VON Canada

VON Canada: Wrap

by alec on April 6, 2006

VON Canada finished up for me yesterday.  Immediately following the show, the iotum contingent and I high-tailed it back to Ottawa.  This morning I jumped on a plane and travelled to Boston.  Busy week!

Highlights of the last day for me:

The Deep Impact session, which explored the intersection of VoIM, Portals, and the PSTN.  We had a large group of excellent speakers, and explored a number of different topics.  For me, discussion panels are the highlight of the show.  I’d rather have a bunch of smart people debate a topic, than a group of vendors deliver a pitch.

Show Me The Money, moderated by my partner Howard Thaw, was also excellent.  Three VC’s and an accountant from Deloitte’s explaining their views on business, and raising money.  JL Albright’s Rick Segal was one of the panelists, which always makes for an entertaining show. 

Money Making Apps was an opportunity for me to show iotum in action.  Afterward, the conversation moved to a discussion, in many ways, of what Skype did right. 

Biggest takeaway: the shift to applications is finally happening.  Applications was the buzzword on everyone’s lips.  About time!

Jon Arnold’s Day 3 thoughts, and podcast are located here

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VON Canada: Others Impressions

by alec on April 4, 2006

Jon Arnold’s becoming a positive whiz with his Nokia N90.  I watched him whipping around the show yesterday, enthusiastically snapping photos and taking videos.  This morning he had posted them to his web site.  He shot a few minutes of video from the beginning of my talk, which will give a good flavour for the big numbers that are at the beginning.

Jeff Pulver, after staying up for 24 hours, and flying from Israel to Toronto, was a lucid participant on the bloggers panel yesterday as well, and posted this from the show.  He’s got a good set of links to other folks.

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Motel Hell? Nope. It’s a Sheraton!

April 2, 2006

I’ve been in the hotel room for all of 10 minutes now, and my eyes are already burning.  We’re staying at the Sheraton Centre on Queen Street West, which is one of the nicer hotels in Toronto, but they’ve stuck us in a smoking room.  Although we reserved a non-smoking room, when we arrived we [...]

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VON Canada

April 2, 2006

I’m heading to VON Canada this afternoon with Howard.  The next three days will be filled with meetings, sessions, and reconnecting with colleagues, old friends, and potential business partners.  Somehow I’ve managed to commit to sitting on or hosting 4 panels, and delivering one of Jeff’s industry insight talks.  Not surprisingly, the talk I plan [...]

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The Transition to Voice 2.0

March 27, 2006

Techdirt wrote this morning that the VoIP space is getting more crowded with Internet era bubble models.  This was in response to an AP story about Jajah and Lycos titled New Ways to Call Over the Internet Debut.   Meanwhile, on Friday TechWeb News published Gartner Sees Rocky Road Ahead For Telecoms.  Elroy Jopling, the Gartner [...]

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VON Canada Discounts Available

March 22, 2006

Interested in going to VON Canada?  The good folks at VON Canada have agreed to provide a discount to readers of this fine blog…  Read more about it below: Voice On the Net Canada will explore all aspects of the Canadian IP Communications Market, including wireless, VOBB and ILEC offerings, TV over IP, 3G and [...]

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Linking Iotum and Skype

April 19, 2005

I’ve been tossing around an idea for how to link Iotum’s product with Skype.  It’s been getting some good feedback here at the show.  In fact, Mark Evans just blogged it, and people are already asking about availability.

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Shift Happens: VNO’s and Dumb Pipes

April 19, 2005

I’m sitting in Pulver’s opening speech at VON Canada. It’s called "Shift Happens". The whole theme is that the IP shift is happening. One of the big themes is that end-to-end IP is finally happening. All we need is DUMB PIPES, and virtual network operators that ride on top of these pipes. Jeff makes a [...]

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