Startup

  • Michael Arrington just posted about Jott, a company that is emerging from the shadows to offer voice to text delivery of voice messages: Jott to Convert Cell Phone Calls to Text It’s very simple – a user calls a specific phone number and leaves a voice message along with a recipient or recipients (an obvious…

  • Stuff I’ve read, or added to my inbox to read: Seth Godin on being done – http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/04/done.html AlphaMale on KitKat’s success in Japan – http://alphamale.typepad.com/blog/2006/04/how_kitkat_beca.html Guy Kawasaki on Engineers and their lies – http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/04/the_top_ten_lie.html The Slacker Manager on office politics – http://slackermanager.com/2006/04/how-to-avoid-office-politics.html Pittsburgh’s Future reports on shaky air quality ratings standards – http://pittsburghfuture.blogspot.com/2006/04/misleading-rankings-on-air-pollution.html

  • Om Malik points us to a pretty interesting startup company based in the Bay Area, Tello.  The premise behind Tello’s technology is to provide us a sense of where a particular contact is available.  In other words “Presence”, as Om notes.  He points to several interesting articles, one from the Wall Street Journal and another…