My Astricon Googlewave ibook skype demo
Add comment October 24, 2009
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 !
Continue Reading 2 comments September 23, 2009
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.
Continue Reading 7 comments August 2, 2009
The end of the phone number is in sight
We’ve been without our phone numbers for a month. How have we managed?
Continue Reading 3 comments April 24, 2009
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).
Continue Reading 3 comments March 8, 2009
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?
Continue Reading 1 comment January 15, 2009
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.
Continue Reading Add comment December 24, 2008
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…
Continue Reading Add comment November 14, 2008
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.
Continue Reading 3 comments November 12, 2008
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.
Continue Reading Add comment November 8, 2008