Friday, September 9, 2005

New VoIP Weblog

by alec on September 9, 2005

New VoIP Weblog: http://www.eyeonvoip.com/voip. Great URL!

Microsoft to Open MSN APIs

by alec on September 9, 2005

Just caught this on News.com: Microsoft Web Platform Under Construction. Also Microsoft Web Plan Takes Aim at Google.

At the PDC, Microsoft will unveil MSN APIs for MSN Search, portions of MSN Messenger, and Microsoft Virtual Earth. Seems they are taking notice of Google and Yahoo’s Web 2.0 efforts to turn the Internet into a platform after all.

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Swedish Erotica?

September 9, 2005

Rich Tehrani muses that Skype Voice Services might be ideal for the adult entertainment industry. Adult phone services apparently have a notoriously difficult time keeping a merchant credit card account. Skype as a micro-payment vehicle might solve that problem.

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Skype Micropayment

September 9, 2005

Aswath also points out that the feature set Skype is implementing looks suspiciously like Pulver’s FWD features from a few years ago. Two points: Skype has already implemented a micropayment system. When you buy Skype credit, and you can spend it on minutes, DIDs, voicemail, or downloadable goodies to go with your Skype client. With this announcement, they are just [...]

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Interruptions cost $588B

September 9, 2005

So says this article in Red Herring. Unnecessary interruptions from sources such as instant messaging, spam email, personal phone calls, and idle web surfing cost businesses in the United States up to $588 billion per year, or 28 percent of a knowledge worker’s day, according to a study released Thursday. Jonathan Spira, the analyst quoted [...]

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Financial Times Article on VoIP

September 9, 2005

There’s a comprehensive write-up in this morning’s Financial Times on the state of the VoIP industry in Europe and North America. Titled Why VoIP Telephony is Quickly Coming of Age, it has some great analyst quotes, numbers, and a few industry people speaking on topics ranging from Voice on IM competing with the PSTN, to [...]

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