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(Belated) VON Wrapup - Eve of Disruption

( VoIP )

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 […]

VON Day 1, Lessig, Pepper, MMOG

( Net Freedom and VoIP )

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 […]

Arrived at (a cold) VON

( VoIP )

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, […]

ATT, Bell South, and IMS

( Net Freedom and VoIP )

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 […]

Steve interviewed on PPN

( Net Freedom and VoIP )

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 […]

See you at Spring VoN?

( VoIP )

And the beat goes on, the days are getting longer, and it’s time for the annual trek to San Jose. SpringVON starts in just over two weeks.
I’ll be there Tuesday through Thursday, (March 14 - 16), in case any readers would like to get together.
I’m speaking on two different panels on Tuesday, […]