
{"id":152,"date":"2008-09-26T11:20:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T18:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/skype-begins-un-walling-the-walled-garden\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T18:20:12","slug":"skype-begins-un-walling-the-walled-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/26\/skype-begins-un-walling-the-walled-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype begins un-walling the Walled Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said it before &#8211; and I&#8217;ll say it again. Walled gardens are great for developing a market &#8211; but the outcome is inevitable (barring anti-competitive regulation). The walls fall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/share.skype.com\/sites\/en\/2008\/09\/skype_for_asterisk_beta.html\">Skype announced yesterday<\/a> that they are introducing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\">Skype<\/a> interface (know as a channel driver) for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asterisk.org\">Asterisk<\/a>. This is great news &#8211; it enables Skype to work within the larger VoIP environment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve applied to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosinity.com\" title=\"cosinity - communications applications that deliver\">cosinity<\/a> beta test this solution &#8211; it will allow us to use a Skype account as a business &#8220;phone number&#8221; for page2call. Hopefully Skype won&#8217;t attempt to defend their network in the Terms or EULA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said it before &#8211; and I&#8217;ll say it again. Walled gardens are great for developing a market &#8211; 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 &#8211; it enables Skype&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/26\/skype-begins-un-walling-the-walled-garden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skype begins un-walling the Walled Garden<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,31,33],"tags":[254,300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}