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Squawk Box March 18

by alec on March 19, 2008

A lively and interactive Squawk Box from San Jose California today!

We discussed Lifestream Aggregators — FriendFeed, Twitter, Plaxo Pulse and so on. There were a few people who shared their experiences, good and bad.

We also discussed Broadsoft's new eXtended — a platform play to compete with Ribbit in the web telephony mashup space.

And lastly, we debated whether native applications are really needed on mobile devices. Was all the ballyhoo around Apple's SDK warranted?

Squawk Box March 18 [ 32:53 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Om Malik on the Long Term Impact of Combining VoIP and IM. As he says "Voice will soon become an embedded feature in most applications" — a platform component. You will see voice in games, IM, business processes, web sites, and many many more places.

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Softphones are Platforms

March 11, 2005

While I was at VON I was reminded once again that platform strategy is one of the most misunderstood business models in technology. I dropped by the booth of one of the big name softphone vendors to have a chat and find out what it would cost to license their SDK, which was the primary [...]

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