On Friday, I had the pleasure of making a short appearance on the show “After Hours” on the Business News Network to talk about Fonolo. (BNN is like a Canadian version of CNBC.) Host Andrew Bell asked some great questions. Condensed version of the video is embedded below (about 4 minutes long). Full version here.
Archive for September, 2009
For Skype, going naked could freeze their cash cow
Published by September 17th, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsSkype announced last week that they were discontinuing their "Extras" program, which is a storefront that allows 3rd party developers to to extend on the Skype platform (i.e. Skype’s App Store). An immediate and very negative reaction from Skypohiles around the world lead the company to clarify that this was just a transition to […]
Skype announced on Friday that they were ending their “extras” program, which allowed 3rd party developers to market add-on components to the popular communications platform. This sparked a lot of negative commentary mainly saying “platforms win when there is a strong developer ecosystem”. I commented on the GigaOm post:
Facebook beat Myspace because of their […]
I attended the Internet Telephony Expo last week in Los Angeles. It was a terrific show as usual: I got to speak on a few panels, met some great people and got up to speed on industry trends.
Operators and Developers
I participated in a panel called "The Ecosystem of Application Developers". Alan Quayle moderated […]
