Groove 3.0 is out
Go to www.groove.net and check out the trial version. Hopefully this one solves the problems that Groove 2.5 had. Amongst other things, it was a monstrous resource pig that killed the performance of even very fast PCs.
Archive for July, 2004
Pulver wants a few visionaries…
If you use FWD, then this might be very interesting.
Looking for IP Communication Visionaries. We’re looking for some beta testers for our new software client that combines exciting features of instant messaging, presence, VoIP and social networking running on top of the Free World Dialup network.
Templeton: Down with PoIP
Down with PoIP. Brad Templeton’s rant on the current VoIP offerings is dead on. The potential to do more than emulate the phone company is truly phenomenal. Niklas Zennstrom is right when he says that voice is becoming software, becoming an application. So strap on your headphones and give some of the new VoIP clients a whirl.
Tom Peters Blog
Management guru Tom Peters now has a blog at http://www.tompetersnew.com/. Congratulations Tom! No RSS feed, however. In fact, there is a posting asking whether an RSS feed will contribute to improved quality. The answer is obviously no. However, an RSS feed will contribute to being read. In my day, blogs that provide syndicated content get read daily. Blogs that don’t provide syndicated content are an afterthought which I check every two or three weeks.
SkypeOut and SIP?
Yesterday Skype finally announced the carriers for the SkypeOut service. iBasis, Teleglobe and two others. No surprises there. What was surprising was the quote:
A Skype spokeswoman says Skype was approached by a number of network operators with a view to terminating its commercial traffic, “but only a few could meet our interoperability requirements. We chose those that could provide SIP interoperability and a decent price.”
Is this (a) an error by the PR people, or (b) a tip of the hand to future support for SIP? If the latter, it would suggest that Skype’s strategy to support SIP will be to do it via gateways from their proprietary protocol to the rest of the net. Hmmm….
