Thursday Reading

Stories

Coral Springs CBS4 interviews hometown marching band over Skype. Station saved flying a South Florida reporter to the D.C. inauguration.

US National Guardsman Skypes his family from Afghanistan deployment. Satellite uplink for connectivity.

Americans in Switzerland phonebanked for Obama over Skype. Three thousand SkypeOut calls reminding people to vote.

Competition

US FCC investigating Comcast's network neutrality. New network management may treat Skype and Vonage calls worse than their own telephony service.

Lotusphere 2009 Foreshadows the Death of Telephony. Zeus Kerravala, The Yankee Group: "While some of you may read "the death of telephony" and disagree, I do believe that telephony, as we know it, needs to die in its current form to accelerate UC and CEBP adoption"

Cisco television commercial makes the case for Skype video. WebEx lyrics to Gloria Gaynor's "I will survive"

Geekery

rhomobile application framework: open source Rhodes, and the $10k Rhodes app development contest.

Linking Skype 2.8 Beta to Twitter - here's how to do it... Dan York explains. Thanks, Dan!

tags: skype, fcc, vonage, us, lotusphere, lotusphere09, lotusphere2009, ls09, cisco

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