Business | enterprise | partners | sip | SkypeKit

Avaya US to preinstall Skype trunking; UC federation in 2011H2

“The Internet gets better with age.” — David Gurle, GM, Skype Enterprise

A deal in to phases.

1. Starting in October 2010, Avaya will preinstall and promote Skype Connect in the United States. This allows Avaya’s [...]

analysis | Business | facebook | Skype | software

Silicon Valley and Doing The Hard Thing

re: Erick Schonfeld’s Silicon Valley Just Ain’t What It Used To Be—And That’s a Good Thing. Silicon Valley’s pursuit of Moore’s Law continues. The Valley’s follow-on software engineering, Internet,  and mobile revolutions continue to prosper and gain value. So I’m astonished Newsweek’s Dan Lyons thinks physics is the last hard science, the last real thing, [...]

fun | Life | SkypeLifeOnTwitter | Twitter

happy monday

Competitors | Developer Zone | Developers | marketing | twilio | VoIP

New $250K for 500Startups Twilio microfund

CORRECTION (25 Sept 2010): "we (Twilio) aren’t putting in any money… all the investment is coming from Dave McClure’s fund 500Startups."  – Danielle Morrill, Twilio

Twilio is putting $250 thousand into a seed fund for startups that use its technology. Incubator and investor 500 Startups will administer the fund.

Nobody in the Over [...]

design | Developers | grandstream | partners | Skype | SkypeKit | Technology | VoIP

Here’s what Skype looks like when Grandstream designs it

Skype designed software for Windows, Mac, and Linux desktops, iPhone, Blackberry, and Android smartphones, Nokia tablets and Symbian phones. With the launch of SkypeKit, Skype is encouraging others to design their own versions of Skype, either as a full Skype client or as Skype features in another app.

Grandstream built their own Skype client for [...]

Competitors | google | video

Google tests higher rez, lower cpu browser video chat

Serge Lachapelle blogs it. Turn it on in Gmail > Settings > Labs > Video chat enhancements. "Enables new features in Gmail voice and video chat, including higher resolution and bigger windows, with more improvements coming over time."

Call me at +1-510-343-5664, Skype me, follow @SkypeJournal and @evanwolf. Visit our Skype Journal [...]

5b | design | Developer Zone | Skype | SkypeKit | Technology | wishlist

Screenshot: Skype for Windows Beta 5 uses Adobe Flash player

I found this error message when I launched Skype for Windows Beta 5.0.0.123 this afternoon: "No flash player detected. Download it". News to me that Skype had any plug-in dependencies for its built-in browser. This is likely a bug, left over from prototyping, or triggered before needed by the (now hidden) video mood [...]

sip | SkypeConnect | skypeforbusiness | VoIP

Skype Connect documentation for SkypeOut from office phones

These docs walk you through adding Skype to your SIP office phone system. Skype Connect went out of closed beta last month. Download these Acrobat PDF files for your deployment enjoyment.

Guides: Skype Connect IT Guide Skype Manager™ Guide for Skype Connect Quick Start Guide Datasheets: Product Datasheet Technical Datasheet Click and Call Datasheet Outgoing [...]

analysis | design | Developer Zone | facebook | Technology | VoIP

From scratch

Had a thought. I doubt it is original. Here goes.

VoIP has had two waves.

The first VoIP wave (1990s-2003) was mired in POTS emulation, right down to digital versions of handsets, dialing with phone numbers, and switching modeled on telephone switchboard operators. The only thing abandoned was the rotary [...]

events | government | identity | iiw | USA

Heading to DC for Internet Identity Workshop East

The best place in the world of identity to be next week is Washington, DC, for IIW–East. I want to talk with people about (a) the future of personal data property laws and (b) data portability in the public sector.

I go to unconferences like IIW for the identity-focused brainpower. We’ll have the architects [...]

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