{"id":7956,"date":"2009-05-20T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T09:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/get_your_voip_avatar_ready.html"},"modified":"2009-05-20T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T09:10:18","slug":"get-your-voip-avatar-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/get-your-voip-avatar-ready.html","title":{"rendered":"Get Your VoIP Avatar Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even before it was trendy, I was a fan of 3D HD voice – In fact back in 2004 I featured<\/a> DiamondWare onstage at ITEXPO in Miami as a killer app. Over the years DiamondWare began integrating its technology into a virtual world and eventually the company was sold to Nortel and became part of web.alive<\/a> which I covered<\/a> here.<\/p>\n

My last visit to the Ottawa campus of Nortel consisted of meetings with the tech team who told me they eventually see avatars everywhere – on cell phones, computers, etc.<\/p>\n

Since that conversation I have been looking for signs of avatar\/communications integration and I did compile a list of vendors<\/a> who had an avatar strategy.<\/p>\n

But here is the reality – if we are going to start seeing more avatar integration in telecom it has to come from our kids – just like text messaging, Twitter, Facebook and lots of other interesting technologies we once considered oddities.<\/p>\n

Recently I learned that Second Life – the popular consumer based avatar laden community generates 15 billion minutes<\/a> of web voice – or VoIP calls. And this reminded me of the popularity in the early days of Twitter and Facebook.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen if avatars will become mainstream but I get the feeling that this technology may just follow Twitter as a hot new thing everyone jumps on in years to come.<\/p>\n

If you are looking to take advantage of avatar\/communications integration the question you need to ask is whether you want to get involved now, before it becomes hip and trendy or wait for Oprah<\/a> and Ashton<\/a> to jump in first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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