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Skype + VoIP

Our National Parks and Cell Phone Coverage is a National Disgrace!!!

July 31, 2010
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National Parks are some of America’s most important assets. Some are quite off the beaten track… others are more accessible. All are spectacular in their own way. All of them seem to SUCK for cell phone coverage. What was your experience this summer? Did you just put up with it too? In the last few [...]

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How Important is FaceTime? Do You Need a FaceTime Strategy?

July 31, 2010
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A month ago I circulated some blog post ideas to friends on Apple Facetime. I got some feedback that they were interesting. In the meantime I’ve continued to trace Apple’s FaceTime video solution for iPhone and contemplate the implications. Ultimately, I’m interested in the opportunities FaceTime is likely to create and present. Then what it [...]

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Skype’s Face Slap – FaceTime comes with Apple iPhone 4.0

June 7, 2010
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So FaceTime will be Apple’s answer to Skype Video, the Jetson’s or StarTrek communicators. Apple just released the fourth generation iPhone details. Few surprises from my perspective. I liked the way elements are positioned with a technical argument underpinning them. Eg the pixels on the camera or the screen construction. Yes I want one, and [...]

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GIPS – once GlobalIP Sound goes to Google. Skype and Strategy

May 19, 2010
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GIPS sells out to Google! Congrats to my friends at GIPS and to Andy and the Comunicano team for he’s been part of a successful exit yet again. What will Google do with it? We don’t know yet. Will it be embedded into Android? What’s the impact re video? What will be the impact on [...]

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Skype and iPhone 4.0 – Watch everyone now scramble….Telecoms and Social Networks

April 8, 2010

For the first time in a long while it almost appears Skype is on a trajectory to really change the world. It took Apple rather than Skype to figure it out. While Apple dragged their feet on early VoIP apps running in the background they built up a user base that can potentially carry Skype [...]

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Skype introduces “slob view cam” via LG and Panasonic TV’s.

January 5, 2010
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Just tweeted that the Skype integration with LG and Panasonic TV’s raises some interesting usability questions and options. LG, Panasonic to Add Skype to TVs – WSJ.com. On further reflection this may be the rise of ‘slob view cam’. Skype Technologies SA has partnered with LG Electronics Inc. and Panasonic Corp., saying the companies will [...]

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RTX DualPhone 3088 – Skype without the PC

January 2, 2010

Who wants to Skype without a computer? Is Skype relevant or more relevant when the computer is no longer required? Two use cases really show how Skype usage is changing. One on mobiles like the iPhone Skype app (which fails the always on test) and then there is the traditional handset. Over years of testing [...]

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Should a Social Skype add Skeets? How does Skype compete with Twitter? A Rant!

November 10, 2009

I’d love to see Skype follow Brian McConnell’s advice on @gigaom and add an open status updating mechanism.  See my “Skype Will Never Beat Facebook from Jan09 so this isn’t the first time it has been discussed in the Skypeosphere. However, he has to go further and I believe Twitter is equally dangerous and may [...]

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Smoke Signals – Is it time to burn our telephone numbers?

November 6, 2009

Just for fun… The Chinese, Greeks, Romans and American Indians all used “smoke” to communicate complex messages. Todayʼs smoke signals may just be Twitter or another micro- blogging service. What implications does this have for mobile communications and escalating the conversation? For sender and receiver? How are our signaling patterns changing? A new type of [...]

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The Emerging Telecology of Social Networks and the Status Update

November 6, 2009

This time last week I presented at eComm. The title of my talk “The Emerging Telecology of Social Networks and the Status Updates”. A long title for profferring the view that “messaging” and “status updates” are central for the future of telephony. Afterwards I was asked a few questions and I thought I’d add a [...]

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Jame Enck – On the Good News (Reality Check) #ecomm

October 28, 2009

James Enck. What are the main themes over the next 30 to 40 years? The Bad News: Today we have stressed national budgets, traumatized consumers. High corporate dept rates, and the recovery rate is 1/2 the historical average. (Glad there is some realism here!) The recovery is about doing things differently. The future will not [...]

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Martin Geddes on Ideas at #eComm

October 28, 2009

“Today we’ve got missed calls, tomorrow the phone will tell you why you should call back.” Martin Geddes, Head of Strategy, BT Design says in his keynote address at Ecomm Europe09, that he will present some ideas (his own).  The era of minutes in telephony is gone. Goodbye minutes, hello moments. When a global business [...]

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Jajah @call @stuarthenshall service misses the Phweet spot IMHO

September 16, 2009

Daniel Terdiman of Cnet  reports that Jajah will enable Twitter to talk. There’s a few hints in their announcement. There’s also material differences in what the experience is likely to deliver vs Phweet which was launched 15 months ago and remains in PublicAlpha as we never believed in giving free calls away to grow the [...]

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Skype Developers Long Ago Moved On. — We are looking for the next thing.

September 11, 2009

When Skype was sold in 2005 I effectively turned my back on them. More than most I’d put in hours working on my business and theirs. I was effectively an unpaid Skype evangelist before Skype blogs, before people even realized the power of blogs and social media. Social Networks hardly existed at the time. Helping [...]

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Panel on Innovation through Observation and Design #Mobilize

September 10, 2009

Some interesting comments although few examples provided. As always, good research and design is a mix of talented people and the result of powerful conversations. Schedule Innovation through Observation and Design Some of the best products and designs of the last 10 years have been derived from the study of human behavior. Landmark companies like [...]

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