Using The Medium

SightSpeed CEO Peter Csathy is talking all the time about drinking his own kool-aid. Beside starting a blog, he’s now using the SightSpeed video mail feature to tell the story. This is really making use of Video to tell the story directly to the audiences who matter. If you note he’s asking for your feedback … Read more

Video Conferencing in Assisted Living?

The NSP Strategist thinks assisted living facilities are prime candidates for video conferencing. I tend to agree, but with a caveat. Recently I looked at some for my mother, who at 86 years young, is still able to do things on her own. My disappointment with all of them was their total lack of Internet … Read more

Will WebCams’ Replace Home Movies?

Garrett (Top 30 Picker) Smith has an interesting post about home movies. In my view until easy to use production tools are integrated into web cam, video conferencing and video blogging sites, apps and tools, we will see two types of videos. A. The talking head B. The offline edited video What is needed are … Read more

GooTube Mobile

Katie writes about GooTube “goin mobile.” In my book that technology is lead by Vpod.tv. Pal Rodrigo has had this running for over a year, recently took in some vc money. Even though he’s based in France his technology rocks.

Time For Enterprise Asterisk

The future for Asterisk in my mind will be built upon adoption in the enterprise, not by small five to ten end point deployments. According to those close to the Asterisk community Digium is projecting this a few years down the road, but Southern California based Fonality is better poised in my mind to move … Read more

Catching Up on VoIP

The blogosphere has been a buzz since Monday when TalkPlus launched. If you do a fast and easy blogsearch you will see how positive the coverage by many of the VoIP bloggers so I don’t need to go into all the capabilities it has. Yesterday I went out an purchased a Cingular Razr and swapped … Read more

Skype Defections Continue To Mount

Since eBay took over Skype the revolving door of long term Skype team members has been running on automatic. Om points to another defection in the ranks. Over the past few months their external PR team, led by Lisa Hempel and Erica Jostedt has also seen departures. Both have left SparkPR to seek greener pastures.

Apple Gets What Sprint Doesn’t

Since returning to the Mac world some 18 months ago I’ve had what I would call overall a more than happy experience with Apple, other than their going into denial mode about the Sudden Shutdown Syndrome my black MacBook experienced this past summer. Basically, as a regular customer Apple has kept me totally informed about … Read more

Jon Arnold On TelePresence

Uber Analyst Jon Arnold seems to pop up often with insightful and witty comments about all things IP Communications. Just yesterday Jon’s words of wisdom crossed the wires as part of a very well written VoIP Magazine story about Cisco and Telepresence. Jon’s comments, and those from others in the story underscores the hurdles I … Read more