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| Peter Radizeski of RAD-INFO, Inc. talking telecom, Cloud, VoIP, CLEC, and The Channel.

Web 2.0

How Do They Avoid Being Just the Dumb Pipe

February 11, 2010

On LinkedIn there was a question in the Telecom Executives Business Network group: "How can a Telco Service Provider value chain defend itself from the attack by the emerging "Cloud" services? My understanding is that the emerging "cloud" services remove value-add and differentiation from the Telco service providers which are cornered to act just as the bit-stream providers (especially for the retail market)."

My answer to that was as follows:

Most telco carriers worry about becoming a Dumb Pipe. Isenberg told them this would happen.

Posted in Internet, Web 2.0, apps, bandwidth, broadband, cloud computing, linkedin, telco, wireline

SayHired at Startup Telephony Camp

January 29, 2010

Screening candidates that send in resumes is a tedious task. I get to do that when my clients are hiring new salespeople. It's a time-consuming task. Really,  resumes don't mean anything because how many aren't embellished?

Anyway, at the 1st Startup Telephony Camp which Larry Lisser ran, we had a chance to hear from 4 start-ups - SayHired, Close Haul Communications, Fonolo, and Pebb.ly. 

So I know of a few companies looking for marketing, sales and channel people.



Posted in Web 2.0, voip

Developing Profitable Web 2.0 Solutions

August 20, 2009

I will be moderating a developer panel at IT EXPO WEST on Developing Profitable Web 2.0 Solutions. The panleists are from Ifbyphone, Voxeo and Intelepeer.

This is a Dev panel so we will be talking about The Styles or Ways to go about Developing Apps, including How To Create an App using the API. We will basically keep to the core of the description: "Attendees will learn how Web 2.0 allows organizations to gracefully migrate expensive legacy telephony to a lower cost software model without disrupting existing operations."

Join us on Thursday, 09/03/09at 9:30 AM

Posted in Web 2.0, expo, voip

What About AOL?

April 29, 2009

Tonight, Steve Case was on twitter tweeting, "Sad AOL went from being Internet pioneer/leader to also-ran. But still more there then most understand; hopeful can return to greatness." My replies were as follows: what they need are some young, hungry start-up execs, but what they will get is a stodgy exec that wants to cost cut and ride it out.

Why do I say that? Look at Embarq. Hesse had a couple months to pick a team and formulate a plan for the soon-to-be spun off Embarq.

Posted in Internet, Web 2.0, apps, broadband, im/chat

Why Security Will Be Priority 1

April 16, 2009

As I skim the Verizon Business 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report (PDF) to find that "295 million records were compromised and there were 90 confirmed breaches last year", I think where is the security? The Intrusion Detection Systems, the firewalls, the vigilant admins. Oh, wait, most companies don't have that. What else is missing?
Posted in Web 2.0, security

YouTube, Goodspeed and Brogan

March 31, 2009

So social media expert, Chris Brogan, blogs about Michael Goodspeed being wronged by YouTube. Since Google owns YouTube, this is the beginning of Google becomes the Evil Empire.  I've been watching this happen for a while. When GrandCentral was upgrading to Googel Voice in waves it was a bitchfest on Twitter because people had to wait. *gasp*. They had to wait like 10 days to get access to an upgrade to a free service.
Posted in Internet, Marketing, Web 2.0, off topic, social network, twitter

VoiceCon and Other Trips This Month

March 30, 2009

VoiceCon is in Orlando this week. I will be driving over on April 1 on my way to another conference in Deerfield Beach.

Next week, I will be in New Orleans for WordCamp, a conference for Wordpress bloggers. I have clients in the area, so I am looking forward to seeing them and meeting Chris Schultz in person. That guy is doing a lot of good things in NOLA.

Then April 22-24 I am in Dallas for a CEO Summit.

If you are in the area, let's meet up. Call me on GrandCentral/GoogleVoice at (786) 228-7039 or send me a tweet @radinfo.
Posted in Web 2.0, conferences

Jaduka lands Mr. Mashup

March 4, 2009

A quick congratulations to Thomas Howe who took the CEO position at Jaduka. Thomas Howe is called Mr. Mashup by Telephony magazine because he not only evangelizes about mash-ups (and API's) but has won a number of contests including the Broadsoft mash-up award last year.
Posted in Web 2.0, voip

IBM Finds Telco Changing with SoComm

February 27, 2009

IBM

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  has a study out about how Social networking has co-opted many minutes of traditional talking.

 

People are communicating more things to more people than ever before, and not just by phone anymore. Internet-enabled communication models are gaining audience, attention and market share at the expense of traditional telecommunication providers (Telcos).
Posted in Web 2.0, social network, telco, telecommunications, twitter, unified communications, wireless, wireline

A Very Online White House

January 19, 2009

If there was ever a demonstration of how a government could use Web 2.0 (user generated content), it has to be the Obama group. Here's 10 Online tools that the Obama Administration is using to connect to the People.  I can see why he wants to keep his Blackberry.
Posted in Web 2.0, politics, social network
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