My Astricon Googlewave ibook skype demo

Here’s a re-do of my Googlewave based demo I did at astricon 2009.

It uses technologies from:

wave.google.com

phonefromhere.com

voice.ibook.com

digium.com

skype.com

and the voice of Randulo from VUC.me

The HD bandwagon

I noticed a very pragmatic attitude, everyone needed to know immediately
what the business case was – no Web 2.0 “lets build it, scoop up a million users, then worry about income” here, these guys are not interested in free or freemium !

The. best. job. ever. – build Skype 2.0 in a year.

What a brilliant opportunity for the engineers who get to work on this! It has everything – VoIP, hard deadlines, massive users, adequate resources, well defined requirements, most (but not all) of the necessary components already exist.

The end of the phone number is in sight

We’ve been without our phone numbers for a month. How have we managed?

The post-telecom era – still undefined but less fuzzy.

Ecomm’s goal was to define the post-telecom era. One possible future is that content for the crowd in the cloud will print money for all of us! Also we can all now be our own GSM operator (local laws permitting).

The importance of being available – (tech stuff)

Westhawk Ltd had a contract to implement a high availability database backed SIP service – what did we use – and why?

The importance of being available

To lose one server, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness. (as Lady Lady Bracknell didn’t say in ‘The importance of being Earnest” ) – how to build a high availability telephony service using open source components.

The way to an exit.

This is the second part of my notes on Essential Mediatech 2008.

The whole crowd had basically one strategy for dealing with 2009 – try and survive it – in the hope (rather than expectation) that 2010 will be better.

Indeed the only people who still seemed cheerful by the end of the day were…

The top 100 mediatech companies 2008

I was at Essential Mediatech today,

There was a lot going on, lots of interesting people and (at least at the beginning of the day) a surprisingly bullish attitude. To give you a feel for the crowd, there were almost no t-shirts, lots of suits, a few ties and quite a few cufflinks.

The new rock and roll. Which is it – Telephony 2.0 or Web 2.0?

Quick summary: Telephony 2.0 is about money – Web 2.0 is about users. Rock and Roll was about both in huge quantities.