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. [...]
The New Voice of Presence Deep in the DNA of every living being grows an irrepressible desire to control and modify the world that surrounds it. Every fall, whales migrate from the coast of Maine south to warmer waters, while chickens huddle on cold winter nights in the corner of [...]
I had the immense pleasure of meeting the Voxeo team today - truly customer focused, truly cool people. I love to meet companies like this, because their commitment to the customer and to each other is inspirational. I also love to meet companies like Voxeo because they are finding business success by [...]
March 21, 2007 – 10:23 pm
Now that I’ve stuck my foot firmly in my mouth, it’s time to come clean on what I think the future of our industry is. I’ll put together a comprehensive article about it soon, but as a preface to it, here’s my “Next Generation Communications Primer”. Each item in the list is critical [...]
March 16, 2007 – 12:17 am
As I restart my consulting and custom development practice, I find it useful, at all times and everywhere, to chant my new mantra. After being in the traditional carrier space for so long, feeling the suffering that only comes from seeking satisfaction from something inherently unsatisfying, I feel as though I have finally achieved [...]
March 14, 2007 – 12:09 am
The one thing I have noticed about myself is that, in a strange situation, I go back to what works. For instance, I practice Karate, and for fun, I attend a Judo class. If I’m in a Judo class, and I just can’t seem to find a good way to throw my opponent, [...]
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 [...]
Many of the people who approached me after my talk at O’Reilly emerging telephony were interested in the use of Amazon Turks in the mashup. An Amazon Turk is a real human being, found through the Amazon Turk Web service, hired to do a small job. By small, I mean something they can do [...]
There were so many fantastic people, technologies and presentations last week at the show, that I probably won’t have time to blog about them all… but a few I just have to dish about.
The Human Race is a student project by Summer Bedard presented at last week’s O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Show, and at first I [...]