Category Archives: amazon turks

Thank you!

April 17, 2007 – 8:57 pm

Thank you to everyone who attended my session today at the Web 2.0 expo. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did - I am always amazed at how amazing the things you do are.
A few people asked me for the slides, and I have uploaded them on SlideShare here. [...]

By Thomas Howe | Also posted in mashup, thomas howe, web 2.0 | Comments (3)

Amazon Web Services in Telephony

March 7, 2007 – 6:50 pm

With all this talk about Amazon Turks, I wanted to push another idea out there which I think is just as important : EC2 and S3.
EC2 stands for the “Elastic Computing Cloud”, which is Amazon’s rent-a-server service. Need a server for an hour? Rent it for an hour. You package your standard web-like program [...]

By Thomas Howe | Also posted in thomas howe, voip 2.0, voip mashup | Comments (5)

Web 2.0 Expo, here I come!

March 7, 2007 – 6:41 pm

In a surprising lack of judgement, the nice folks at O’Reilly have asked me to join them in San Francisco from April 15th to April 19th to handle a session called “Writing Voice Mashups with Mechanical Turks and Maps”. Brady Forrest asked me if I would extend the nurse’s interface so to include [...]

By Thomas Howe | Also posted in ETech, mashup, thomas howe | Comments (0)

A sick thought…

January 25, 2007 – 9:29 am

I just had a sick thought.
I’m presenting tomorrow in the “VoIP Spam : Challenges and Solutions” panel, which means (of course) I’m writing it now. The other distinguished members of the panel appear are vendors, so my supposition is that they are selling solutions. Since I’m not a vendor, I’m writing about challenges. [...]

By Thomas Howe | Also posted in DSP, SPAM, SPIT, voice SPAM, voip mashup | Comments (0)