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If you ever wondered about my past and what my agency does for clients, take a listen to this podcast on which I was the featured guest.

The buck stops here. I made an error. Over the weekend the new PR team at Skype in Silicon Valley provided me information they had been supplied by the Skype staff about their new deal with a Linux provider. In the body of the note was their copy which I was supplied under embargo until … Read more

British Telecom, Yahoo’s partner in the UK is taking on the VoIP providers at their own game. Here they conveniently pick on Skype. Poor Skype. Everyone’s picking on them this month.

Om’s got it pretty dialed in and sewn up in the post as to why AOL and Google are getting hitched. He’s missing though the enemy (AOL) of my enemy (YAHOO) is my friend, which applies to both Google and AOL. So, while I guess you can toss in Microsoft in that enemy model, MSFT … Read more

When it comes to being Mac friendly with VoIP no one is as forward thinking as the team at GizmoProject. I came across this little known add in for Adium, the all IM utility for the MacIntosh. After you install the Adium GizmoProject add in, you get almost full GizmoProject functionality. Yesterday Om was omming … Read more

Om has turned me on to a new way to blog. It’s browser based and works with Firefox. I’ll be experimenting with Performancing for Firefox over the next few days and will see how well it works.

Mark Evans has a nice recap on how Vonage raised another 250 million this week. Give the company credit. They sure must have one heck of a road show presentation. And 1.2 million customers is nothing too shabby. Obviously they do something right. While I may question their operating style sometimes, and am skeptical about … Read more

When Packet8 won the BellSouth trial VoIP program, they weren’t the Southeastern US’ first choice. Reports I’ve heard indicate that Broadvoice had the deal pretty much sown up, until some internal changes last summer and other machinations caused BellSouth to take a look elsewhere.

If you have a Mac you’ll like the idea of what Jon’s Phone Dialer can do for you with some select VoIP carriers (CallVantage, Vonage) plus IP phones from Cisco and the Xten line of softphones. This latest revision seems a lot smoother. I’ve got it installed and will run it through its paces over … Read more

Ovum’s Julian Hewitt has an analysts’ view on Skype, their acquisition cost to eBay and what can affect the earnout. He also poses a big “if” at the end of the summary. I’d say the jury is still out.