Bill French's (bfrench) Blog

You don't have to look long to find a story about technological disruption; I think the term is overused and the true definition is misinterpreted in many cases.Criagslist is a pretty cool service - most people agree it's disruptive - it qualifies as a disruptive technology for these reasons.Comp...

Because *any* VoIP service can be configured on-the-fly - Skype just happens to be the best available and largely free. Consider how important context is to everything you do. If you're in a deli having a business meeting and you recieve a 2 gigabyte PDF file on your PDA, it's not going to be ver...

Web 2.0 (as many of you have seen) is the new emerging model of the Internet that refers to a second generation of Internet-based services that let people collaborate and share information online in new ways such as social networking sites, wikis, weblogs, communication tools, and folksonomies.At...

Some time ago I made a few references to emerging terminology and even defended a reference to Real Estate 2.0. Today I happened to see this rather dated article (June 2006) - Web 2.0 Has Corporate America Spinning. My favorite quote from the article --"If these Web 2.0 folks weren't so geeky, th...

If you haven't had a chance to read Jason's AR blog (and other content), do so - lots of great tips - the guy is sharp.In a recent post, Jason explores the use of Technorati and how to integrate it with your ActiveRain blog through a "claiming" process. I'm indifferent about Technorati because I'...

There's no shortage of misinformation concerning RSS, Blogs, and Web feeds. I recently read an interview in a highly respected national technology publication and I snagged these interview questions as useful points to help us understand the verbiage of RSS."You hear a lot these days about RSS ne...

No other industry seems to be so mislead or misguided concerning the number of domains needed to do business on the Internet than the real estate industry. You folks are popping new domains like tic-tacs. Did NAR force y'all to take a class or something? I believe there are about 2.5 million real...

It's an interesting notion - the idea that within the Web 2.0 movement are many smaller movements that each have their own attributes. I don't know who created the actual term (Real Estate 2.0) but I guess it's one of those things that just emerged.This post is really a comment to Kristen's post ...

I have a really cool Siemans cell phone/Windows Mobile device; I can do almost anything on it. In fact, I can even deploy a blogsite from it. But I'm not a true mobile professional, so I'm not ga-ga over the services that Soonr provides. Soonr is a recently funded startup of team A technology pla...

It’s 2006 and 200 million people are using the Internet to speak to friends, colleagues, and family. At any given moment more than 4,000,000 VoIP conversations are taking place on the Internet – all bypassing traditional telephony services.The other day [on a newsgroup email thread] I happened to...