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Enough SIP / Skype Foolishness

( Skype and VoIP )

SIP is Dead was a provocative headline after VON Canada, sparking a minor packet storm of blog commentary.  The bits have been flowing … 

It all started with Niklas Zennstrom’s report on exponential Skype growth at VON Canada, prompting Jeff Pulver to say Shift Happens and call Skype the iPod of Communications
Martin Geddes writes […]

My Interview with IT Business, Canada

( VoIP )

A couple months ago I spent an hour with a freelance writer doing a piece on VoIP for IT Business, a Canadian IT trade media outlet.   I just got notice that the piece did publish in March, and you can read it here.   Warning, the online formatting is slightly messed up.   My comments are […]

Long live the revolution

I wrote the following excerpt to in a private email, following the stimulation of Voice on the Net Canada, another excellent convergence of the people driving the VoIP revolution.   The recipient liked it, I’m posting it …
1998 — the internet will change everything
1999 - ecommerce, amazon, ebay, pets.com, the bubble
2001 — what […]

Skype update

( Skype )

Niklas Zennstrom gave a keynote at VON Canada yesterday.   He showed a curve plotting Skype adoption vs. Kazaa, Hotmail, and ICQ.   It blows them away.  Pulver put the presentation online here.  He talks about Skype as the iPod of telephony here.
Here’s some current stats:

35 million users
155 thousand new users per day
1.5 […]

My Travel Hassle Story

( General )

I am in Toronto for VON Canada which starts today.   Looks like a decent line-up, and I’m looking forward a couple of meetings with some key people.
It seems that bloggers get unduly hassled when boarding airplanes, entering the country, etc.   Or at least they like to write about it.
To enter this club, […]

Music should live in the cloud

( General )

I just read a NY Times piece  about the drivers behind the rapid growth of XM and Sirius radio.  XM just crossed 5 million subscribers.
It seems to me that there is something that is humanly manageable about the idea of a hundred or so channels, ad-free, each dedicated to a different genre or theme.  […]