I’m on the road this week for a few days working away on a non VoIP project and other stuff. That said, there were two very interesting developments in the blogosphere. Bruce Stewart at O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony takes a well deserved poke at Skype for the Mac and proclaims client SightSpeed better (but we knew … Read more
It seems that the fire I lit about video blogging as Dina Kaplan continues to egg Alec Saunders on, while also playing to my good side.
Fresno is going WiFi and the response according to this news report has been very positive. Like most communities that add WiFi they end up seeing an upsurge in people getting out of their houses and working in coffee shops, bars and restaurants. Starbucks, which helped set this trend has to be concerned. The coffee … Read more
Fresno is going WiFi and the response according to this news report has been very positive. Like most communities that add WiFi they end up seeing an upsurge in people getting out of their houses and working in coffee shops, bars and restaurants. Starbucks, which helped set this trend has to be concerned. The coffee … Read more
It looks like I started something (again). Jeff Pulver, Dina Kaplan and Paul Kapustka all have something more to say now about my video blog exploits….do you think we’re all making a point?
It seems a cross blog discussion is taking place since I posted the video blog two days ago. Now it seems Alec and Mathew are bantering about the pros and cons. Here’s my response in video and another earlier in the day pre-shave time by text.
Over the last week I’ve seen an increase in delayed messages from Skype users. I’ve also become the victim of chat spam and conference call spam where all of a sudden someone or a group of someone’s is bringing me into a totally useless chat session about nothing. The delayed messages, some sent by clients … Read more
Alec Saunders explains what he didn’t blog, and why I did. I took up Dina Kaplan’s challenge after explaining a lot of reasons why Video isn’t for just everyone. Face it. I’ve been on TV before and the concept of production value is still important to me, unless the audience doesn’t care. Dina’s comapny Blip.TV … Read more
Some ISP’s are blocking Port 69 and a few other ports making it hard for some VoIP users at times. A company called BoundIP has come up with some port hopping software that just makes it easier to keep talking and get around the blocks.
At VON last Tuesday for Jeff Pulver’s Birthday, and the tenth anniversary of VON I went out on a limb and suggested everyone wear Hawaiian Shirts. Jeff reported that he counted over 150 shirts. That’s pretty good, plus of course PhoneBoy and a few others who sent in picture from afar garbbed in a similar … Read more
