You have to laugh at the ends that corporations are willing to go to in order to artificially shape people’s behaviour. Case in point — the recent conversation that has been going on surrounding Aircell’s decision to ban VoIP calls from airplane seats. For those not in the know, Aircell is the company that delivers internet to the passenger seat on American Airlines. “Out of consideration for other passengers“, they’ve chosen not to allow VoIP conversations. Umm? What about Airfone? Been around for years!
Anyway, Andy Abramson did successfully have a call from his seat yesterday, using the new Phweet service. How? Well, Phweet uses a flash based client. It’s not Skype, and clearly Aircell isn’t sniffing for whatever protocol Phweet’s client uses.
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Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make 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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Actually, Joanna Stern of Laptop Magazine (laptopmag.com) was on the plane. I was in my hotel room in San Francisco, but came up with the idea of using Flash Audio via Phweet.