Voice 3.0: The Era Of API Calling

I just learned that Cloudvox is launching this week and it got me thinking. Cloudvox is one of the companies like client Voxygen, Voxeo, Twilio and also client ifByPhone and Ribbit which has grasped the power of voice APIs and made them available to just about everyone. What does all this mean? Well for starters, … Read more

A Waste Of Money, Time and Words

I have to laugh when I read that the FCC is investigating Google over not terminating calls somewhere that costs more money and where the reciprocal compensation model isn’t really “reciprocal.” To me, it’s a big waste of the money the FCC has to do far better things with, like working to get broadband in … Read more

The Problem With Pre-Ordering Electronics

It seems the electronics industry is now letting etailers establish pre-order sales as a way to produce just enough devices to meet anticipated needs. As someone who is an early adopter, and who likes being first, this would appear on the surface to be something meaningful. Except, as someone who has been around the wine … Read more

Catch the (Google) Wave @ eComm

Yesterday pal Phil Wolff was kind enough to see that I made it into the Google Wave beta. I’m still learning what it does but I can see that it does transform how we collaborate and how a conversation becomes more of a threaded experience than email, chat, IM and so forth. Overall I like … Read more

Kindle Goes International

CrunchGear’s John Biggs has the goods on the GSM and International release of the Kindle from Amazon. As a very happy Kindle user, I am thrilled to see this. Many friends outside of the USA have had major Kindle envy. As someone who cares about the environment the Kindle contributes to the savings by reducing … Read more