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Streaming video wirelessly changes the game

March 18, 2008

I had a remarkable day yesterday, defined in part by video.  At Pulver's Social Media breakfast, there were Nokia N95's in evidence everywhere and people streaming everywhere.  They were streaming others streaming others talking on Qik.  At one point I spotted a crowd of 7 or 8 people, all streaming video, standing around one speaker. [...]

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Squawk Box Preview – March 6

March 6, 2008

Today we have a special guest – Jeff Pulver.  Jeff's going to be on the show to give us a preview of what's coming at VON.X, the show previously known as Spring VON.  We'll talk a little about what's in store for voice and video on the net, wireless, and of course my favorite track [...]

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Invitation to the Pulver un-Conference agenda bash

January 29, 2008

Interested in un-conferences? Telephony?  At Spring VON we'll be doing another of these events.  Tomorrow at 10 AM, Pulvermedia is hosting an "Agenda Bash" with Tom Howe, myself, Carl Ford and Brough Turner.  If you'd like to participate, then please visit this webinar page to join us! And if you don't know what an un-conference [...]

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Ooma debate

October 30, 2007

One of the more interesting unconference sessions today was the OOMA conversation.  Dennis Peng, product manager at OOMA, took part in a conversation with Tom Howe, moderated by Jon Arnold, about Ooma.  Dennis positioned OOMA as allowing you "own your residential telephone service".  It costs $399 for the life of the product, and includes the basic three features [...]

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Pulver Keynote

October 30, 2007

I just exited the Pulver keynote, and heard both Tom Evslin and Jeff Pulver extolling the virtues of social communications. Evslin sees the arrival of social networks as the next phase of all communications.  As he sees it, social networks are the opt-in self administered directories we've all been talking about for a very long [...]

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Day 1 VON

October 30, 2007

It's day 1 of VON.  Like many, I'm looking forward to Jeff's comments this morning, and then I'll be heading over to the Innovators Track / Unconference for most of the day.  If you're looking for me, that's where me and my laptop will be parked. 

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Harvesting Spring's reward

October 15, 2007

We had a light frost over the weekend, which forced me to gather in the remainder of hot peppers from the garden.  It's been an odd season, with the late heat in September allowing some of the slowest peppers to ripen finally.  So we have sweet hungarian banana peppers, fiery habaneros, spicy sweet ripened jalapenos, [...]

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Welcome to the Innovators Track at VON!

October 5, 2007

I've been bugging the Pulver team for a couple of years now to run a track at VON that's oriented around the latest technologies — what's new, the up and coming technologies, the early stage companies… all the cool stuff that turns my crank.  Well, my wishes have been answered.  Check out the new innovators [...]

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Bigger and Noisier than ever? VON San Jose

March 30, 2007

You know how it is when you have the feeling you missed something important?  Judging from the volume of noise generated by the VON show last week in San Jose, the bloggers writing about it, the wine dinners, the meetings, the news, and the fact that I am still now digging out from under all [...]

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A place for VON and a place for ETel

March 20, 2007

I'll preface this by noting that I am not at the VON show in San Jose this week.  Not because I don't think it's a great event, but because Spring VON always coincides with spring break in Canada and I have kids.  I'll be there in the fall though. My great friend (and an advisory [...]

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