Andy Abramson Om has a post yesterday and another one today about The Venice Project and FON. What is very interesting here is how Skype founders were able to develop Venice while they were full time at Skype, but not have the intellectual property part of the Skype sale to eBay. This makes no sense, as most … Read more
Mark Evans has taken the “Jeff Pulver challenge” and gotten involved in a startup. This is a great move for Mark. Congratulations.
As a sign of things to come, it appears that T-Mobile is changing their tune in a good way about allowing VoIP on the data networks. The catch is that the users need to be on premium accounts.
When the Skype Journal gives Yahoo the clear cut victory in who is working with Developers in a better way, the world needs to know. This is about culture. eBay is a bank that’s preteneding to be a cool online merchant. At the end of the day, eBay takes money from one person or company … Read more
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Carl Weinschenk has a great post on IT Business Edge about the coming day of Interoperability with VoIP. I for one could not agree more. But to have true interoperability, we need to have SIP talk to SKYPE and Skype talk to SIP, not just have gateways, addresses, nodes and such that is beyond the … Read more
Jeff Pulver has made some very valid points about the blogosphere being a bit less enthusiastic about companies like RebTel (which I like) and Jajah where I just aired my views below. I completely agree with Jeff that lots of very smart people are behind some of these ventures, but my concern is not about … Read more
Ted, Alec and others are analyzing JaJah, and in turn the other “minute stealer” and data services enablers. I think this is all good, as the civil discussion about a new technology is certainly always warranted, and sorely needed. What everyone seems to have missed is that JaJah and Plaxo share a common backer, in … Read more
A lot of talk continues to swirl on the subject of Fixed Mobile Convergence this week, and with the Telecom 2.0 conference this coming week in London, I expect more viewpoints to be forthcoming. Dean Bubley, one of the more experienced and outspoken analysts on the subject explains why the enterprise market may not be … Read more
Somehow last week I missed this really insightful roundup on the “minute stealers.” Those are the Voice 2.0 companies which want to take your long distance mobile calls and make them cheaper. Well pal Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, reviews them and comes to a conclusion that is not too far off from my views.
