It's a Wonderful World at CTIA... the Parties, and You're Invited

CTIA kicks off next week in Las Vegas. You've got the inspiring conference sessions, innnovative exhibitors, and great parties and meetups. DIDX Dinner Party is at everyone's favorite Gordon Biersch less than a mile from the conference Apr 1, 7:30 - 9 PM. Just RSVP now.

Qik will be hosting a Tweet Up on Wednesday, April 1, from 7-10 pm. The location is at the Las Vegas Hilton, the Pool Area on the Third Floor. The Hilton is connected to the North Hall of the Convention Center.

(Speaking of Qik, I'm in San Francisco this past week and was able to Qik live video stream the Oakland-East Bay Gay Men's Chorus who performed for RRCA Convention 2009 last night. Listen and watch in my Qik channel on the right side of this blog. I love "It's a Wonderful World.")

You can sign up for the Qik Meetup and get more information at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=69119667494. If you are not on Facebook, feel free to post in the comments section if you are interested in attending either Qik or DIDX networking events during CTIA.

Vantage Communications' Rob Adler also shared the great networking events list during CTIA via Mobileslate: http://www.mobileslate.com/blog/2009-ctia-spring-networking-events/

Round Two: Boxee vs Hulu

Just got this news while talking with my fiddler/violin/Pensacola Symphony playing friend Francis trying Ekiga an open source voip application formerly known as GnomeMeeting. Watch the boxing excitement in the ring with Boxee and Hulu duking it out. Hulu... still keeping its "internet TV" fists closed. Currently only USA viewers can watch Hulu online. Boxee used an RSS feeder to include worldwide viewers, but last Friday, Hulu blocked Boxee again!

But keep in mind, Victory is achieved if the opponent is knocked down and unable to get up before the referee counts to ten seconds (a Knockout, or KO) or if the opponent is deemed too injured to continue (a Technical Knockout, or TKO).

Read on at http://tech.yahoo.com/news/zd/20090306/tc_zd/237851.


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VoicePulse Makes you Famous at ITEXPO East 2009

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Car Wrecks, Qik, And SIP in Pensacola, Florida

Time 5:50 PM, Tuesday, Jan 27, 2009. I'm reading Facebook statuses of hundreds of friends, laughing, being educated, and/or feeling empathetic. Michael's driving us to run the Emerald Coast Racing Team workout.

Boom! Airbag, smack! My progressive eyeglasses crushed... Michael's saying he's okay. I can't see to get to Qik to stream this shenanigan.




We open the doors of our Chevy Tracker (which doesn't look totalled but later we find out it is). We huddle in the ditch. I take pictures of anything I can and change my Facebook status to "Michael and i just got into abig car accident. A guy coming out of a bar hit us. We.re both bleeding but able to stand outside the car. i.m shaking."

I forget about Qik. We didn't catch on video a very peculiar situation that I will not discuss online. Hindsight. Michael's mid section is pretty banged up. My head, oh my big head.

Steve Fair shows up after he sees my Facebook status. Then Steve Cayona shows up, same reason, with Michael's insurance papers. Bless you both. I sit on the ground and read my Facebook friends' words of encouragement on my wall while hugging Michael close and crying silently.

Next day, the neck, shoulders, head, and right eye are throbbing. Can't see to work on my computer. Progessive lenses shot.

Steve Cayona, my Super Technologies' colleague, calls and says, "Quit feeling sorry for yourself. You and I are going to the ITGulfcoast meeting. Why would you want to miss John R. Bartoszewicz, Managing Partner of Business Communications & Data (BCD), discuss Sessions Initiated Protocol (SIP) in little old Redneck Riviera Pensacola, Florida?"

Watch some on Qik starting with http://qik.com/video/934968 and 3 more videos* after. (It's a bit sloppy because I just can't see that well. I'm feeling very sloppy.) He mentions that Cox Communications will be providing SIP soon. (Cox and Super Technologies, Inc. are sponsors of ITGulfcoast.)

John also mentions the fact that his company will be using an IP PBX hosted by Commpartners (who btw, are the ones who manage http://www.voip-info.org. We spent some time with them at PTC in 2007. John explains SIP so well and so simply.

You make me proud of Northwest Florida, John.

I'm going to work now with my face as close to the Dell as possible. See you at the Super Bowl party on Sunday in Miami and most of all ITEXPO East / 4G Wireless Evolution / Digium | Asterisk World, all 12,000 or more of you. Get your passes here at www.itexpo.com now.

* I'll get the Qik videos titled, etc. soon.

Viddler.com Enables up to 500 MB Uploads

My colleague from Super Technologies, Inc... Imran Ahmed posted on his blog at http://blog.emranahmed.net/?p=24 about Viddler. Now, I want to share the wealth with you! Viddler.com