At his eComm America 2010 keynote presentation Monday morning, Skype’s recently appointed Chief Technology Strategist Jonathan Rosenberg provided his perspective on where Skype can introduce real time communications into “social sharing” activities.
Positioning the current state of social networking as personal broadcasting where a Twitter or Facebook message “broadcasts” your information out to a selected [...]
Communications Stories, Conferences and Events, Conversation Providers, Using Skype
It’s almost two years since the launch of PamFax as a fax sending service that allows anyone with a PC and an Internet connection to send faxes to any fax terminal worldwide at low per page rates. With a simple fax setup and no subscription requirements, PamFax has become a very popular and robust [...]
Communications News, Service Providers, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions
Recently I wrote about the official launch of Tungle, the meeting accelerator that provides a cross-platform, cross-calendar service for scheduling meetings via the web. In fact, with its new features I am now finding that 100% of my meeting requests have a response that results in a meeting. In other words the released version [...]
Communications News, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
Yesterday’s post, SocialScope: for a Complete, But Managed, Twitter Experience, outlines why I have found SocialScope to be the most complete Twitter client on any platform offered to date. But it only runs on BlackBerry. Why? A recent interview with Ubiquitous Systems CEO Amit Kumar provided the answers.
As their initial goal the Ubiquitous team [...]
Conversation Providers, Mobile Applications, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
When it comes to organizing and following my Twitter activity, I have found that SocialScope – currently in a closed beta and only available on BlackBerry – provides the most complete and most satisfying Twitter user experience. A recent interview with Ubiquitous Systems CEO Amit Kumar provided some additional background on how SocialScope evolved [...]
Mobile Applications, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
Skype today published data from a recent Zobgy survey that, aside from demonstrating smartphone users’ desire to control their own phone configuration, demonstrates that a significant majority of users in the four countries surveyed (U.S., U.K., Japan and Spain) simply are still not perceiving the potential for a mobile phone handset to be considered [...]
Communications Stories, Mobile Applications, Skype News, Wireless Carriers
While I can find no press release from any of Skype, iSkoot or 3, it appears there was some 3 media event yesterday where it was announced that 3 will be introducing a new Skypephone 2 on August 18. Key new features include:
3G mobile broadband supporting HSDPA
a 3.2 Mpixel camera (vs the current 2.0 Mpixel)
integration [...]
Mobile Devices, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype on Mobile, Wireless Carriers
CalliFlower: iotum rebrands its Free Conference Call service with a focus on a rich user experience not only for conference call moderators but also for participants.
Value-add in the Web 2.0 world comes primarily through the user interface. There’s a plethora of great technology innovation happening out there. But it’s becoming acknowledged that ease of [...]
Communications News, Service Providers
Join our Facebook CEBP group. It provides a social networking platform to talk about Voice Mashups and CEBP.
Tags: Facebook, Social Networking
Misc
Mobivox is a service that let’s you make low cost or free calls worldwide at little or no cost from any phone, whether wireless or landline. Call a local access number in any of over 40 countries and tell the MobiVox Girl whom you wish to call and whether to call their home, office, mobile [...]
Service Providers, Skype World, Skype on Mobile