super-talented programmer and spokesman and recently ran the Yahoo! IP communications products as well as a number of other areas of the company. He was the spokesman for the Yahoo! JetBlue internet access alliance as well.

Good luck Jeff and I hope you do well at Xobni. The question is, how many other Yahoo! execs will be defecting... Is this an isolated case? Probably not.

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P.S. Jeff has one of the best senses of humor in the business. Him and Andy Voss could start a tech comedy channel.

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Better than Free

February 16, 2008

In the world of VoIP, there is a serious problem... There are so many companies giving away telephony, how do you compete? Vonage sells service which is ridiculously cheap yet Skype gives their service away even cheaper and in some cases free.

In such a world, the companies in the space need to evaluate how they can add value to their service and products so that people will actually open their wallets and shell out their hard-earned cash.

For those vendors looking to monetize what many think is unmonetizable, you should check out this post by Kevin Kelley which focuses on ways to generate revenue in a world where everything seems to be going free.

Here is an excerpt:

Personalization — A generic version of a concert recording may be free, but if you want a copy that has been tweaked to sound perfect in your particular living room — as if it were preformed in your room — you may be willing to pay a lot. The free copy of a book can be custom edited by the publishers to reflect your own previous reading background.

Posted in Consumer Electronics, IP Communications, Microsoft, Skype, VoIP, Vonage, Wireless, Yahoo

Yahoo! Strong With the Poor

February 16, 2008

I thought I had heard it all. Now it seems that some are suggesting that Yahoo! is having problems because it is stronger in poor areas while Google is stronger in areas where people are affluent such as suburbs, etc.

Could this be part of their problem? Possibly.

Posted in Google, Microsoft, Yahoo

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