David Beckemeyer, CEO and Founder of TelEvolution has an excellent rant wondering where the Voice 2.0 developeres are. David's company productes a very cool ATA-type device called the PhoneGnome that he has allowed developers to write apps for.
David rants, "PhoneGnome has offered a free API for almost a year now. But where are the innovators?" He does mention that Iotum, one of the leading Voice 2.0 companies, has developed for the PhoneGnome, but opines "where are the rest?".
While David obviously has a vested/conflict interest in sparking some controversy about why developers haven't been breaking down his door to develop for the PhoneGnome product, he has a valid point. Where are the Voice 2.0 developers?
Well, if I may suggest David (with a vested/conflict of interest of my own), TMC's 4th Annual Communications Developer Conference (formerly VoIP Developer Conference) is just a few months away. It's focused on Voice 2.0 developers, and is being held May 15-17, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Santa Clara, California. It's a much more technical audience that ITEXPO or VON, so it might be the target audience you're looking for.
David rants, "PhoneGnome has offered a free API for almost a year now. But where are the innovators?" He does mention that Iotum, one of the leading Voice 2.0 companies, has developed for the PhoneGnome, but opines "where are the rest?".
While David obviously has a vested/conflict interest in sparking some controversy about why developers haven't been breaking down his door to develop for the PhoneGnome product, he has a valid point. Where are the Voice 2.0 developers?
Well, if I may suggest David (with a vested/conflict of interest of my own), TMC's 4th Annual Communications Developer Conference (formerly VoIP Developer Conference) is just a few months away. It's focused on Voice 2.0 developers, and is being held May 15-17, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Santa Clara, California. It's a much more technical audience that ITEXPO or VON, so it might be the target audience you're looking for.
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Not sure why some one would want to develop for PhoneGnome? I cant see what the API offers developers.
I think one of the points is a practical path to deploying an app to real customers quickly and actually collecting revenue. Looking at http://www.phonegnome.com/developers.html it suggests that a developer's third-party service/feature can be integrated and offered for sale very rapidly to the existing PhoneGnome subscribers. The iotum app was apparently integrated in just a few weeks.
It looks like a Google Adsense type model where the app developer gets to benefit from the overall PhoneGnome system that's already built and deployed, to make money quickly with minimal effort.
I guess the turn around question is, what is the down-side? Why not use PhoneGnome platform to roll out a service quickly? It doesn't stop you from doing it multiple other ways too.