Month: September 2007
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Facebook group created for ETel conference… please join if you think you might go to ETel!
Continue Reading: Facebook group created for ETel conference… please join if you think you might go to ETel!For those of you using Facebook, we have created a Facebook group for O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony Conference (ETel) coming up in March 2008. Please feel free to join the group if you are planning to go to ETel – or at least thinking about it. We’re hoping to use it to connect people to each other in advance of ETel. We’re not entirely sure exactly how we’ll use it… it’s all part of the grand experiment in social networking. Please join us in that experiment!
Technorati Tags: etel, facebook, conferences
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Heading out to Astricon 2007 next week to talk on VoIP security…
Continue Reading: Heading out to Astricon 2007 next week to talk on VoIP security…Well, I just confirmed my travel schedule – I’m going to go have a bit of fun out at AstriCon 2007. AstriCon, for those who aren’t aware, is pretty much the premiere event for Asterisk developers. I’m scheduled to speak on Thursday about (surprise!) VoIP security. My talk is an “industry perspective” in my capacity as a board member of the VOIP Security Alliance and won’t be specifically Asterisk-focused, although I will include a few pieces about what you need to think about with Asterisk and the holes that Asterisk still needs to fill (like, oh, SRTP, which I know is coming). I know Mark Spencer and a good bit of the Digium crowd, so it will be fun to hang out with them (especially given my new independent status).
If any of you reading will be out there, please do feel free to drop me a line so that we can connect.
P.S. After AstriCon, I’ll be heading over to the Podcast and New Media Expo in Ontario, CA. If any of you will be there, please do drop a note as well.
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Heading up to Ottawa tomorrow…
Continue Reading: Heading up to Ottawa tomorrow…I’m Ottawa-bound early tomorrow morning for two days of closing off my activities with Mitel. Heading back to Vermont on Thursday. If anyone reading this wants to connect with me in Ottawa, please do drop an email, contact me on Skype (“danyork”) or leave a comment here. Will be staying out in the Kanata area.
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Skype Mashup Contest: And the European winner is……
Continue Reading: Skype Mashup Contest: And the European winner is……The first result of the Skype Mashup contest was announced yesterday at the Skype developer event in Prague, and the winner is….
Yes… a fax application! As Jim Courtney writes over on Skype Journal (he was also one of the judges):
The PamConsult team created PamFax to solve the problem of providing a very simple process (especially relative to the somewhat cumbersome WinFax) of using the Internet to easily fax an MS Office document anywhere worldwide. The primary Skype feature here has nothing to do with voice; they used the Skype Extras publishing platform not only to install the application but also as a transaction processor for collecting revenues for the service using Skype credits. Skype Chat is used to send notifications re a fax’s delivery. In addition they developed a web-based portal to manage and archive your use of the service. The application can be launched from the Skype Extras menu or from within MS Excel or MS Word. A link to Google Maps will also show roughly where the fax is being sent (to within an Area Code).
The interesting aspect to me is how it uses Skype’s micro-payment infrastructure. No need for credit cards or…
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FWD rolls out a "Voicemail" Facebook app… with the promise of calls to the *external* FWD client going to FB voicemail soon (i.e. FB becomes voicemail for SIP connections)
Continue Reading: FWD rolls out a "Voicemail" Facebook app… with the promise of calls to the *external* FWD client going to FB voicemail soon (i.e. FB becomes voicemail for SIP connections)Another new “voice” application for Facebook come out today, this one from the 12-year-old FWD (the service formerly known as “Free World Dialup” and backed by Jeff Pulver, who recently teamed with Daniel Berninger to relaunch FWD – read Daniel’s perspective here and also Jeff’s post about FWD’s beta of a tunneling service )
This first Facebook app, called simply “Voicemail“, was announced to members of the FWD group inside of Facebook with a message from Daniel Berninger providing the URL and stating this:
We are particularly interested in novel uses enabled by the several differences with traditional telephone voicemail.
1) CD quality audio
2) Messages public or private
3) Ability to re-record message without sending
4) Sent messages remain accessible
A direct integration with FWD will be available shortly allow you to pickup and leave Facebook voicemail via FWD.My initial response was admittedly a bit of a yawn. Back in June, I had written about the existence of several Facebook apps that allowed FB users to leave each other voicemail messages. The last sentence, though, was enough to intrigue me:
…A direct integration with FWD will be available shortly allow you to pickup and leave Facebook voicemail via FWD.
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Thoughts on some of the roles that I could fill… (and slowly eroding my resistance to going the consulting route)
Continue Reading: Thoughts on some of the roles that I could fill… (and slowly eroding my resistance to going the consulting route)One of the most common reactions to my note last week about my impending employment change (outside of the truly amazing things people have said) has been some variation on the question – "so what is it you want to do?" or "what kind of roles are you looking for?"
Fair questions. And a bit challenging given that I have a diverse range of interests and abilities. But since I’m trying out this experiment in being very public about my employment search, I’ll list some examples of the type of roles I’m ideally seeking – along with the caveat that all of them are interesting and so a role that involved several of them might be even more interesting. So here are some thoughts:
- Emerging Technology Analyst – A good amount of the work I did for Mitel was what I talked about in my note last week. Standing up in the "crow’s nest", staring out at the horizons to identify opportunities and threats – and then translating that into internal communication within the company about what it might mean to the business. What’s the opportunity with social networks? Facebook? What’s the opportunity or threat with Skype? Asterisk? competitors? partners? …
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Skype Journal: "The Dawn of the Mashup World"
Continue Reading: Skype Journal: "The Dawn of the Mashup World"For a couple of months now, a post has been swirling around in my brain that I was tentatively titling “The Dawn of the Mashup Culture” in which I wanted to talk about “mashups” and why they are so incredibly important. Unfortunately I just haven’t had the time to put all those thoughts into the written word.
Well, in the meantime, Jim Courtney went off and wrote something very close to what I was intending to do: “The Dawn of the Mashup World – Part 1: Challenges, Why and Expectations” followed by “Part 1a: What is a Mashup?“
Read them. (And the follow-on posts that Jim indicates he’s writing.)
Mashups are fundamentally changing the way we can use and control services. It’s the remix culture.
You need to understand it… because if you don’t, your products and services will be left behind.
Open APIs win. Mashups win.
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O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony (ETel) 2008 Conference – I’m on the Program Committee and we’re looking for submissions (due by September 17th)
Continue Reading: O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony (ETel) 2008 Conference – I’m on the Program Committee and we’re looking for submissions (due by September 17th)Prior to getting distracted last week by employment issues I was intending to post here about the upcoming ETel 2008 conference on March 3-4, 2008, down in San Diego, CA. For two years in a row, ETel has been my favorite conference to attend, primarily because it’s all about the wacky stuff people are doing on the edge of telephony. Unlike VoiceCon, VON and ITEXPO, it’s not a trade show. There’s no real exhibit hall (or hasn’t been)… it’s all about the content. And there have been been some great sessions showcasing projects and products people are doing that really push the edge of what we are calling “telephony” today.
Two reasons to post about it. First, I’m on the ETel 2008 Program Committee along with a number of others who may be familiar to people in this space. (Note to self: I’ll need to update that bio in two weeks.)
Second, and the main reason I wanted to post – the ETel 2008 Call for Participation is open and we’re looking for submissions!
PROPOSALS ARE DUE SEPTEMBER 17th
As the page says… are you a:
- Technologist, strategist, CTO, CIO changing the world with your ideas?
- Technology evangelist, scout, entrepreneur…
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Great overview of SIP security now posted on Blue Box site…
Continue Reading: Great overview of SIP security now posted on Blue Box site…Over on Blue Box, I uploaded on Friday what I consider one of the best overviews about SIP security that we’ve done: Blue Box Special Edition #20. I recorded the interview out at VoiceCon San Francisco in August and it’s with Cullen Jennings who is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems, but more relevant to SIP is one of the Area Directors for the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure (RAI) area within the IETF. Basically all of the proposals for RFCs relating to SIP roll up under the RAI area. Cullen’s also quite interested in and knowledgeable about security and in fact several of the security-related RFCs related to SIP include Cullen as one of the authors (as do a number of the current proposed Internet-Drafts).
So he knows his stuff… and being a frequent presenter, he’s also good at distilling complex things down into more simple descriptions, so it was an enjoyable interview that I think you will also find quite educational. If you’re working with SIP, or considering it, I’d highly recommend you listen to the show.
Technorati tags: SIP, SIP security, VoIP, VoIP security, security, cullen jennings, dan york
