Yesterday was the announcement of Skype for Asterisk – a channel driver for Asterisk that allows Skype users to call into Asterisk PBX’s, and for employees of those business to use Skype to call their customers. With this move, Skype becomes a powerful addition to the Asterisk VAR’s kitbag. What does it mean for employees, businesses, Digium and Skype?
All week long Apple has appeared to be stumbling from one blunder to the next with the iPhone SDK. Their draconian tactics aren’t winning them any friends in the court of public opinion, but we discuss whether it makes any difference at all to Apple’s business.
And the Pew Internet Report on Networked Workers was released yesterday. Connected, Distracted, Ambivalent — that’s how they describe networked workers. We hack away at Pew’s dystopic interpretation of connectivity.
On today’s Calliflower Conference Call: Hudson Barton, Brad Jones, Jim Courtney, Wilhelm Wimmreuter, Jeanette Fisher, William Volk, Phil Wolff, Michael Graves, Randulo, and Sergio Meinardi
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.
