Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

You have to understand that my friend Megan “Speedy” O’toole is a bit of a lawyer

so she couldn’t start blogging just like the rest of us using them new fangled internets, nooo she has to share her log by FAX…

From: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:45 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Blaxing, Alright – I have my topic – pass on your fax numbers!

ha ha great idea speedster… love the quixotic use of dead media for your blogging, i mean blaxing endeavor

too bad I can’t even remember how to even spell FAX let alone own such an arcane beast for myself…

i think there’s an online service that lets me sign up for a virtual fax number (which converts faxes to pdf’s and lets me read them on the screen – does this defeat the purpose?) but i might have to pay for it… I’ll see what i can do. this is clearly an important project.

your friend,
tom.

ps semantically (semiotically?) wise, i’m not sure Blaxing is the right word for it. You must remember blogging once stood for web + logging = blogging what you are giving us really Fax + logging = a good Flogging… 😉

In case you missed it (and space is filling up fast), this weekend is the (possibly world’s) first fully fledged Enterprise 2.0 Unconference. The roster is starting to look really good, and should be some great conversations. This one kindly hosted by the folks at Navantis with special recognition to Bryce.

official signup page is here

Am watching the excellent endgadget coverage of the Apple keynote. Apple phone so far vastly exceeding my expectations. Makes the Zune and the designers of just about every other phone to date look like retards. Massive highresolution screen, visual contact management, voicemail, itunes and iphoto synchronization that (seems to) Just Work. and wifi… and a fully featured webrowser (well, safari) with google maps and push email (like blackberry).

You have no idea how long i’ve been gritting my teeth waiting for a device like this for years as my pockets bulge over the years with phones, ipods, pocketpc’s, tablet pc’s… now if only it had a set of keys on it I’d only have to remember one thing leaving the house.

Gesture recognition, looks like a breakthrough UI.

fantastic. I think.

some reservations – Job’s keynotes make everything seem fantastic. Will it work as flawlessly off the demo stage. There’s no 3G (couldn’t fit chip/power requirements in the formfactor?). I guessing some of the fancier calling tricks may rely on proprietary carrier support? (gasp) only cingular? will it be unlockable? battery life? will it be ever in Canada? will it cost less than a whole iBook? Will it automatically cover itself in a milliard of fine scratches a femtosecond after you take it out of the box?

I dunno yet, but Mr Apple, I am ready for my review unit.

-photo by engadget

UPDATEThanks to Michele for pointing this out, check out the market reaction to the iPhone. Now that is how you give good demo. AAPL’s Market CAP is up just over 6 Billion today while the announcement shaved 222M off of the market cap just one competitor (RIM’s) today. Now that’s how you give good demo. I wonder how much value that is on a per-slide basis?

UPDATE 2I’ve made the front page of the Hamilton Spectator. A reporter gave me a call shortly after I posted this. I famous in Hamilton. (Appeared Jan 10, Hamilton Spectator, bottom of page 1 next to picture of Jobs at MacWorld)