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New voiceglue

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I’ve written in the past about voiceglue, our open source project to integrate Asterisk telephony with openVXI VXML.    Well, today we put out a new version that represents a pretty significant upgrade.
Details about the release are on the voiceglue site, so I won’t repeat them here.   And we put a formal PR piece [...]

Jeff’s Social Media Breakfast

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Jeff Pulver has been running a very fun series of networking breakfasts the last year or so.   The locations vary and he hits many major western cities around the world at least once a year.    I’ve wanted to go for a long time, but always seemed to have schedule conflicts.
But I was finally [...]

Twitter is so last year

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You know that twitter is over when marketing conferences feature sessions advising businesses to use twitter for advertising and the mainstream media NY Times starts running “how to” articles.    Tech columnist David Pogue’s article titled “Twittering Tips for Beginners” has comments such as:

“Twitter.com is all the rage among geeks” — hmmm, maybe in 2007?
“I’ve [...]

New Year Res: Unsubscribe

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Perhaps it’s because with the new year I moved to a new email system.   With a nice shiny new empty mailbox.   It’s inspired me to start cleaning up the crud that fills my inbox these days.  And you know, google apps’s spam control is pretty good, not much true spam is getting through. [...]

New tech tool-chain decisions

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I abide by the wisdom that competition fosters greater innovation, honing and improving approaches and efficiencies in just about any domain.    It’s one of the things that moves mankind forward, and has led to the incredible productivity gains of the internet age.
But at times standards races, or de-facto standards races, can be a downright [...]

Early Xmas present from Comcast

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Comcast has received some bad press in the last few months, from disrupting large transfers with RST packets, to putting bandwidth caps in place.   And I decry those things.
But I do have a soft spot in my heart for them — in 2005 they cabled my street, a low density area in a rural [...]