Squawk Box August 28 – How communications technology is changing politics
This morning we talked about some of the stories that are emerging about the use of technology in politics. Barack Obama’s use of SMS to announce Joe Biden as his running mate, Microsoft’s deployment of a voter registration application on XBOX, and the novel ways that cellular phones are being used on the convention floor.
The other topic? Tomorrow is Skype’s 5th anniversary. How has Skype changed your world? the communications industry?
On the conference call today: Dan York, James Body, Jim Courtney, Bill Volk, Jonathan Jensen, Sheryl Breuker, Jeanette Fisher, Dave Brown
August 29th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Skype’s 5 years of disruption… (Happy Birthday, Skype!)…
Five years ago today, the first public beta of Skype launched, and in a blog post today new Skype CEO Josh Silverman celebrates with “Five Years of Wow”. It’s a bit of the “Ra-Ra” celebratory kind of post I would…
January 28th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
[...] Over the past few months I have been a frequent participant on Alec Saunders’ daily SquawkBox conference call where several of those involved in following today’s communications and web developments will discuss topics of the day. Subjects for yesterday’s call were the impact of the Internet on this years U.S. President campaign and Skype’s fifth anniversary today. Participants included Dan York of Voxeo, James Body of Truphone, William Volk of MyNumo (one of the more successful iPhone Apps developers) and Jonathan Jensen amongst others. The Saunderslog post is here. [...]