Monthly Archives: November 2005

Ernie Applications

So, I’m on a hunt for possible Ernie applications, in some way to describe what the thing will do, but also to try to illustrate the hole in the space. The first place I’m looking for applications is the intersection of Web 2.0 APIs with the telephony/SIP space.
Of all the Web 2.0 APIs that [...]

Ernie Visions

At lunch today, I was trying to tell some geeky friends what Ernie was going to be. It was a good experience, because they were geeky, but not necessarily next-generation geeky. Here’s the tag line I came up with: Ernie wants to be the Apache of communications. Imagine the [...]

Put thy money where thou mouth dost lie

Well, I think I’m just about finished bashing Asterisk, although I have ONE more way to improve it to go. I’m going to save that for later. Now that it’s out of my system, I want to tell all of you (the three people who read this, including my Mom and my girlfriend), that [...]

A Smarter Man Wouldn’t Do This…

My blog is officially worth nothing. Nada. So, I don’t want any of you asking for your money back, OK?
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What should be fixed in Asterisk #2

The cult of personality.
Mark Spencer is certainly a most excellent man, and we all owe to him a big thanks for what he’s done for our industry. It’s time, though, to recognize that the real power of open source is in the community, and not in the business interests of the main sponsor. [...]