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  • LinkedIn and Skype $8B+ Valuations Contrast with Telecom & Networking Start-Ups which Can’t Raise Capital

    This is an interesting dichotomy. LinkedIn and Skype are $8B+ market cap software companies that have developed popular platforms (Social networking for “business professionals” and VoIP/conferencing) which depend on Internet access for customers. Yet, mature telecom and networking companies that provide the infrastructure (or “plumbing”) for the Internet have depressed stock prices. And more of…

  • A Great Present from Zurb for WordPress’ 8th Birthday

    A Great Present from Zurb for WordPress’ 8th Birthday

    What a great birthday present for the WordPress user; getting a chance to meet Matt Mullenweg and hear him share the story of WordPress and the vision that has made it a success. Mullenweg was everything I expected he would be based on years of reading his blog, Ma.tt; witty, affable, gracious, humble, team player,…

  • New Pole Attachment Rules Deserve a Look

    New Pole Attachment Rules Deserve a Look

    [Editor’s Note: Robert Primosch is a Partner with the Washington, D.C.-based, communications law firm Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP] OK, I’ll admit it – the title doesn’t scream “beach reading.”  That being said . . . 1.         So what’s happening? The FCC recently lowered the rates providers of telecommunications services pay to utilities for pole attachments.  It…

  • 2011 Capturing the Heart of the Heartland Tour Overview

    2011 Capturing the Heart of the Heartland Tour Overview

    The 2011 ViodiTV Capturing the Heart of the Heartland Tour is about telling the stories of the people and companies that are bringing telecommunications to rural America and the positive impact these efforts are having on the people of their communities.  To see some of these stories that Viodi has captured in years past, please…

  • WordPress Helping Build Community – From MLL to Japan

    WordPress Helping Build Community – From MLL to Japan

    The Japan Fundraiser at Moreland Little League complex, referenced in the previous issue of the Viodi View, was a success thanks to the hard work and dedication of the families and businesses associated with the Moreland MLL community. The boundaries of community, in this case, are not restricted by the lines of geography or even…

  • The National Broadband Plan Was Top of Mind

    The National Broadband Plan Was Top of Mind

    It is only two years ago that the talk of the MTA’s Annual Convention was the stimulus and last year the buzz was about the broadband plan that was one of the outcomes of the stimulus legislation. This year, talk kept coming back to implementation of the broadband plan. Bill Hegmann, Chairman of NECA, provided an…