{"id":7257,"date":"2008-09-16T18:58:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T18:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/itexpo_west_2008_skype_keynote.html"},"modified":"2008-09-16T18:58:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T18:58:39","slug":"itexpo-west-2008-skype-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/itexpo-west-2008-skype-keynote.html","title":{"rendered":"ITEXPO West 2008 Skype Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathon Christensen General Manager for Video and Audio at Skype gave a great keynote with a topic which was surprising &#8212; VoIP is dead. Wow. The point is video and other forms of communications &#8212; presence &#8212; etc, are becoming as important or more than voice. At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\">ITEXPO<\/a> West 2008 in Los Angeles today I learned Skype uses open source to terminate calls and they are also experimenting with stereo phone calls.<\/p>\n<p>I have written about stereo VoIP for half a decade and finally, Skype will embrace it. It is worth pointing out Nortel too has embraced the conept which is why they <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/att\/nortel-buys-diamondware.html\">picked up<\/a> DiamondWare recently. Here are some photos of the standing room only keynote from the show.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline;\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/035.html','popup','width=1600,height=1200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/035.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" style=\"\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"035.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/035-thumb-600x450.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"display: inline;\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/034.html','popup','width=1600,height=1200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/034.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" style=\"\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"034.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/034-thumb-600x450.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"display: inline;\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/033.html','popup','width=1600,height=1200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/033.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" style=\"\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"033.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/033-thumb-600x450.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"display: inline;\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/030.html','popup','width=1200,height=1369,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/030.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"684\" width=\"600\" style=\"\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"030.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/030-thumb-600x684.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathon Christensen General Manager for Video and Audio at Skype gave a great keynote with a topic which was surprising &#8212; VoIP is dead. Wow. The point is video and other forms of communications &#8212; presence &#8212; etc, are becoming as important or more than voice. At ITEXPO West 2008 in Los Angeles today I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,171,181,199,189,203,118,177,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257"}],"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=7257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}