September 25, 2008 – 11:33 am
The judge has ruled, and I accept his decision. A little more than a year ago, I remarked on Ooma’s product and service, and declared that they would not last a year. Dean Collins took me up a steak bet, and Alec agreed to be the judge. I lost. Congratulations to Dean on his steak [...]
September 19, 2008 – 10:33 am
Congratulations to Irv and the Chicago based IfByPhone crowd. Today, Information Week’s Serdar Yegulalp wrote up a review of the IfByPhone service - and loved it :
So far the award for Single Coolest Thing Done With Open Source at the Web 2.0 show has to go to Ifbyphone. These folks have used open source [...]
September 19, 2008 – 8:40 am
Mashups featuring BroadWorks VoIP address disaster recovery, business issues
GAITHERSBURG, MD, September 18, 2008 - BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of VoIP application software, today announced the winners of its BroadSoft® Xtended Voice Mashup Contest. Winning entries include applications for disaster dispatching, accounts receivable and an Adobe® Air development mashup.
The Xtended Voice Mashup Contest challenged Web 2.0 [...]
September 17, 2008 – 10:23 pm
Or, in other words, the real story behind Comcast’s issue with network neutrality.
I ducked out of my business meetings today to share a beer with an old friend; someone whom I’ve crossed technical paths with for nearly a decade. After talking about the structural issues that prevent Enterprise customers from getting what they really [...]
September 9, 2008 – 2:17 pm
For the last two days, I’ve been attending the Serena Tag conference in Santa Clara. If you are unfamiliar with the Enterprise side of mashups, Serena is the maker of the Mashup Composer. The mashup composer is a tool designed to capture and deploy business processes at a level appropriate for the typical [...]
September 8, 2008 – 4:09 pm
For communications mashups, like the Disaster Dispatcher, one important question to answer is “How long do they take?” Now that I’ve done a few of these, and it seems like I’m doing them more and more and more…. I’m getting a sense for it. First, though, let me give the appropriate warnings [...]
September 3, 2008 – 6:11 pm
Now that I’ve had some sleep, let’s look inside the disaster to learn some stuff about voice mashups. First, let’s see how it matches up with what the hallmarks of a voice mashup are:
Not a Voice Application : First, even though this is a submission for the Broadworks mashup contest, this isn’t a voice application. [...]
September 3, 2008 – 12:12 am
Well, at least I hope so.
Over the holiday weekend, I dusted off TextMate to send my entry in the Broadsoft XTended competition called “The Disaster Dispatcher”. Like most of my work, it’s business process oriented stuff, this time aimed at the emergency management market. I wanted to make this entry very light and fast, [...]