Mike Arrington and crew hot off of a spending spree has been in a gift giving Christmas in July mood. TechCrunch is giving away 50 oooma units. Hold on - I’ll explain what that is and yes Ashton Kutcher is the creative director for the company so stay tuned for the viral vids to start rolling out…
Ooma is a new service set to kick off in September, where they use a peer model to make domestic calls in the US free. No fee - just a hardware cost. That will run you about 4 bones. So hardware upfront - no hidden fees or fees on the backend. Read more about TC’s post here.
Simply comment and if you have a funny story - one of 50 is yours. I filled one out.
I’ll post unboxing pics and brief review if I win one.
July 24th, 2007 at 11:09 pm - Edit
My name is Joe Black and I have been held hostage for too long by my company. I need to get away on holiday or something. I no longer enjoy my job. Yes it has a good benefit and job security but I have not had a vacation in about 200 years or so. We are always overworked, understaffed ,overstressed, overburdened, and always in cost over runs.
My staff is always requesting overtime saying they needed more time to do their jobs especially these days with all the killings due to wars,famine, genocide, disease, obesity and it being the last days and all. I would like to work smarter not harder especially with it being the digital age and all. Computers and Technology have helped and benefited every other department why not ours. Yes using excel spread sheets have greatly improved work efficiency as well as PDA’s it replaced the one giant book we all had to share and carry around. We switched to smaller lists
but people were always loosing or misplacing them or having them stolen imagine the security nightmare for us. The less other stuff we have to carry the more packages we could carry and that would require a lot less trips to the the office Soul-bank depository meaning more gets during your shift. If I and my staff could only find a way to telecommute and still do our jobs it would be much more efficient process.
If only there was a way we could effectively multitask? Where we could execute the orders remotely and then through the day or night (depending on which shift you are working)pick up the orders. It would make things so much more easier to accommodate overload and lessen the back log of missed or forgotten packages. Thankfully the Sopranos are off the air that’s one less stop we have to make although it looked really good on our bottom line those 3 to 4 bodies per week can really add up. Saddam, the Colombian drug lords, C.I.A, F.B.I , Bush, and Microsoft are our biggest clients just to name a few. Although N.U.R.V was giving us a steady supply of bodies I mean packages before it went out of business. Bruce Willis, Tom cruise, and Will smith do a pretty bang up job by themselves alone. Charles Bronson, Bruce Lee provided a good supply before retiring them selves. The Underworld crew always provides a freash supply of ….packages as well.
Can You Imagine what we could do with OOMA Hmm ponder the possibilitiesfor a moment if you will!
well any who I have been known to have a wicked sense of humor but really you know what I am slaying. Get it slaying :).
With 1 phone call we start the collection process. How does Death by Conference calls sound? We could even open up a call center with agents standing by 24/7 working round the clock to fill orders. With OOMA this can be accomplished I check with ATT and Sprint their Celestial and Beyond the grave packages are murder. Get it murder
If only I had OOMA!:) I could maybe enjoy my job again.
Signed Sincerely yours Death …….. Oops I mean Joe Black!
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:26 pm - Edit
I think Nike’s are going to the retro look now for the more casual crowd. Their athletic line is ugly, but I like the retro looking ones.