This site has a ton of great hints/tips/projects utilziing the Asterisk open-source VoIP PBX project.
I found the series on using your bluetooth headset/handset as a ‘presence’ detector especially intersting. It explains how to use this detector to route your calls automatically based on your presence or absence. Trécool.
Nerd Vittles » 50 Great Halftime Projects Using Your Free Asterisk@Home PBX
Pamela is a ‘virtual assistant’ for Skype. There is a basic freeware version that provides quite a few usefull features, including auto answer, voice mail (Hurray!) and auto-reply to chat requests. I’m downloading it as I type this post; more later.
Pamela feature comparison | Free voice mail software and more for Skype by Pamela-Systems
One of the scariest phrases/clichéI hear in board meetings and conversations among VCs is .we need a suit to run this company. or its cousin .we need a suit to take this company public.. It is so scary because so many suits are empty.
All it takes is one company destroyed by an empty suit to make you realize that it.s what is in the head and the heart that matters not what kind of clothes the person wears.
This guy (Fred Wilson from FlatIron Partners in NYC) is my new hero. It doesn’t hurt that they are an investor in what might actually save broadcast radio, HD (Digital) Radio. That, and he specifically mentions facial hair, something near and dear to my chin, in his list of things cliche VCs don’t want to find on people running companies.
I’ve added a new plugin to WordPress that makes it a bit easier for folks to subscribe to my feed. ‘Subscribe Me‘ adds the handy buttons on the sidebar to enable one-click subscriptions for users of My MSN, My Yahoo!, Google and Bloglines as well as normal RSS users.
Be sure to let me know what you think of it.
Update: I’ve also switched the ‘theme’ (WordPress-speak for ‘visual design & layout’) of the site to something a bit less ‘defaultesque’.