I’ve said it before – and I’ll say it again. Walled gardens are great for developing a market – but the outcome is inevitable (barring anti-competitive regulation). The walls fall. Skype announced yesterday that they are introducing a Skype interface (know as a channel driver) for Asterisk. This is great news – it enables Skype… Continue reading Skype begins un-walling the Walled Garden
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ASU CAPSTONE project for cosinity
As you may know (from reading here) I’m involved with ASU Polytechnic’s DEAC industry advisor group. I’m happy to say that cosinity will be sponsoring a Entrepreneurial CAPSTONE project this year with ASU Poly and the Morrison School of Management You can read the cosinity press release here. This will be an excellent opportunity for… Continue reading ASU CAPSTONE project for cosinity
Old marketing with new tools
Here is an interesting read from Seth Godin. We tend to use new tools to do less. We try to save time and money at the same time, and end up depersonalizing and commodifying what we do. A simple example: cost and speed pressure means that when you get your car serviced, it’s unlikely you’ll… Continue reading Old marketing with new tools
It didn’t work… I quit…
Seth Godin reminds us that “new economy” or old – one primary virtue of those who are successful is the ability to persevere. The ability to act near term and plan long term. To not fall into the trap of giving up after the first Angel/VC/Expert smirks at your vision. In short – don’t quit.… Continue reading It didn’t work… I quit…
page2call is available for beta
cosinity – my communications applications startup has announced the beta availability of page2call Full Press Release There are only 300 beta accounts available… so sign up now…
Goober – every feature you never wanted…
From the folks at TechCrunch comes news of the most featurerific IM client EVER. It has everything… except an real idea about how to use all these neat features to derive real value for customers. This is exactly why I founded cosinity – the primary use of advanced communications technologies seems to be “make something… Continue reading Goober – every feature you never wanted…
The more things change…
Change is good. Change challenges us to move beyond what we know and learn. That being said, change is scary. It forces us to deal with the unknown and sometimes unknowable. And in this case… it forces us to leave behind a secure payday. What the heck am I talking about? I’ve left behind my… Continue reading The more things change…
about cosinity CallRecord
For those of you looking for more information about cosinity CallRecord, the following video will give you all the information you need. If you are interested please visit cosinity.com and sign up.
The sad state of Voice Communication
If you really stop to think about it, voice communications is – by comparison with all of the other communication mechanisms available to us – hopelessly rudimentary. The reality is – even with the advent of VoIP and services like Vonage, Skype and Gizmo – the basic phone call hasn’t changed very much Alexander Grahm… Continue reading The sad state of Voice Communication
Skype outage – debunking the peer to peer myth…
Skype has been down for close to 12 hours now… which – as a software architect by trade – got me to wondering how a nodal peer to peer system (theoretically with no centralized services/single points of failure) could suffer a complete outage… Listen to the embeded CallRecord for more… http://www.cosinity.com:9080/lps-3.3.3/my-apps/cosinity/miniplayer.lzx?lzt=swf&lzr=swf7&debug=false&ref=3c7781a36bcd6cf08c11a970fbe0e2a6