Thanks to everyone who turned out for the Telco 2.0 show in London! This show keeps getting better and better, and as long as they keep asking me to show up, I will. What a fantastic time I had. There’s so many highlights, I’m sure I’m forgetting some:
When I showed up, my first thought was [...]
As I cleaned out my basement this weekend, I happened upon some notes from graduate school. After I got over the shock of barely comprehending work I did almost twenty years ago, I sat down to go through some of the papers. Back then, and for my first few years in industry, I was a [...]
Like most engineers, when I see a technology that seems really easy to implement, I have this urge to dismiss it. Perhaps it’s the modern tech equivalent of Samuel Johnson’s quote : “What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” Enter click-to-call. Six months ago, when I thought of click-to-call, it was [...]
Too often, we seek success using complexity. Today, ifByPhone hits it out of the park with a simple and brilliant voice mashup solution: the ability to integrate direct-response call data with Web-based advertising available using Google Analytics, making it possible to gauge the overall effectiveness of a lead-generation campaign. Simply put, from a single view, [...]
Earlier this year, I mentioned to Lee that I thought March was a long time to wait to get together again. I also had this idea that I could say the same for about fifty other people, people who I only get to see at tradeshows, and then it was in a blurr of talks, [...]
That time of year again? Lee dropped me a note about eComm’s Call for Papers. If you are working in emerging telephony, and you’ve got something to say, why don’t you drop your name in the hat and send off a suggestion? For three years running, eComm has been the place where the people who [...]
The judge has ruled, and I accept his decision. A little more than a year ago, I remarked on Ooma’s product and service, and declared that they would not last a year. Dean Collins took me up a steak bet, and Alec agreed to be the judge. I lost. Congratulations to Dean on his steak [...]
Congratulations to Irv and the Chicago based IfByPhone crowd. Today, Information Week’s Serdar Yegulalp wrote up a review of the IfByPhone service - and loved it :
So far the award for Single Coolest Thing Done With Open Source at the Web 2.0 show has to go to Ifbyphone. These folks have used open source [...]
Mashups featuring BroadWorks VoIP address disaster recovery, business issues
GAITHERSBURG, MD, September 18, 2008 - BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of VoIP application software, today announced the winners of its BroadSoft® Xtended Voice Mashup Contest. Winning entries include applications for disaster dispatching, accounts receivable and an Adobe® Air development mashup.
The Xtended Voice Mashup Contest challenged Web 2.0 [...]
Or, in other words, the real story behind Comcast’s issue with network neutrality.
I ducked out of my business meetings today to share a beer with an old friend; someone whom I’ve crossed technical paths with for nearly a decade. After talking about the structural issues that prevent Enterprise customers from getting what they really [...]