I dropped by Om Malik‘s office at Business 2.0 yesterday, and got a pleasant surprise. With a big grin on his face, he handed me a copy of the March issue, and said "Congratulations". This issue highlights "The Next Net 25" — 25 companies that are reinventing the web. There, on page 94, iotum is named as one of the five companies that Business 2.0 believes is reinventing the phone.
Congratulations to Skype, SIPphone, Vivox, and Fonality who were also named.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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My issue of Business2.0 arrived yesterday, I just finished reading and was about to post a congratulations to you and Howard and the team. You are an bleeding edge user, but the problems Iotum helps solve are starting to affect mainstream users. Kristin was talking how it would be nice to be able to route her electronic messages like her staff does for her with phone calls.
Keep up the visionary work!
Thanks David! You've reminded of something I forgot to point out and that is that there's a small error in the magazine. We're not capable of routing email, and not intending to either.
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