Break out the champagne! It’s official. The iotum / Phonegnome partnership has been announced, and as of today, Phonegnome users can become iotum subscribers as well. Phonegnome is our first commercial deployment, and that’s a huge step for any startup. Woo hoo!
What’s particularly exciting is the common vision that we share. I call it Voice 2.0, and it’s all about the separation of directory, access, and applications. It means that applications players can build products that are agnostic of network. And customers can buy access separately from applications. In this specific instance, with Phonegnome you are buying access from the incumbent, long distance from a third party, applications from another third party (including iotum), and directory from the incumbent. Voice 2.0 is real, and you can buy Voice 2.0 products today!
And lastly, thank you to David Beckemeyer and the Televolution team. Working with you guys was a pleasure. Here’s a virtual glass raised to our mutual success!
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.
