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Voice 2.0 – Part 2
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–by Andrew McCaskey
On CNN this morning, a new service Jajah.com offers voip without any download client. You enter your PSTN number, and the PSTN number in, say Germany, click submit, and the system places two VoIP calls – one to your number, the other to the distant end, then bridges the connection. That particular connection under two cents a minute. One more example -as if you needed one, of what’s becoming known as Voice 2.0 .
You will remember from yesterday some excerpts from the whitepaper Voice 2.0 by Alex Saunders of iotum.com. It’s an attempt to capture the vision of the migrationfrom the public switched network, through what we know of today as Voip, to a truly integrated voice and web services environment.
Here’s some more from the article : People do like to talk. between 1994 and 2001, average cellphone minutes went from 140 to 427 mins per month. Landline went from 2.8 to 4.8 trillion minutes. It’s even higher today.First Skype then web based conferencing, push to talk, voice mail all moved to the 24/7 distributed workday.
In fact, talk is the baseline. Now add in video, IM messaging and cross over products just now emerging that move seamlessly from mobile to VoiP to portable phone to Skype or SIP and back again.Between connectivity, directory and applications, only applications are not commodities. And these applications will move from traditional things like conferencing, voice response to IT enabled apps at the intersection of business tools and technology like VoiceXML and PHPVoice. Every application that we use today for sales force automation, email, CRM, accounting, payroll will become enabled with voice.
PHPVoice is on the critical path because it will enable developers to use the same scripting techniques for web content on voice applications such as customer service combination with inventory/ordering/availability, or Real Estate MLS coupled with mapping – a mix of text, web, voice and programmatic flow.
The real pot of gold, and some application examples will be on tap for tomorrow, with the building blocks of Presence, Directory and XML. Each deserves some special attention. If you’d like the whitepaper, it’s linked on SDR.
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A Monthly Newsletter called ‘The Filter” : The public-interest Internet news and commentary from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Here is the newsletter signup link for the Filter
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The audio and recorded versions of the TechPodcast Roundtable from March 11. The video of the event contains both the U3 and Podtrac presentations.
CES CD Now Available
The official package of the entire SDR coverage for the CES Convention available in data CD form at the SDR CD Store page.
The book that I spoke about on 3/2 is called “Amusing Ourselves to Death” .
The preface to the book gives a good idea of the basic premise, and specific comments on television. (Remember, this was in the early 1980′s .. the hundred channel universe was not yet revealed )
A more lengthy summary is found at WikiPedia.
Interactive Touchscreen Demo: a video of a really cool touchscreen interface – about ten times better than the Bill Gates demo at CES. Hard to describe, about three minutes long.
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Now a really useful guide to Fixing Windows with Knoppix has appeared online, a reprint of a chapter in the book Hacking Knoppix from Scott Granneman . You might want to plan ahead, print out the chapter and put it alongside a fresh burn of Knoppix STD when you get the call.
I came across Google SMS again today- a way to pull all sorts of useful stuff from Google with the fast SMS from your cellphone.
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