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Skype for iPhone – All I Want From It Is….
Continue Reading: Skype for iPhone – All I Want From It Is….In case you’ve been under a rock, or are just tuning in from a long weekend, Skype is releasing “Skype for the iPhone” tomorrow and will apparently follow that with a Skype for the Blackberry application in May. GigaOm ran with the story last week, CNET came out with an “it’s official” story last night and then seemingly everyone and their brother and sister came out with stories today about it. (Phil had nice pictures over at Skype Journal.) It’s been a big day for Skype – and the formal launch isn’t even until tomorrow. Expect that we’ll see a large number of stories tomorrow when people actually are able to install the Skype for iPhone app and start playing with it. (And yes, I’ll probably write one, too.)What’s fascinating and perhaps incredibly predictable is that almost all of these articles talk about how this brings Skype’s free calling to the iPhone… about how this will make it easier for people to make cheaper calls… how it is integrated in with the iPhone Address Book for easy calling… about how this disrupts voice and calls… about how this will make cheap calls available… about how nice the GUI is……
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Skype to stream live news conference about iPhone app from CTIA – Tuesday
Continue Reading: Skype to stream live news conference about iPhone app from CTIA – TuesdayWith the rumors now being confirmed that Skype is releasing an iPhone app, Skype PR is putting out the word that they will be live-streaming their news conference tomorrow announcing the iPhone app. The details are:http://skypectia2009.stream57.com/
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
3:30pm US Pacific timeYou can be sure I’ll be watching… 😉
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Skype tears down more walls with “Skype For SIP”
Continue Reading: Skype tears down more walls with “Skype For SIP”NOTE: I have a few updates to the post that I am putting at the bottom of the text.
Would you like Skype users to be able to call your business’ phone system? Would you like to connect your phone system to Skype’s network and make use of their cheap calling rates? If you have an IP-PBX or other call server that supports the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), you may now have those options.
For a company that only a bit over a year ago was saying that customers weren’t asking for interconnection, today Skype has done something rather dramatic and lowered their walls a bit more with the announcement of the beta program of “Skype For SIP“. With this announcement from the “Skype For Business” group, companies with SIP-enabled phone systems will be able to receive calls from Skype users – and make calls using Skype’s network at Skype rates. The news release (and blog post announcement) highlights these four aspects:
- Receive and manage inbound calls from Skype users worldwide on SIP-enabled PBX systems; connecting the company Web site to the PBX system via click-to-call
- Place calls with Skype to landlines and mobile phones worldwide from any connected…
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Oprah and Ellen push “Skype-ing” as a verb…
Continue Reading: Oprah and Ellen push “Skype-ing” as a verb…On Ellen Degeneres’ TV show today (Friday, March 20, 2009):
Ellen:(very excitedly) How is this happening? Are you Skype-ing in? What’s happening?
Oprah: Skype-ing in – that’s exactly what I’m doing!I learned of this in a Skype public chat where someone passed along the link to the Huffington Post article: Oprah Invites Ellen To Share O Magazine Cover. Having not seen either of the shows, I had no clue as to the backstory where apparently Ellen has been campaigning to get on the cover of Oprah’s “O” magazine. Oprah was surprising (apparently) Ellen with a call via Skype video to ask her to be on the magazine’s cover.
For me the most interesting part was that first little bit where Oprah and Ellen had the dialogue above about “Skype-ing”.
Now I don’t know if the mention of Skype is related to the sponsorship of Oprah that Skype began last year although that would seem reasonable. If it is, I’d have to say that Skype is getting some great mentions for whatever they are paying. If they aren’t paying, it’s perhaps even more powerful in that Oprah and Ellen are using the tool and mentioning it on their own.
UPDATE:…
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IETF 74 starts next week in San Francisco…
Continue Reading: IETF 74 starts next week in San Francisco…The 74th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) starts Monday morning out in San Francisco. As usual there is a packed agenda with a lot of great discussions going on. This one is particularly interesting for those of us involved in the “Real-time Applications and Infrastructure (RAI)” area – which is all the various working groups related to SIP and other real-time communications protocols – as there are some proposals moving forward to rather fundamentally restructure the ways in which SIP-related work moves through the IETF. I expect there will be many involved conversations going on out there next week.As much as I would like to be there, I won’t be physically out at IETF 74. It’s not my new role at Voxeo keeping me away, but rather this… oh… wee minor little detail that my wife is now five weeks from giving birth to our second child! 🙂 At this stage of things I’m severely limiting my travel – and flights across the country are definitely out.
Instead I’ll be participating remotely, listening to the audio streams and joining in the Jabber chat rooms. Probably writing about some of it over on the “Speaking…
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Of eComm and boots…
Continue Reading: Of eComm and boots…Out an eComm last week, Jon Arnold posted a set of pictures that included this fun one of me (click for larger version):For those not aware… I’ve been wearing “western boots”/”cowboy boots” for years… in fact, I wrote up a fun story a while back about how Twitter and Facebook helped me find cowboy boots in Ottawa.
(And boots purists will note, of course, that the pair pictured here at eComm are not really real western boots in that they don’t have a leather sole. These are in fact my winter western boots that have a rubber sole with a tread. Smooth leather soles don’t work too well in New Hampshire winters with ice and snow 😉 And while eComm was in San Francisco, I did have icy parking lots in NH to be thinking about. I’ll be able to start wearing the other ones real soon now… )
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A view into Skype’s business model…
Continue Reading: A view into Skype’s business model…Ever wonder what Skype’s business plan was really all about? Over on his VoiceOnTheWeb site, Jim Courtney dives into this with: Skype Business Model Revealed at eBay Analyst EventThe post is a deep dive that gives some good insight into Skype. Definitely worth a read.
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The Park Bench Manifesto – text coming soon, video and slides now up
Continue Reading: The Park Bench Manifesto – text coming soon, video and slides now upThis week out at the Emerging Communications Conference in San Francisco, I gave a 10-minute talk called “The Park Bench Manifesto: Why We Want To Kill Off The PSTN”. In the talk, I mentioned that the text would be available here soon… And it will be.
In the meantime though, I have put up both the video and the 54-slide deck over on <a href=”http://blogs.Voxeo.com/ett/”>blogs.voxeo.com/ett/</a>
More soon….. (need to fly home…)
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Want to know why I enjoy working at Voxeo? Listen to this interview (or read the transcript)…
Continue Reading: Want to know why I enjoy working at Voxeo? Listen to this interview (or read the transcript)…To get a sense of why I completely enjoy working for Voxeo, simply listen to this interview (or read the transcript) from Lee Dryburgh over on the eComm blog: (Voxeo CEO) Jonathan Taylor on the Origins and Near-Future of VoxeoDo I need to say anything more? There is an immense amount of fun in being part of a company whose focus is on disrupting existing players and in the end helping people developer better voice applications… and hopefully bringing about better communication.
For those of you going out to eComm next week in San Francisco, I’ll see you there. And if you haven’t registered yet, there’s still time – check out this blog post for a 20% discount code.
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Disruptive Telephony
Dan York on how Voice over IP is rewriting (almost) everything you thought you understood about telephony…
