--- title: "November 24, 2006" url: https://technologyvoices.com/archive/2006/11/24/ description: "Entries filed on Technology Voices on November 24, 2006: VC Priorities and WIVOIP, Webjam - European Web 2.0, Evil twin WiFi hackers know their target - rich people." published: 2006-11-24 updated: 2006-11-24 --- # November 24, 2006 Published 2006-11-24 10 entries filed this day ## VC Priorities and WIVOIP Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com Seed-Funded WiVOIP Startup To Seek Financing I’m curious how VCs make decisions and thought this line in an alarm:clockarticle about new Wireles VOIP company WIVOIP was interesting: “The “rare and unique” opportunity to assemble a team of this quality with “perfect market timing”First let me be pedantic. Rare and unique are conflicting terms. Unique is... Filed at 7:49am ## Webjam - European Web 2.0 Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com Webjam Launches - MySpace Plus Netvibes on Steroids (Mashable)Webjam got a bit of a mauling yesterday from Mashable who found it trying to do too many things and mixing its messages.“a “social media ecosystem” that helps people to “aggregate and sharecontent with the communities they join”. It took me a long, long timeto figure out... Filed at 8:07am ## Evil twin WiFi hackers know their target - rich people Editor · Disaster Recovery / Intrusion Prevention / Security Bogus hotspots aka ‘Evil Twins’ was found in the first class lounge of an international airport, and in garages that specialise in expensive cars that offered Wi-Fi while you wait, reports Iain Thomson of Vnunet.The article defines the evil twin like this:So called ‘evil twin’ attacks involve putting a wireless access point near a commercial... Filed at 11:26am ## When Black Friday Comes ... Editor · VoIP Apologies to Steely Dan, but "Black Friday" is here! By the time many of you see this, you will be have spent the early hours of the day on some awful line in order to be a great deal on a gadget of your choice. Filed at 11:44am ## Trademark ruling makes it easier to unlock your cell phone Editor · Wireless Wireless carriers in the US have long fought consumer's desires to take their phone with them when they change providers so they can keep using their old phone. Carriers like to lock the consumer in t Filed at 11:44am ## Contd: Web 3.0 Commentary etc.. [Kingsley Idehen](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/54/) · Founder & CEO, OpenLink Software · Software Development This post is part contribution to the general Web 3.0 / Data-Web / Semantic Web discourse, and part experiment / demonstration of the Data Web. I came across a pretty deep comments trail about the aforementioned items on Fred Wilson's blog (aptly titled: A VC) under the subject heading: Web 3.0 Is The Semantic Web. Filed at 11:55am ## Beliefs around learning Editor · Knowledge Management If you are involved with KM, you likely will have reflected on the connection(s) between learning and knowledge. Here are thoughts from Anecdote shared in their monthly newsletter: people don't think they've learned anything until they've reflected on what happened.The... Filed at 1:39pm ## GNOTE Conference Editor A new organization for technology evangelists has just been formed in Silicon Valley. (Secular evangelism has arrived!) The organizations first conference is coming up on December 4th. Here is the agenda. Network Meeting Center 5201 Great America Parkway Santa Clara... Filed at 2:44pm ## Book Review - Digital Identity by Phil Windley Editor Ever noticed how many of the most useful books are really short? Kernighan and Ritchie on C Programming and Kent Beck on Extreme Programming come to mind, well now we have a short, to the point, and similarly useful book on identity Phil Windley's book, "Digital Identity". Increased integration, security concerns, distributed computing, SOA and Web Services, privacy issues, crimeware/malware, and compliance all conspire to make identity a mission critical element in software architecture. Many of the key concerns get... Filed at 6:59pm ## How many Microsofties does it take to implement the Off menu? [Joel Spolsky](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/30/) · CEO, Fog Creek Software · Software Development Moishe Lettvin , who spent a year working on the menu I criticized yesterday : “So that nets us a conservative estimate of 24 people involved in this feature.” Filed at 7:35pm [Back to the full archive](https://technologyvoices.com/archives/)