The WebRTC Global Summit runs in London from April 1-2, with a pre-conference workshop on Monday 31st March from Tsahi of bloggeek.me focused on “WebRTC in Telecoms”. Some of the highlights of the agenda, apart from catching up with lots of good friends focused on WebRTC such as Victor Pascual Ávila, include: Patrice Crutel, from […]
Tropo have launched the Tropo Developer Network (TDN), it’s a community of technical and business experts collaborating to bring Tropo-powered apps to new customers and markets around the world. If you have built a service focused on say the UK market, TDN can help you to take that service to other markets in say the […]
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting at the Illinois Institute of Technology Real-Time Communications Conference and Expo, its a collaborative event, where industry and academia connect. The presentation I’m giving is on ”The Winners and Losers in the move to Real-Time Cloud Communications,” shown below. If you track my presentations on this topic, the new material focuses […]
In mid-July TVXperience World ran in a hot and sticky New York City. The conference examined how multiscreen is influencing the evolution of the TV User Experience. It’s an important issue for telcos, cablecos, broadcasters, content producers, OTT TV providers, as well as the many device and technology vendors looking to where the money really […]
I had the opportunity to chat with Nirmalya De from ASK-ZIGGY about their natural language understanding service, exposed through an API, which has recently been mashed up with a Telecom API, Tropo. The mash-up means any business can add a customized and optimized Siri-like natural language interface for its customers or employees, at a fraction […]
I asked Jonathan Bell, VP Marketing at OpenCloud, some questions around TADS (Telecom Application Developer Summit), I’ll be doing this with the TADS sponsors, to understand the rich diversity of desires driving TADS, a grassroots initiative by people and businesses committed to creating a profitable and sustainable telecom application developer ecosystem. What excites you about […]
The SDP Global Summit has become the must-attend event across all telecom service platforms, not simply service delivery platforms. Previous Summits from 2012, 2011 Day 1, 2011 Day 2, and 2011 Highlights are reviewed on this weblog and you can see they have predicted the course of the industry. I’m in particularly excited about the […]
Before getting into the main message of this weblog, remember to beware “black and white thinking”. It’s about focus, not absolutes. This weblog came about as I realized this subtle but important distinction between mobile and telecom app developers is not broadly appreciated, it gets lost in the collective noun of developers. Most developers that […]
Voxeo Labs continues to give me free reign across their customers to chat about their experiences in running their businesses on Telecom APIs; such as myaNUMBER, Crunched, TeleSmart and there are many more weblogs to come. It’s a wonderful experience to see real businesses built on telecoms APIs and those businesses loving it. Love is […]
For a bit of fun I’ve put together a questionnaire around telco business model evolution. With questions on advertising models, app stores, API exposure, operator as a trusted agent, sharing of networks, quad play, etc. If you have the time I’d be grateful if you’d complete, and I’ll share the results in this weblog article.