Skype Journal Launches

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Stuart of Unbound Spiral: has announced that Skype Journal has Launched. I wish him all the luck and success in the world. This is a perfect example of niche marketing. Find a community and aggregate content for them. Skype is a community with an audience that is very mixed. The early adopters will be all … Read more

How Serious Are The Problems?

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In ninth grade World History, our teacher, Royal Black, yup, that was his name, no jive, was the first person I recall ever using the phrase “history always repeats,” so I’m not surprised at Om’s post today about the growing pains effecting VoIP. When I got into the dot.com world outages were nothing uncommon. Heck, … Read more

WiMaxWatch Launched

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I think in a few years WiMax will be more in the news, which is why I’m launching WiMaxWatch now. To be ahead of the curve. While other sites are out there, I want to bring the same approach towards covering WiMax that I have done with VoIP.

“VON Blur” Starts Today

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The Jeff Pulver Blog: Spring 2005 “VON Blur” Starts Today is an understatement. For the past three or four weeks I’ve been in show mode. That means little time to prospect for new business, and lots of time on the go.  Between Internet Telephony and now VON, my work has been non stop, in addition to … Read more

IBD On VON

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Investor’s Business Daily is another media outlet ringing in with advance coverage of VON. I think this year’s spring VON will be very much an announcement driven show, with some insight from AOL, VONAGE and the FCC being the hot sessions. Those and of course my Blogger Panel on Wednesday !

On Outages

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Before yesterday’s post, on Friday Om got Vonage to say it was a software glitch. Last summer Om referred to a Vonage outage where the company cited that Global Crossing was the culprit. I recall getting the same comment from Vonage PR and posting on it too. Outages are nothing new but it’s funny to … Read more

Yesterday Vonage, Today Lingo…Who’s Next?

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Yesterday Vonage had an outage but today it seems Lingo, the VoIP service from Primus is having it’s own bad day, making the Vonage outage seem slight in comparison. A review of a thread on DSL Reports shows many unhappy customers.

While I’m not opposed to the idea it may be a coincidence, I notice that many times the outages that seem to occur with one carrier almost identically occurs the next day or so with another carrier. That makes me wonder if there is anything inside their NOC’s (i.e. open source software, commercial software) that is similar, and when that piece of software is updated if the everyone is affected as they update…

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Vonage Down But Not Out

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LightReading reports on a Vonage outing on Friday. This is one their customers worst fears. The network went down and so did the Vonage web site. My guess is they are having scaling issues as well as a NOC related problem. Coming the week before VON is the wrong time for it to happen, as … Read more