December 2006

Merry Christmas from Digium

December 22, 2006

I just received a call from Digium VP Bill Miller to let me know that the latest AsteriskNow beta is up.  In addition, there have been wholesale changes to both Asterisk.org, and AsteriskNow.org.  I’m downloading the image now, but won’t be able to install it until tomorrow sometime. Bill mentioned that some people might be [...]

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Mobility and the "New Presence"

December 21, 2006

I have a running gag going with a close friend of mine (I’ll call him Wesley, after his favorite Star Trek character) who works for Research In Motion.  Scrupulously polite, my friend’s Blackberry voice mail message says “Hi, you’ve reached Wesley’s Blackberry voicemail.  Unfortunately, I’m either away from my Blackberry or can’t take your call right now, so please [...]

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According to Feedburner, the holiday started yesterday

December 21, 2006

That’s right.  On Monday and Tuesday of this week, the usual 1100 or so subscribers read the feed for this site.  Yesterday it fell to a paltry 224. Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, a Joyous Kwanzaa… Seasons greetings to you all.

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Craigsnumber

December 20, 2006

Craigsnumber is a new service for people who need to give out temporary phone numbers.  Their promise is pretty simple: “Listing online? Protect your privacy.”  Nice marketing guys! It’s pretty simple.  When you need a temporary number for a day, a week, or a month, visit their site.  They’ll issue you a number, plus extension [...]

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Spammers outgun me 275 to 1

December 20, 2006

I’ve crossed a milestone of sorts.  Yesterday afternoon, I noticed that Akismet was reporting 99,500 (approximately) spam comments trapped since I installed it on May 18th of this year.  And this morning that number stands at 100,508. Sometime during the night we crossed the 100K threshhold. That’s an average of 465 spam comments per day, since installing [...]

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"New Presence" and the Voice 2.0 Manifesto

December 19, 2006

Presence will drive a fundamental change in the way that communications networks are used today. Today, callers have no way of knowing whether the party being called is available, or busy, or would consider the call an intrusion. The Voice 2.0 Manifesto, October 2005 Today, we live in two extremes.  It’s not uncommon for some [...]

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Unifying presence on the desktop

December 18, 2006

Jean-Louis Seguineau, and Mike Gotta have a little riff going on topic of aggregating presence on the desktop.  What they’re talking about is the idea of a broker which would aggregate presence from all the clouds in which the user is a participant, presenting applications with a unified API to use this aggregated presence information. Putting [...]

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JAJAH moves to ad-funded model; Announces European partnerships

December 17, 2006

What do Google and MySpace have in common?  They’re both exemplars of the new media.  Having built hot online properties, they’re now turning to cross-over opportunities on television, radio and in print, in order to expand their advertising businesses.  The market thinks they’re hot too, awarding them a much higher multiple than traditional media outlets. [...]

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Jajah and Apple?

December 17, 2006

The Jajah team certainly seems to be on a roll.  Co-founder Daniel Mattes has been recently quoted saying that they’re in “intense negotiations” with Apple over the use of the Jajah VoIP suite on the upcoming iPhone.  If true, that would be a major coup, driving Jajah into brand new territory.  According to folks in [...]

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Truphone or GizmoVoip + iotum. A killer combo.

December 17, 2006

I’m pretty impressed with Truphone, and with it’s American competitor, GizmoVoip.  Both rely on the new SIP subsystem that comes in the Nokia N80i, and both provide a very high quality, and very functional WiFi VoIP capability on this dual mode handset. And in particular, I’m happiest with the combination of these and iotum.  Truphone [...]

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