{"id":3507,"date":"2005-07-27T15:14:46","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T15:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/note-to-self-dont-upset-tom-keating.html"},"modified":"2005-07-27T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2005-07-27T15:14:46","slug":"note-to-self-dont-upset-tom-keating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/note-to-self-dont-upset-tom-keating.html","title":{"rendered":"Note To Self: Don\u2019t Upset Tom Keating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">OK OK, although I wasn\u2019t involved in not sending Tom to TMC\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voipdeveloper.com\/\">VoIP Developer<\/a> event perhaps I deleted him from the list and didn\u2019t realize it. Either way, sorry Tom\u2026 I didn\u2019t know you would willingly go to a venue where there wasn\u2019t a blackjack table \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Seriously though, Tom\u2019s post on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/voip\/voip-developer-conference-features-impressive-companies.asp\">VoIP Developer<\/a> is right on. Although Tom decided to compare us to other events in the market including Internet Telephony and VON\u2026 I see the market differently. There is room for all our events and they all serve different purposes.<\/p>\n<p>VoIP Developer was designed to be a much purer show where partnering and development choices can be made without thousands of non-technical people running around (without pocket-protectors no less!).<\/p>\n<p>This event is purely about finding tools and toolkits you need to develop killer VoIP applications. No other event is so pure and has such a targeted mission.<\/p>\n<p><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">We launched this show because of demand from our exhibitors and attendees and the first show sold out. In our larger venue we have an attendee database which is tracking around 4 times higher than last year<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>This looks like it will be another spectacular TMC event with some <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/voip\/voip-developer-conference-features-impressive-companies.asp\">great companies<\/a> in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to see you there!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK OK, although I wasn\u2019t involved in not sending Tom to TMC\u2019s VoIP Developer event perhaps I deleted him from the list and didn\u2019t realize it. Either way, sorry Tom\u2026 I didn\u2019t know you would willingly go to a venue where there wasn\u2019t a blackjack table \ud83d\ude09 Seriously though, Tom\u2019s post on VoIP Developer is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}