Category Archives: Podcasts

30 Boxes - It’s your life

Earlier this year, Ted Gilchrist was a finalist in the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Mashup Contest when he integrated Voice XML with an online calendar called 30Boxes. I had the chance to speak with the CEO, Narendrea, and I wanted to share it with you.

Sean O’ Sullivan - MySay

At the recent E-Tel Show, I had the pleasure of hearing about an upcoming service called MySay. MySay is a sort of community mailbox, where you can leave voice mail messages for others to hear. Sean was such a good speaker, with a really interesting service, that I wanted to share it with you.

Gregory Cypes : AOL

AOL Mashups and Ambient IM
I met Gregory Cypes at the MIT Mashup Camp, and I had to have him on a podcast. Gregory is a seven year member of the AOL IM team, and is now working on the new AOL Web APIs. At MIT he showed his ambient IM application, listening on the [...]

Introducing Loki

Ryan Sarver and I met at the mashup camp at MIT last month, where we both were in the real time mashup section. Ryan works for Skyhook Wireless, and announced the availability of the Javascript APIs for Loki in our session. Loki provides Web APIS and a browser plug-in that uses wireless access points to [...]

SPAM over IP Telephony

In the first of the Voice Over IP Expert Series, we look at SPAM over IP Telephony. Recorded live at the Internet Telephony Show in Fort Lauderdale Florida with our moderator, Jon Arnold.

Internet Telephony Show

I met up with Jon Arnold at the Internet Telephony Show in Fort Lauderdale to talk about all the cool things we saw.

Call Control

In this episode, we look at the protocol that tells the phones to start and stop ringing. Sounds so simple, doesn’t it?

Voice Itself

In this podcast, we look at the V in VoIP - the voice. We cover how it’s captured, recorded, compressed and put onto the network. There’s probably something you didn’t know about voice compression here - like how many packets CAN you miss before you notice they’re gone?

Introduction to VoIP

The first episode of the VoIP Literacy Series of podcasts. Starts by defining VoIP, explaining the unexpected roots of packetized voice and giving some idea of why VoIP is really cool. Oh yes, and a nice Frank Zappa style break in the middle.