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I’ve decided it’s time for a blog about things other than VoIP! That’s why I’ve created Random Thoughts From An Idle Mind. Check it out!

Pal and client Alec Saunders has been experimenting with video lately. I have too and being that SightSpeed is a client, have been holding off picking and choosing. That and being on the Mac I haven’t Skype-vided yet. Seems he has and here’s his report.

A few of us were chatting at VON and realized that the new version of Timbuktu that works with Skype means you can move whole folders. As Darknets proliferate who says wholesale file-sharing is dead.

Om predicts that Yahoo’s Skype Killer will be unleashed next week. My sources at Yahoo are promising some mid-week update to all of us who were briefed on the service back in 2005…. Being that my pick for soon to be Senior VP at Yahoo, Brad Garlinghouse, returns from a week of skiing that something … Read more

Mark Sullivan at LightReading has an interesting spin on the possible grab of Qwest by Verizon. When you think about it, who else other than Sprint or AllTel are in a position to even consider such a thing. In my mind this deal gets done if the bankers let Verizon keep their current credit rating … Read more

A long time ago I mentioned that Microsoft’s XBOXLive was using VoIP over Level3, via the data side. It seems VoIP enhanced gaming is growing and Blogger panel member Christine Herron has the low down…

Paul Kapustka ponders just how Real Microsoft’s new Live Video offering is. He laments that the test video of two Microsoftees at the San Jose Convention Center isn’t a real test. Compare that to client SightSpeed whose President Scott Lomond demonstrated the same thing but with someone in Chicago at the same VON as part … Read more

David Beckemeyer, client and friend, showed me the latest big idea he has with PhoneGnome and Stuart beat me to the blog. Using his Nokia N70 David has created an XML application that grabs his PhoneGnome phone directory that works with their version of Click2Call and lets you make a call from your cell phone … Read more

eBay executives have hit the road to sell the dream to Wall Street. This is how you shore up belief in the company, by telling analysts on what is called the sell side that eBay knows what they are doing and has a handle on things. Skype Journal editor, Phil Wolff has some excellent commentary.

CompUSA has gone direct and wants to offer small businesses VoIP via a partnership with BandWidth.com, one of Level3’s biggest resellers. What does this mean? Well basically VONAGE and AT&T spent oodles of dollars in what is called bounties and slotting allowances, MAP funds and more to build the category and make people aware that … Read more