Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Digium gets another new VP

by alec on May 8, 2007

Executive appointments aren't usually very newsworthy items.  That's the reason you frequently see them as paid advertising items in the print paper, rather than publised as news items.  Yesterday, however, newly minted Digium CEO Danny Windham rounded out his exec team with a new VP of Engineering, David Deaton. A former Adtran colleague of Windham's, Deaton has the chops and experience to really take Digium to the next level.   Bringing professional engineering management on board is an enormous step in the transformation of Digium, and one which seems to have been welcomed both by Digium founder Mark Spenser, and the larger Asterisk community. 

  • Mark Spenser: "With this new leadership team in place, Digium is on its way to making our vision — a world based upon open communications — a reality."
  • Jeremy McNamara: "Now that Mark Spencer has surrounded himself with a truly capable executive management team, l am confident that Digium Hardware and Asterisk will continue to make drastic improvements in the coming months."

And if you haven't read it yet, go check out Rich Tehrani's account of his recent visit to Hunstville.  It's a great read with some wonderful pictures. 

 

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Sightspeed: the Killer App of choice

by alec on May 8, 2007

Sightspeed is really cooking with gas.  Yesterday, they received Editors Choice from Killer App magazine.  Another step on their march to global domination of the desktop video market!  You could read the article, but perhaps the best way to explain, and to show off their product, is to jump on over to Sightspeed, and get the latest video update from CEO Peter Csathy.

Nice job, guys!

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What IS a mobile social network?

May 8, 2007

In Mobile social networks, don’t go it alone Katie Fehrenbacher writes: The web-based social network boom and the rising use of cell phones for non-voice functions, makes the trendy ‘mobile social network’ phenomenon an obvious area for investment. But the reality is that it’s difficult to base a business off of just turning an unknown [...]

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