Max and Jon Arnold at ECOMM 2008, both extremely interesting to discuss what's up in IP and non-IP and thinking up change to make things better not just for change. Check out their blogs!
In the midst of the first night reception at Ecomm 2008 at the Computer History Museum: Jim Courtney of Skype Journal, Suzanne Bowen of DIDX DIDXchange, Boaz Zilberman Fring, good friends
Speaking at Ecomm 2008... children use the Internet in search of being a kid. Individual is at the center, not the content. (Memorable quote: Getting a response/acknowledgement on the net means you exist.)
Stipe Tolj at Ecomm 2008. Kannel is a compact and very powerful open source WAP and SMS gateway, most used around the globe both for serving millions of short messages (SMS) and pushing WAP service indications. (Memorable Quote: Giving up control does not mean defeat.)http://www.kannel.org
Michel Bauwens Peer to Peer Foundation presenting at Ecomm 2008... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Bauwens ... (Memorable quote: Proprietary processes lose out in the face of competition.)
Michael Codini, CTO of VoiceObjects presents at Ecomm 2008. Discusses personalization of middleware and more. Quote: Banks and other businesses miss the opportunity to upsell and cross-sell while personalizing.
Ben Lilienthal, CEO of VAPPS presents at Ecomm 2008. http://www.highspeedconferencing.com ... sends wideband calls over end points like Skype via a monthly prescription based on the number of callers.
Shidan Gouran Jazinga Imagine a consumer pbx, a little box with a WIFI router, PSTN interfaces, DECT base station that runs a software like Asterisk, FreeSwitch... (Memorable quote: ISPs should give this to their customers on the condition that the users set it up.)
Slide from Shidan Gouran's prezo at Ecomm 2008... (Jazinga)
Pascal Charest, research engineer at Communications Research Centre Canada, and Michael Bauwens P2P Foundation rethink at Ecomm 2008, some of my lunch partners on the last day of Ecomm 2008 in Mountain View, CA at the Computer History Museum.
David Recordon of six apart speaks at Ecomm 2008. He explains how Jabber/XMPP works with GoogleTalk and Livejournal, how to become involved with mobile openid, mobile oauth, hcard parsing, DiSo, and OpenSocial
Brough Turner of NMS Communications was often an excellent MC at EComm 2008 but also a speaker. Didn't he share info on the Swedish Urban Neworks Assocation or was that someone else? The one who spoke about 3 fiber types, issues and how officials notice a country's global rank in broadband... hoping I'll get help here. Brough is a speaker for VON.x in San Jose week of Mar 17 also.
Koushik Chatterjee Business Strategy Manager of Embarq presents at Ecomm 2008: why privacy, social networking profile, anonymous voip services, community caller ID.
Simonie Wilson VUI Tuning Engineer from Intervoice presents at Ecomm 2008. This was one of my favorite slides because I know more us of should use tastefully use more humor in customer service whether on an IVR, portal, etc.
Karel Luka COO of yugma and Carolyn Schuk a writer from the Mountain View area who I had the pleasure of having lunch with the 2nd day at Ecomm. yugma has a cross platform of phone conferencing with a flat rate and no mandatory contract and open APIs with Skype. I hope to see Carolyn at VON.x next week, too. Both were very interesting.
Matthew Hamrick (right?) of Homebrew Mobile Club http://hbmobile.org/... was a speaker and exhibitor for Ecomm 2008. Want an open phone? Seems no support from carriers. Let's look at technologies that meet a humanitarian agenda.
Awarded 2004 Fellow of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, Bob Frankston was also a presenter at the Ecomm 2008.
Daniel Enstrom of Ericcson was at Ecomm 2008 to be educated and network just like I was. I enjoyed our conversation between presentations.
Rocky Nevin, DataSea, Inc., CEO, at Ecomm 2008 presenting Introducing Human-friendly Computing through Natural Language Inferencing. He studied neurons of a cricket with a computer and applies what he learns from the human world to the machine world. Language has evolved for a reason. He shared info on a beta project with salesforce.com. http://www.datasea.com
dave troy ecomm 2008
Martin Geddes of http://www.stlpartners.com/, S. T. Stanley Chia of vodafone
Striking Critical Balance between Giving it away and Making Money... feel free to tag whose presentation this was from.
