Showing posts with label ispcon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ispcon. Show all posts
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Hear the Telecom Reality in Shona in Zimbabwe
Some great Zimbabwe Online guys and Danny Ngai of Jaxtr discuss telecommunications situation in Zimbabwe in English and in a common Zimbabwean language Shona at ISPCON 2008 in San Jose.
... 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.
Monday, February 23, 2009
ServerPlus Gets Rid of the ISP Pain in the Neck
Thank you, ServerPlus, from us at DIDX, for the great neck massage at ISPCON 2008. Check them out at http://www.serverplus.com!
... 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.
... 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.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
WISPA Conversation, Animal Farm in Jan. '09
Jack Unger, the FCC Committee Chairman and WISPA Board Secretary, received The 2008 WISPA Outstanding Contribution Award at ISPCON 2008 in San Jose.
Elizabeth Bowles is President and General Counsel of Aristotle Inc., a nationally-recognized Internet, Email, and Application Service Provider as well as an award-winning web design and interactive media firm.
Watch and listen to these two wireless Internet service provider experts summarize what's up at ISPCON! on Suzanne Bowen's Viddler channel.
Jack shared some thoughts condensed here ... a key goal for WISPA at ISPCON is for WISPs, the media and the government to understand the importance of the television white spaces and to provide wireless (not dialup) Internet access to residents and businesses in those areas.
Anne Tredway of Super Technologies, Inc. asked Jack, "How many bands are in that white space?"
40-50 television channels...
L. Elizabeth Boyles (very interesting speaker at ISPCON) explains that WISPs have been shut out of so much spectrum by decisions made by the government.
Check http://www.wispa.org for more about the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association.
They are also the sponsor of...
Wireless Beehive Manufacturing "Animal Farm"
http://www.wbmfg.com/animalfarm
Jan 14th-16th, 2009
Utah State Fair Park
155 North 1000 West
Salt Lake City, Utah
Looks interesting!
Elizabeth Bowles is President and General Counsel of Aristotle Inc., a nationally-recognized Internet, Email, and Application Service Provider as well as an award-winning web design and interactive media firm.
Watch and listen to these two wireless Internet service provider experts summarize what's up at ISPCON! on Suzanne Bowen's Viddler channel.
Jack shared some thoughts condensed here ... a key goal for WISPA at ISPCON is for WISPs, the media and the government to understand the importance of the television white spaces and to provide wireless (not dialup) Internet access to residents and businesses in those areas.
Anne Tredway of Super Technologies, Inc. asked Jack, "How many bands are in that white space?"
40-50 television channels...
L. Elizabeth Boyles (very interesting speaker at ISPCON) explains that WISPs have been shut out of so much spectrum by decisions made by the government.
Check http://www.wispa.org for more about the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association.
They are also the sponsor of...
Wireless Beehive Manufacturing "Animal Farm"
http://www.wbmfg.com/animalfarm
Jan 14th-16th, 2009
Utah State Fair Park
155 North 1000 West
Salt Lake City, Utah
Looks interesting!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Televoce CEO on Social Networking at Bloggers' Breakfast
Today's blog is courtesy of Anne Tredway and Bryan Coburn.
Watch the video at http://www.viddler.com/explore/suzannebowen/videos/21/.
Ed Prentice of TeleVoce was one of the small group attending the DIDX Blogger Breakfast during ISPCON. He's focusing on social networking. He remembers Comdex where the hall was so noisy that you couldn't tell how bad the quality might have been during voip demos. He discusses what Skype has done for consumers and small businesses and the fact many don't admit to that fact.
We go on here to summarize this video. Please click and watch and pass on the great clip! ... The SIP community was thinking that Skype couldn't work because it wasn't SIP. But people don't care what a solution is made of. They care what it will do for them.
Ed states that he is learning much from the Facebook world and thrilled to see that Suzanne Bowen and the gang were hosting a bloggers' breakfast during ISPCON at the Il Fornaio. Ed says, "I'm a secret fan of yours. This is great."
(Aw, you have made Suzanne's day, Ed!)
The group asked Ed, "What had he noticed about social networking that most effectively helps you move your business forward?"
Answer: "This is a revolution... we started contemplating as far as all the communications expertise I have ... quit trying to force something into this world... first application we did on Facebook called Poke the Pope on Facebook. It's a tool to learn the system. What we haven't done yet is to figure out how you should take advantage of social networking? ... One of the things you have to do in the social networking world is how do you keep 'them' motivated? ... I found someone who is good at leveraging social networking."
Ed Prentice continues, "When you talk to people in causes (on Facebook), they don't understand the concept of capitalism. All they have is a tincup and they walk around holding their tincup."
This reminds us of the kids who sit in front of Wal-mart with a tincup stating they need funds to go to camp or be in some t-ball play-offs. Not a very good impression and there are better more effective ways of completing this task.
Bring in corporate sponsors instead of thinking how much money will we have left when we are done donating.
Matthew Hardeman asked if by causes, did Ed Prentice mean philanthropic? He mentions that Ed and other social networking entrepreneurs are giving companies and causes another great venue to publish their work.
Ed thinks that social networking is very game-centric. He remembers his meeting with Facebook developers where this fact hit home. Ed is an engineer product designer and finds games concept on Facebook stimulating. How do you make people want to invite others to play the game? Suzanne Bowen and Jeff Pulver were the two key people on Facebook that he sees using it effectively.
See the video recording Suzanne made of Jeff sharing his social networking vision on Youtube.
Thank you from Super Technologies, Inc. and DIDX to Matthew Hardiman of IPiFony, Ed Prentice of Televoce, and Bryan Coburn (the video recorder of this session) at the Bloggers' Breakfast during ISPCON.
Watch the video at http://www.viddler.com/explore/suzannebowen/videos/21/.
Ed Prentice of TeleVoce was one of the small group attending the DIDX Blogger Breakfast during ISPCON. He's focusing on social networking. He remembers Comdex where the hall was so noisy that you couldn't tell how bad the quality might have been during voip demos. He discusses what Skype has done for consumers and small businesses and the fact many don't admit to that fact.
We go on here to summarize this video. Please click and watch and pass on the great clip! ... The SIP community was thinking that Skype couldn't work because it wasn't SIP. But people don't care what a solution is made of. They care what it will do for them.
Ed states that he is learning much from the Facebook world and thrilled to see that Suzanne Bowen and the gang were hosting a bloggers' breakfast during ISPCON at the Il Fornaio. Ed says, "I'm a secret fan of yours. This is great."
(Aw, you have made Suzanne's day, Ed!)
The group asked Ed, "What had he noticed about social networking that most effectively helps you move your business forward?"
Answer: "This is a revolution... we started contemplating as far as all the communications expertise I have ... quit trying to force something into this world... first application we did on Facebook called Poke the Pope on Facebook. It's a tool to learn the system. What we haven't done yet is to figure out how you should take advantage of social networking? ... One of the things you have to do in the social networking world is how do you keep 'them' motivated? ... I found someone who is good at leveraging social networking."
Ed Prentice continues, "When you talk to people in causes (on Facebook), they don't understand the concept of capitalism. All they have is a tincup and they walk around holding their tincup."
This reminds us of the kids who sit in front of Wal-mart with a tincup stating they need funds to go to camp or be in some t-ball play-offs. Not a very good impression and there are better more effective ways of completing this task.
Bring in corporate sponsors instead of thinking how much money will we have left when we are done donating.
Matthew Hardeman asked if by causes, did Ed Prentice mean philanthropic? He mentions that Ed and other social networking entrepreneurs are giving companies and causes another great venue to publish their work.
Ed thinks that social networking is very game-centric. He remembers his meeting with Facebook developers where this fact hit home. Ed is an engineer product designer and finds games concept on Facebook stimulating. How do you make people want to invite others to play the game? Suzanne Bowen and Jeff Pulver were the two key people on Facebook that he sees using it effectively.
See the video recording Suzanne made of Jeff sharing his social networking vision on Youtube.
Thank you from Super Technologies, Inc. and DIDX to Matthew Hardiman of IPiFony, Ed Prentice of Televoce, and Bryan Coburn (the video recorder of this session) at the Bloggers' Breakfast during ISPCON.
Monday, December 01, 2008
Live demo of Mobile WiMax Connection at ISPCON
ISPCON in San Jose let us see first-hand the Mobile WiMAX Tower from Alvarion in San Jose, CA. They set up 3.65 GHz connectivity within 12 minutes. How? With a laptop using a wireless card provided network access to the exhibition floor from a few blocks away. BreezeMAX 3650 offered base station transmission to the small CPE in the Alvarion booth. Really!
The PtP link enabled visitors to the Alvarion exhibit to access the Internet. Visitors were able to get information and sign up online to take advantage of bulk discount pricing by becoming part of AlvarionCOMNET, designed exclusively for WISPs.
A short walk to the terrace of the McEnery San Jose Convention Center enabled onlookers to view the Mobile WiMAX Tower in the parking area down the street. Retracting the Tower to tow it off at the end of the day was just as fast and simple as the setup.
I've got a video somewhere in which I recorded some of the visitors at their booth discussing the demo. Where is it???? Find out more about WiMax and rural development at Alvarion.
The PtP link enabled visitors to the Alvarion exhibit to access the Internet. Visitors were able to get information and sign up online to take advantage of bulk discount pricing by becoming part of AlvarionCOMNET, designed exclusively for WISPs.
A short walk to the terrace of the McEnery San Jose Convention Center enabled onlookers to view the Mobile WiMAX Tower in the parking area down the street. Retracting the Tower to tow it off at the end of the day was just as fast and simple as the setup.
I've got a video somewhere in which I recorded some of the visitors at their booth discussing the demo. Where is it???? Find out more about WiMax and rural development at Alvarion.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
ISPs Can Leverage Emails Like Yahoo and Google Do
Listen to Mark LiButti a great way to monetize your IP communications business at http://www.viddler.com/explore/suzannebowen/videos/8/. William Intrater was also helping out at the booth. I mistakenly thought William was speaking initially.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Tristan of Switchvox and Matthew or IPiFony at ISPCON
What would you expect to experience at a trade show for Internet service providers? Listen to Tristan Degenhart, one of the original founders of Switchvox and also working with Digium as well as Matthew Hardeman who is system architect of IPiFony discuss voip equipment and hosted IP pbx at http://www.viddler.com/explore/suzannebowen/videos/6/. Both are refreshing young people in our industry with energy, technical intelligence and marketing savvy we can all learn from.
About ISPCON...
I didn't get a chance to have a personal talk with Tristan, but we did get together with IPiFony at the DIDX Bloggers' Breakfast during ISPCON in San Jose last week (November 2008). We would like to note that Alex Goldman, Peter Radizeski, and others from Jupiter Media did an excellent job bringing participants together with the best speakers from VoipLogic, ImageStream, Google, Cogent Communications, ServerPlus, Jaguar Communications, Switchvox, IPiFony and more.
The exhibits were low in number but high in innovation and real skills at networking effectively. We all remember exhibits where the booth personnel hide in a corner and never make eye contact. ;-)
About ISPCON...
I didn't get a chance to have a personal talk with Tristan, but we did get together with IPiFony at the DIDX Bloggers' Breakfast during ISPCON in San Jose last week (November 2008). We would like to note that Alex Goldman, Peter Radizeski, and others from Jupiter Media did an excellent job bringing participants together with the best speakers from VoipLogic, ImageStream, Google, Cogent Communications, ServerPlus, Jaguar Communications, Switchvox, IPiFony and more.
The exhibits were low in number but high in innovation and real skills at networking effectively. We all remember exhibits where the booth personnel hide in a corner and never make eye contact. ;-)
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Bloggers' Breakfast During ISPCON on Nov 12th
Message me on Facebook for more details. What better idea to develop business, share research and development ideas, and get blogged about than to attend a Bloggers' Breakfast. And that is what DIDX.net is promoting. Don't miss the Bloggers' Breakfast at the St. Claire during ISPCON in San Jose, California.
Among those attending: 12 bloggers, reps from Women in VoIP, DIDXchange, Facebook, ISPCON, VoiceCon, and if we're lucky the coolest podcasters around Geekspeak.org!
(My IPOD is full of Geekspeak as well as DIDX interviews and VoIP Users Conference audio files. Sure makes waiting for anything a joy.)
Again, message me on Facebook for more details, and if you also want to attend ISPCON, go sign up now at http://www.ispcon.com.
... 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.
Among those attending: 12 bloggers, reps from Women in VoIP, DIDXchange, Facebook, ISPCON, VoiceCon, and if we're lucky the coolest podcasters around Geekspeak.org!
(My IPOD is full of Geekspeak as well as DIDX interviews and VoIP Users Conference audio files. Sure makes waiting for anything a joy.)
Again, message me on Facebook for more details, and if you also want to attend ISPCON, go sign up now at http://www.ispcon.com.
... 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.
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