A few days ago I blogged about Lavalife winning the CIPA award for Innovation for our VoIP project. Since then I’ve been getting lots of congratulatory emails from friends and colleagues, and I’ve also noticed that there’s been a bit of press coverage.
First off, here’s an official press release from MTS Allstream who nominated us
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Lavalife was honored to receive a Silver Award for Innovation at the Canadian Information Productivity Awards ceremony held on Nov 1. This organization annually recognizes outstanding achievement in the IT fields, and these awards are prestigious accomplishments in the Canadian IT industry.
As many of you know, this was a project that I initiated in 2003 [...]
I wrote last week about Jeff Pulver’s pilot use of Second Life during this Fall’s VON conference. Jeff built this island over the summer, designing it be a place that could be used for everything from large scale presentations to smaller interactive meetings. This island itself is just beautiful, and the conference center sits on [...]
Andy started it. Jeff (and others) picked it up.
I’m in.
Happy early birthday Jeff!
Yesterday many people were unable to reach me via my Asterisk-based unified number system.  They could call, but all they would get was dead air. It’s back up now, but it was certainly inconvenient. I called tech support at my VoIP provider (Broadvoice), and was told that there was an “issue” with a “third party [...]
The NY Times has an article about hackers that ripped off (they believe) Net to Phone and other VoIP companies (News.com version here).  It makes for interesting reading.
It appears that the plaintiffs gained access to the routers of an investment firm that had accounts with some of the VoIP carriers, then routed traffic through this [...]