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 [...]
Spring VON ended a week ago. I flew back home on Friday and promptly came down with the flu. All week I’ve been recovering, and playing catch-up on assorted work deadlines that my illness had delayed. But finally tonight I have a moment to sit down and reflect on a pretty incredible [...]
I had a lot of fun at VON yesterday, and took a few notes on things I found interesting:
Larry Lessig started the day off at 8:30 with an excellent, well-rehearsed talk on commons, property rights, history, network neutrality etc. He talks about networks other than the internet … “unowned networks”, like the [...]
One of the things I always look forward to at VON is the break from the long New England winter … a week in sunny California. Well, I got in last night to record breaking low temperatures, it’s actually colder here in the Bay area than back home in Boston.
But, [...]
Now we see where Ed Whitaker (CEO SBC) and Bill Smith (CTO Bell South) talking up premium-tiered internet has led (here, here, and what Billy Joel might have to say ).
A merger of bullies, who see the internet as their toll road. I fear bad times are a’comin, at least [...]
Your humble narrator had fun a couple weeks ago being interviewed on Pulvermedia Podcast Network. Here’s the brief description:
Jeff Pulver sat down and had a chat with Steve Smith, Chief Scientist at Lavalife, about the state of IP communications as they pertain to things like online dating and gaming, and where they [...]