Tim May at Astricon 2008: mini history lesson in telephony

Tim May with Etone Connect. He's a telephony historian, or at least, that is how I defined him. We met him at Astricon 2008. He became interested in Internet telephony in the early 90s (same as me, but for me, it was to help me teach English to middle schoolers). In 1997, they provided a voip calling card for retailers. They created a voiceover at 2 cents/minute and their first order was over $1 million.

They are a SIP trunking provider and wholesale telephony now. He remembers going to all the free Cisco training classes. Listen to the complete interview and check http://www.EtoneConnect.com.

(Our company Super Technologies, Inc. is a media partner or sponsor for several global conferences via its DIDX (DIDXchange) media channels. To name a few: http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/did-ddi/, http://www.didx.net/events/, http://www.youtube.com/user/supertecvideos, Facebook groups and event areas, Linkedin event areas, as you well know, the list goes on an on. We serve over 12,000 IP-communications entities that range from competitive local exchange carriers and mobile operators to entrepreneurial mobile voip application providers and IP-PBX providers at www.didx.net to buy and sell USA and international phone numbers over SIP and IAX2.)

Nigerian Language Discussion at Astricon

Always fascinated with foreign languages, hearing them spoken, learning to comprehend them and understand the world in a new way...

Adetola Ogunsan from Voicenode is a DIDX member. We met face to face at Astricon where we had a great discussion about Nigerian languages and what to eat in Lagos.

He speaks Yoruba. Listen in at Viddler and learn how to say good morning in that language.


... browse some of our team's other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Welcome to No Rules Telephony I: David Duffett at Astricon

David Duffett discusses regarding telephony, the old rules where we came from, open standards even back then in 1999, being boring, being remarkable and business advantages of open source telephony.

Talks about rules that have been busted. Chocolates flew everywhere. Ask Draython Savoi after he stated, "But I already am remarkable."

David Duffet has quite an interesting variety in his professional portfolio. One, he is known as one of the easiest to understand Asterisk Bootcamp instructors.

Part II of David Duffet's talk at Astricon on Youtube on my Astricon playlist.

I need to figure out how to turn the volume up while recording from my Nokia E61i. So for now, the only way to hear it well, is to put on a headset and turn it up.

... browse my other blog at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You're welcome to comment, contribute, and collaborate any time.

Carlton O'Reilly Wins Nokia 810, at Astricon's Code Zone

DIDX (also known as DIDXchange) sponsored Astricon 2008's Code Zone Developer Room and Party to show its deep appreciation to the Asterisk developer community around the globe. Carlton O'reilly won a Nojia 810 at the Asterisk Bake-off at the Code Zone.

See more pictures from Astricon 2008 at my Facebook photos Astricon 1 or Astricon 2 or at my Picasaweb Google photos. If you know anyone in them, please tag.

And check out what a Nokia 810 looks like and what it can do. Wikipedia shows on Sept 28, 2008 at 6:24 PM... "The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet is an Internet appliance from Nokia, announced on October 17, 2007 at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Despite Nokia's strong association with cellular products, the N810 is not a phone, but instead allows the user to browse the Internet and communicate using Wi-Fi networks or with a mobile phone via Bluetooth. It builds on the hardware and software of the Nokia N800 with some features added and some removed."

Congratulations, Carlton.

I didn't get to see who want the Asterisk Troubleshooting Contest. Let me go check that too. Astricon.net's website does not state who won. Does anyone know?

Astricon 2008 Code Zone Developers, Robot, and Lumenvox

... give me time and I'll add several dozen other videos from Astricon 2008 in Glensdale, AZ. They range from you vicariously experiencing the Code Zone Developer Party Tuesday night sponsored by DIDXchange to around 1 AM robot demo to Gerd Graumann announcing exciting new apps can be created because of Asterisk and Lumenvox's partner I6net.com.

Gotta go study now.