Category: Social Media
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Facebook event created for ACUTA conference… (and the ongoing challenge Facebook has in moving beyond its college/university roots)
Continue Reading: Facebook event created for ACUTA conference… (and the ongoing challenge Facebook has in moving beyond its college/university roots)Interestingly, there was no event inside of Facebook for the ACUTA annual conference that I referenced in my last post. Continuing my ongoing exploration of Facebook, I thought that perhaps because ACUTA is the “Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education” there might be an “event” already created in Facebook. There wasn’t one, so naturally I created an event notice. If you are going to the ACUTA conference this month and are also a Facebook user please feel free to join that event.
ACUTA?
Creating this event caused two discussion threads in my brain. The first was about ACUTA as an organization and the question of perhaps why there is no mention of ACUTA within a search inside Facebook. While my co-workers involved with education sales have been involved with the organization for some time, I personally had not heard of it prior to being asked about speaking at this conference. From the corporate FAQ (and university FAQ), it seems very obvious that ACUTA comes from the telecom side of the house and is looking now at the larger “communications technology” space. I would think for the folks involved, all of these social networking services will play an increasingly larger role in…
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VoIP Apps for Facebook – Two new ones: "VoIPUser" SIP Presence and "Skype Me"
Continue Reading: VoIP Apps for Facebook – Two new ones: "VoIPUser" SIP Presence and "Skype Me"Although I could not earlier find many Facebook apps that I considered true “VoIP apps” that linked out to the PSTN or larger VoIP world, we are seeing more apps emerging. Two notable new entrants:
1. VoIP User Presence by Dean Elwood
Dean’s a friend who runs VoIPUser.org (and provides the SIP voicemail box for Blue Box comments) and he’s been experimenting with the Facebook API. This is the first of what he says will be a series of Facebook apps. Dean says this one is “SIP meets Presence meets Google Maps” and provides this on the Facebook apps page for a description:
“This application shows within your profile if you have a SIP device currently logged into the VoIP User server and are available to take calls. The application page also shows a Google Maps mashup page showing your current location.”
There is also a thread going on in the VoIPUser.org forums about the application with more info, screenshots, etc. It will definitely be interesting to see what else Dean cooks up.
More feedback on this one once I have a chance to actually use it.
2. Skype Me by Nabil Naghdy
This one does the rather…
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Skype announces "Mashup Contest" to encourage developers to play with Skype’s API
Continue Reading: Skype announces "Mashup Contest" to encourage developers to play with Skype’s APIOne of the things that continues to fascinate me is the "mashup culture" we are in today where the whole "Web 2.0" (ugh! how I dislike the term!) motif is that you can mix and mash output and input from various services to come up with new and interesting integrations. Anybody who has at this point NOT seen some mashup with Google Maps should probably stop reading this post now. (In fact, turn off your computer and just go outside… you obviously haven’t been paying attention, anyway!) The programmableweb site lists now over 2000 mashups. There’s a wiki of Twitter mashups. Mashable.com reports daily on more and more services that are very often new remixes and combinations of existing services. It’s a crazy but intriguing world we’re in right now.
Today Skype joined the fray with their "Mashup Contest" calling on developers to join in building mashups that use the Skype API. The contest will run until September 12th when they are having a "Skype Developer Days" conference in Prague. From their announcement:
Judges will be from across Skype, eBay and Paypal, plus external judges. The winner will be chosen and announced on Sep 12th in Prague…
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Who will build the first VoIP app for Facebook that links outside the Facebook walls?
Continue Reading: Who will build the first VoIP app for Facebook that links outside the Facebook walls?With the recent release of Facebook’s “Platform” for applications (see here for more info and links), my first thought, naturally, was… so what VoIP apps are in there? Given that Facebook is being used as a email/IM/messaging platform by so many, the linkage into voice seems logical. Oddly, when I went to Facebook’s “Application Directory” and searched (using the “Search Apps” box) on either “voip” or “voice” I wound up with no applications! However, there clearly are some voice applications in there. Through some browsing, I discovered these (note that the first links on each line will only work if you are logged into Facebook):
- WalkieTalkie – private voice chat for a Facebook group. If everyone in the group installs it, they can all participate in a group “conference call”.
- Tag – from the same developer as WalkieTalkie, this is for one-to-one voice chat and leaving messages.
- Chatterbox – lets other users leave a voice message on your Facebook profile.
- VoicePlayer from Snapvine – let’s users leave voice comments on your Facebook profile
- Msg-Time – same idea… you can leave voice messages
- Free World Phone from Jaxtr – call-back service that calls users on their existing phones… also includes…
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Ken Camp starts a new series of posts on Jaiku and the new client for Nokia S60 phones
Continue Reading: Ken Camp starts a new series of posts on Jaiku and the new client for Nokia S60 phonesI have not really written about Jaiku here at all… I have been meaning to explore it a bit more, but just haven’t had the time. What limited time I have had lately has been more focused on Twitter, Facebook, Skype and the evolving mashups of all of those.
But Ken Camp has been writing and advocating Jaiku, and is starting a series of posts with his one today: “Unveiling the new Jaiku Client for Nokia – Part 1” Ken is going to talk more about the new client for Nokia S60 phones. But this part of his first post is perhaps more revealing:
First, if you aren’t a Jaiku user today, you need to understand that Jaiku is what I call a lifestream aggregator. When you build your profile, you have complete control over what you wish to share of your lifestream of information. For many, that’s simply their Jaikus. Using this approach, a used can share brief snippets of information – current status, pose a question, leave a thought – for others to see.
Digging more deeply into Jaiku, we find you can also import RSS feeds of all flavors into your lifestream. For me, this means…
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New Skype public chat about Twitter <-> Skype integration
Continue Reading: New Skype public chat about Twitter <-> Skype integrationFor those who read my previous post about the ability to now post to Twitter from within Skype, Antoine “Ants” Bertout from Skype created a new Skype public chat to facilitate discussion around how Skype and Twitter could be integrated. Anyone interested who has Skype 3.x is welcome to join by following the link below:
Skype and Twitter | http://twitter.com/help/api hosted by bertouta.Chat about what’s on your mind. More about public chats.
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Sending messages to Twitter from Skype – and the challenge of knowing where to post some things as worlds collide
Continue Reading: Sending messages to Twitter from Skype – and the challenge of knowing where to post some things as worlds collideSome of you reading this may be interested in the article on my Disruptive Conversations blog about a new service that lets you update Twitter from within Skype.
The article itself is an example of the challenge I’m increasingly finding with some things falling into the “grey area” between my two main blogs. This blog covers telephony, VoIP, etc., while Disruptive Conversations covers the “social media” of blogs, podcasts, etc. The lines are pretty clear in some cases.
But the challenge is that the lines continue to blur…. communication that used to take place by phone is moving increasingly online and very often to “social networking sites” like Facebook, Twitter and friends… which I have primarily been discussing over on DisCon. Yet in the case of this post I just made, the integration was with Skype, a tool I normally discuss over here on Disruptive Telephony. I wound up posting it over there… but I just as easily could have posted it here.
I’ve toyed with cross-posting some articles into both places. It would be trivial to do since I use Windows Live Writer now for all my blogging. The act of cross-posting is as simple as switching the weblog menu to…
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Gokul Blog: Top Ten Most underrated VoIP Contributors
Continue Reading: Gokul Blog: Top Ten Most underrated VoIP Contributors(Continuing my effort to flush my “queue of things I want to blog about”…)
Some time back, I stumbled upon this post “Top Ten: Most underrated VoIP Contributors“. Yeah, okay, so I liked the list because it had my employer on it, and mentioned the work Mitel has done with VOIPSA, which is really the activities that I do. So, yes, it’s nice to be recognized and nice to hear the kind words about Mitel’s contributions. Some of the other people on the list were also interesting as well, so it was good to be introduced to others whom I haven’t read.
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Blogdesk meme … Jon Arnold tags me… so I get to talk about phones, too…
Continue Reading: Blogdesk meme … Jon Arnold tags me… so I get to talk about phones, too…Jon Arnold tagged me. Of course, we really have to blame Luca for starting it and Jeff, phoneboy and others for pushing it along – and Moshe Maeir for adding the phone angle. I don’t usually like to play the meme games… but it’s Friday, it’s lunchtime, I have a horrid cough and generally feel lousy… so I’ll take a moment of distraction to blog my setup. Plus, I get to talk about phones. So here it is (click for larger view), and courtesy of 5 minutes in PowerPoint I’ve even numbered the phones. What you are looking at is two computers with three screens. The screen in the corner of the room is my rather old home desktop PC. My (also older) laptop is then connected to the second monitor in the right foreground. You can see pieces of my podcasting rig, although much of it is hidden by the laptop screen. I write on either computer depending upon what time of day it is and which of the 5 or 6 different blogs I’m writing in.
As to the phones, proving that VoIP teleworking can be secure (unlike what ComputerWorld.au thinks), most of the Mitel phones…
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Pictures of me presenting at ETel… and O’Reilly’s use of social media for photos…
Continue Reading: Pictures of me presenting at ETel… and O’Reilly’s use of social media for photos…When I go to conferences, I usually wind up taking many shots of other people and events, but I naturally almost never wind up with any actual pictures of me. So it was a bit fun to find out that the photographer taking pictures for O’Reilly is posting all the pictures to a Flickr photo set, and that there were a couple of pictures of me included (click on the pictures to go to the Flickr pages and larger photos). I was a bit amused to see that my mouth was wide open in both of them, but then again, I was in the middle of presenting so of course that would be the case.
I just have to say kudos to O’Reilly for doing the “Web 2.0” or “social media” thing of posting all these photos to Flickr… and tagging them all appropriately. Given that they are a company that produces conferences like “Web 2.0”, it rather makes sense that they would walk the talk, but it’s just good to see.
Which of these two photos do you like the best? I think I like the one on the left a bit better. Many other good photos of…
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