Category Archives: jeff pulver

Paprika

July 25, 2007 – 7:02 am

Recently, the man in the Purple Shirt challenged the community to finally come up with compelling real time communication services. I suppose it was spoken during a moment of frustration for Jeff, as this industry has spent a lot of time and energy making these wonderful IP based technologies, but we are still doing pretty [...]

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Hello to the VON Show?

July 18, 2007 – 7:21 pm

I think I should make an honest apology for underestimating Jeff Pulver and his organization. I was wrong.

As you might recall, I did not attend last Spring’s VON show that grew from a conviction that the venerable conference’s best days were now behind it, and for content, it had gone off the tracks.  I surely [...]

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Goodbye to Von : Part 2

March 21, 2007 – 6:36 pm

I realized I only told half of the story during part one, but before I get to that, a little bird told me that my last post about VON might upset Jeff Pulver. Let’s hit that one right away.
If your name ISN’T Jeff, then let me be absolutely clear that Jeff is in every [...]

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End of an era… Goodbye to VON

March 19, 2007 – 8:51 am

It’s the end of an era for me…. for the first time in a decade, I am not going to the VON show. For the first time since my nine year old daughter was born, I am not attending. And that’s not just the US shows, throw a couple of VON Canada’s and [...]

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