Ironically, I started on this post on Saturday, but being my wife’s birthday weekend, I left this sit. It seems Om was thinking along the same line and penned his piece which I hear has a lot of the hedge fund types and Wall Street sharpies questioning eBay the same way in their minds. When … Read more
As GrandCentral’s agency on asymmetrical communications we’ve shared moments of joy, and felt the trials and tribulations one experiences with a high flying, highly successful service, sometimes forgetting, or almost not realizing, the service is really still in Beta because it works so well. This is partially due to one of the great qualities about … Read more
As the time goes by more and more people are privately and publicly questioning what I have labeled “the Great Skype Out” event last week.
“On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update.” “The high number of restarts affected … Read more
In my view these stats about UK business VoIP adoption only mean one thing. Future growth. I say that because BT is taking a lot of steps to make VoIP more a reality throughout the UK by enabling out of market numbers which will be a boon to call centers and small business that wants … Read more
Skype is telling the world what caused the massive Skype Out (of service) last Wednesday and Thursday..While rumors persist that it was a hack job, no way would they admit that in my book. Very few companies ever admit their services or software were hacked, especially when with Skype there wasn’t much to steal yet. … Read more
One of the questions always asked when a new business is launched is “But Does It Scale?” Often times the question is thought to mean “will the service work as we add users” when in reality it really should mean “can the company support the number of users who come online.” Support is more than … Read more
A Yahoo Blogger reports on the saga of yet another displaced SunRocket user who had connectivity hassles that were solved by the PR person, not support. This story, thanks to PR pal Brian Lustig had a happy ending, but after what seems like a week of being jerked around and tugged by Teleblend one has … Read more
The newest OM TV show has our pal interviewing Real Networks’ founder Rob Glaser.
I just received this from the Skype PR agency: Good Morning, I’m pleased to share the most recent information on the Skype outage with you: “Take a deep breath. Skype is back to normal.” “On Monday, we’ll provide a more detailed explanation of what happened. Until then, we’d like to apologize and thank you. Precisely … Read more
