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about cosinity CallRecord

Thursday, August 30th, 2007 | cosinity | Comments

For those of you looking for more information about cosinity CallRecord, the following video will give you all the information you need.

If you are interested please visit cosinity.com and sign up.

The sad state of Voice Communication

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 | Innovation, The Future, VoIP, cosinity | Comments

If you really stop to think about it, voice communications is - by comparison with all of the other communication mechanisms available to us - hopelessly rudimentary.

The reality is - even with the advent of VoIP and services like Vonage, Skype and Gizmo - the basic phone call hasn’t changed very much Alexander Grahm Bell placed the first call in 1876. We have a few more basic features (voicemail, caller id) but still lack many of the basic functions that have made email and instant messaging so valuable.

More after the jump…

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I have too may phone numbers… so give me another one???

Monday, August 20th, 2007 | Innovation, Uncategorized, VoIP | Comments

File this under “how to reduce complexity by increasing complexity”.

I always wondered why people thought GrandCentral’s primary offering was so great… one (more) number for life…

It seems that whole plan has come back to bite some GrandCentral users as they have now been informed that their existing one (more) number for life is being shut off in 8 days and that they will be issued another one (more) number for life. Details here… original TechCrunch Article

This was (and I am a GrandCentral subscriber) my primary beef with GrandCentral from the beginning. The way to solve the “I have too many phone numbers/voicemail boxes” problem is certainly not to add yet another phone number to manage, maintain, publish, etc.

In short… you can’t reduce complexity by increasing complexity.

The reality is, until we get a phone system that works based on the new reality of presence, location and identity as opposed to the old reality of physical devices and physical addressing (i.e., phone numbers) any attempt to solve this problem is unrealistically complex and will create as many problems as it solves.

Just my 2 cents…

If you spend any time attempting to derive value from blog comments…

Monday, August 20th, 2007 | Humor, Uncategorized | Comments

You’ll really enjoy this…

WARNING: Some pretty vulgar language in this clip.

Skype outage - debunking the peer to peer myth…

Thursday, August 16th, 2007 | VoIP, cosinity | Comments

Skype has been down for close to 12 hours now… which - as a software architect by trade - got me to wondering how a nodal peer to peer system (theoretically with no centralized services/single points of failure) could suffer a complete outage…

Listen to the embeded CallRecord for more…