{"id":4963,"date":"2006-10-19T17:58:44","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T17:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/skype-journal-on-itexpo.html"},"modified":"2006-10-19T17:58:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T17:58:44","slug":"skype-journal-on-itexpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/skype-journal-on-itexpo.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype Journal on ITEXPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Wolf over at Skype Journal proudly tells me his blog is for suits and geeks and while I may not have recalled the two in the exact order and perhaps my memory is not as photographic as I would like, that was the gist of what he told me. I get the feeling Phil has a knack for seeing trends quickly and this seems to be a skill bloggers have innately or hopefully develop over time.<\/p>\n<p>One <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skypejournal.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/this_weeks_masthead_internet_telephony_e.php\">comment<\/a> he has made since ITEXPO is the lack of Skype products on the show floor. He is right and I see this changing rapidly as generation Y starts to spend more money with companies.<\/p>\n<p>Skype connectivity in call centers and throughout the enterprise will be essential.<\/p>\n<p>I can see a world where Skype becomes the 800 number replacement. Not an 800 number replacement. It is just that ubiquitous at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Soon ignoring Skype will be like ignoring e-mail 5 years ago or ignoring the web 8 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>That is my true feeling on the matter so Phil is onto something here and I expect to see much more Skype activity at future ITEXPOs. Tom <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/voip\/skype-journal-comments-on-itexpo.asp\">chimes in<\/a> as well with lucid comments on the matter as well.<\/p>\n<p>PS: One company positioned well to take advantage of the growing Skype trend is Pika Technologies and their <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/pika-introduces-skype-voip-to-asterisk.html\">Skype to Asterisk board<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Wolf over at Skype Journal proudly tells me his blog is for suits and geeks and while I may not have recalled the two in the exact order and perhaps my memory is not as photographic as I would like, that was the gist of what he told me. I get the feeling Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,191],"tags":[471,360,1510,1511,233,1512,416],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963"}],"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=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}