It used to be that I would struggle with the month of March — there was VON in San Jose, and a week later David Isenberg’s excellent Freedom to Connect unconference in Silver Spring. But, not being a professional conference goer, I would either skip one or the other, or else attend both and [...]
I’m a huge user of Skype, as my friends and colleagues know. I’ve helped shift the management of several companies over to Skype as a productivity tool. One of the main reasons I use to promote Skype is the value of the seamless pyramid of communication: presence -> IM -> Voice. However, some factors are [...]
Back in June, Jeff Pulver got a discussion going on SIP and Skype, which focused on whether the SIP community could learn some lessons from Skype’s success and roll-out an equally viral compelling product. Yesterday Jeff observed that the discussion in the comment area has picked up again, and invited more people to jump [...]
That’s right, I’ll just give you a call on my “MCI Web Calling for Windows Live Call” shall I? Come on guys, can’t you at least sprinkle a few ™’s into that? Then again, at rates “starting at 2.3 cents a minute”, I guess you aren’t expecting many people to use it [...]
In the news this week San Francisco will build out a high speed city wide wi-fi network, whether donated for free by google, or built by someone else. You’ll have bits anywhere, maybe 1 mb symmetric.
Skype is embedding its (and Global IP Sound’s) technology in hardware devices. If you have [...]
Steve’s Tech Journal has been discovered by the comment spam bots — I’m now moderating 10 to 15 messages a day to the spam pile. Most of them have something to say about “1 small clove of garlic”, they all compliment my site which makes me feel very good, then they all have a [...]