Andy Abramson I have to say it. AOL Voice Team–I told you so. It was at eComm 2008 at the opening night reception when I said AOL and VoIP won’t be around long. Now I read that I was right. Next up on the to be shuttered predictions list is AT&T CallVantage and likely Earthlink’s TruVoice. Makes … Read more
It’s obvious to me that the travel industry is fearing video conferencing. All you have to do is read this Dallas Morning News story and you can tell that the pressure is now on the travel industry overall to justify the high costs in light of technology that’s coming down in price every month. At … Read more
I caught a very good article summarizing a bunch of applications for smartphone users in today’s New York Times. It’s timely, as the spring season arrives, we see more people on the road. With these apps lots of activities just got easier.
If I was looking for a marketing lead in the online, comms or video space, heck, just about any business, one of the first people I’d pull from the pool of “available” talent would be my buddy Eric Quanstrom…who is now a free agent as he and Logitech have parted ways as Surfer Boy didn’t … Read more
I have to say, with all due respect to other conference organizers that Lee Dryburgh and his band of advisors, led by the likes of Jon Arnold, Dan York, Brough Turner, Phil Wolff, Alan Duric and others really worked hard to make this year’s eComm the best ever. When we ended after three days at … Read more
Yesterday I spoke with an upcoming reporter named Jason Hahn from Northwestern Universities Journalism program at Medill, one of the nations better J-Schools. I have an open door policy for students, and even lecture from time to time as without my college experiences at Temple University, and lots of mentors, I never would have had … Read more
It’s always rewarding when you’ve worked to help someone who has put their heart and soul into an event, the way Lee Dryburgh has with eComm receive some favorable coverage. After eTel was jettisoned by it’s producer, the Emerging Technology community was looking for a continuation of what had been started. When Lee stepped up, … Read more
I just learned that Skype is going to be working with SpinVox on converting and delivering voice mail messages that are received by Skype users. SpinVox will convert the voice messages to text in four languages: English, Spanish, French and German. The messages are then sent by Skype as an SMS text directly to a … Read more
Let’s face it, the baby Bell type telcos never really were in love with VoIP. For those telcos here in North America who tried it, specifically AT&T with the likely soon to be mothballed Call Vantage, Verizon’s extinct VoiceWing and now from Canada the cancelled WebCall service from SaskTel, we’re seeing a pattern. The pattern … Read more
If I ever had a question about how to grow a business that can be built for something bigger, one of the first friends I’d reach out to would be former SightSpeed CEO Peter Csathy. As both an advisory board member with SightSpeed, and then as their agency of record, I got to work and … Read more
