August 10, 2007 – 9:52 am
If you were to ask me, I would say the twenty year old software engineer has a distinct advantage over the older telephone guys (such as me) in the realm of innovation. Since the barriers to entry to deploying a service provider have fallen through the floor, the larger challenge is not in complex [...]
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 [...]
Gaboogie is a pretty cool idea. How often, in your professional life, do you find yourself trying to setup a conference call? Gaboogie aims to make that easier for you, in classic 37 Signals fashion. Gaboogie’s service makes it easy to setup a conference call between a small number of participants, and then [...]
Do you remember when VoIP companies actually had some sort of liquidity event? Well, if you DON’T work for Acme Packet, maybe you don’t! The Web 2.0 finance world continues to bubble with today’s news that StumbleUpon was snapped up by eBay for north of 40 million.
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Next Generation [...]
Well, off I go to the Web 2.0 show. Considering how much I learned at the ETel show, I’m sure that this is going to be another mind blowing experience. I really can’t pick which of the sessions I would like to attend - they all seem so necessary. I’ll tell [...]
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 [...]