Category Archives: web 2.0

Telephone’s Long Tail

Had a wonderful time last night before the Gigantes game doing a podcast with Narendra from 30 boxes. (I’ll post it when I get back home next week) I met with Nerendra a couple of weeks ago at the Web 2.0 show in San Francisco, and I had this lingering thought about Web 2.0 [...]

SQS: Messaging Backplanes in Communications Architectures

For me, 2007 looks like the year of messaging backplanes. As an architect, it’s a wonderful thing. Long a staple of enterprising messaging architectures, such as financial transaction applications, I believe it to be a very valuable addition to the standard telecom architecture. I’m doing two independent designs at the moment [...]

My Web 2.0 Talk

Thank you to Jack Ivers who put up this review and a link to my talk at Web 2.0.
My speech pathologist wife, who attended one of my talks for the first time said, “You didn’t swear once! Good job, honey. Now, let’s try to get you to slow down a little bit.”
Thomas S. Howe [...]

StumbleUpon Snapped Up

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.
Thomas S. Howe - http://www.thomashowe.com
Next Generation [...]

Web 2.0 Show Wrap Up

Well, the show is over, but the show head-spin hasn’t ended yet. Here’s some of my highlights I wanted to share with you.
Finally got to meet John Musser of Programmable Web fame. John runs (in our opinion) the premier site for finding state of the art mashups and APIs. Nice guy. Pat [...]

Thank you!

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. [...]

Off to the Web 2.0 Expo

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 [...]

Twitter vs. Jaiku? I’m worried…

Call me a big party pooper, but my gut reaction to this “Jaiku” vs. “Twitter” argument is worry. I’m worried because I have become to be a real flat-earther, and have a hard time seeing how either service can become super-unique or super-sticky over the long haul. I’m worried about the founder’s and [...]

Aikido, Retreat or War

I understand that most everyone else in the country is celebrating Maunday Thursday or Passover… I’m celebrating Alec Saunders Day. I suppose the vacation did him some good, as his blog is roaring away these days.
You should check out his analysis of the newly announced Office Communications Server, where he concludes that we now [...]

Enterprise Mashup of the Day, Voxeo Style

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 [...]