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Pal James Enck took a nasty spill in London and seem out of action for a while. Get well my friend..May I suggest audio blogging when you’re ready?

Ted Shelton at IP Inferno is developing a very cool blog aggregation tool called the Personal Bee. He also found a kick ass posting from John Battelle and an interview done with Vin Cerf on the subject of Net Neutrality. It’s marked a must read and it is. The key point is Cerf’s clear eyed … Read more

For those of you who saw Yahoo Senior VP Brad Garlinghouse’s Voice 2.0 talk at VON last year, or who have read Alec Saunders Voice 2.0 Manifesto, this Phone Call 2.0 blog post will sound somewhat familiar. In my view we are in the 2.0 world, but with companies largely being led by 1.0 type … Read more

TechDirt is pointing to Jeff Pulver about disaster relief voice mail networks being built out should another Katrina strike. What’s amazing to me, is as Jeff points out, that the telcos and the cable MSOs are opposed to the idea of making sure no phone goes unanswered by giving victims a free virtual voicemail number. … Read more

I had a chance to visit with EarthLink’s VP Steve Howe last week and check out the one month blitz San Francisco retail location. Playing with EarthLink’s Line Powered VOIP and going through their web portal conjured up feelings of AOL Total Talk and AT&T’s CallVantage but with a more true to SIP based calling … Read more

I had a chance to visit with EarthLink’s VP Steve Howe last week and check out the one month blitz San Francisco retail location.Playing with EarthLink’s Line Powered VOIP and going through their web portal conjured up feelings of AOL Total Talk and AT&T’s CallVantage but with a more true to SIP based calling service, … Read more

I consider David Beckemeyer, not only a friend, client, but truly a genius at making technology approachable for the common man. As background, it was Beckemeyer and his crew that made Earthlink the first national Internet Service Provider that made it easy for people, not geeks, to get on the Internet. AOL of course made … Read more

Let me draw your attention please to the AT&T exhibit at the New York World’s Fair..Oh…That was 42 years ago but now, finally, video telephony is having its day as yes its day is here due to broadband, better cameras and faster computers at lower prices. I couldn’t be more pleased to see how the … Read more

Let me draw your attention please to the AT&T exhibit at the New York World’s Fair..Oh…That was 42 years ago but now, finally, video telephony is having its day as yes its day is here due to broadband, better cameras and faster computers at lower prices. I couldn’t be more pleased to see how the … Read more

Without question, we all know the telcos of the last century are a dying bread. Not so much because of mergers, but because they are asleep at the switch and while they know the cable guys are out there, they continue to be in denial of what the cable industry has done and will do … Read more