Read this article on voice services at Google. Back to the future.
I envisioned, founded and launched - with the help of John Borthwick, founder of Betaworks - AOL By Phone. That was ten years ago. We acquired Quack; a voice recognition company, to help launch it.
The service still works. It combines email, voice mail-location based services; mapping and more onto your phone. You could browse the web via voice; have your email read to you; and even respond. It was fast and very accurate. You could ask for a phone number; a map and directions; a movie time; a sports team score; and then place a call. It leveraged our data in MapQuest and Moviefone and Digital Cities. It used presence from AIM and our technology and platform in email.
Click here for a nice article about our signing of Mike Knuble.
In our war room under “Want to Sign”, Knuble is the first name on a list of five players so I guess our staff prepared well. He wanted to play here and “we got our man” so praise be and a job well done.
Onward to a continuous upgrade and improvement for our team all within our budget and within our strategy framework. Go Caps!
The Washington Capitals’ fan standings in rank have improved according to ESPN. Click here to see our rankings.
Here is a wonderful write-up on MS from AOL Health. It is a great probing interview complete with a film embed from SnagFilms that documents A Certain Kind of Beauty. It is films and moments like this one that make me smile in satisfaction. This is a great film with a meaningful subject matter and great distribution surrounded by great editorial. Thanks AOL.
Today starts free agency. Wish us luck. We will need it.
We are being very circumspect today. Do not expect any glitz or big news. We will pursue some players that can help us in the immediate future but the criterion is that we do not want to sign any veteran players to long term, big, lucrative contracts.
We are up close to the cap as it is. We need flexibility to keep our core of young players together in the out years. We also believe in rewarding our own players more than someone else’s players. We do not feel like we are desperate to make a move. When you feel pressure, that is when you let agents and the market take advantage of you and you can make a signing that you live to regret. We have done that before as have most teams in the league.