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March 27, 2008
The Hand That Fed You
Okay, lets cope with the rumors. For the time being pulvermedia is restructuring.
In theory no one should be noticing these changes, but people like to talk. Some just like to hear themselves.
Its unfortunate.
Look at the industry and show me a company that has not gone through a major transition at least once.
VON had a lot of redeeming qualities.
And their are lots of people who want to see VON fail.
Its probably never a good idea to let the outside world see the sausage being made.
If you are reading the negative about what is going on here are some rules.
1) Consider the source
2) Consider the sources source
3) Consider the fact that the blogosphere has lots of people who want to show they are in the know.
Many of which have proven they aren't.
The people in the discussion are above my pay grade.
They will duke it out for a while and then we will see what happens.
This you can believe.
The story has not concluded.
Posted by carl at 05:59 PM | Comments (4)
March 14, 2008
VON Presentations
The Quickest Way to find the presentations at Fall VON is just a social clique away.
VON attendees are going to find a webpage to navigate the slides updated on the "NING" thing every nite. We are going to have them available while the show is going on for the delegates and nightly on NING. If you are not a member, its good to join now. It's also a good way to connect up to the community of attendees more directly. If you need anymore specific help please send a note to carl.ford@pulvermedia.com
Posted by carl at 06:36 PM | Comments (0)
March 06, 2008
A billion there vs. a Billion here
Sometimes the conversations you have with people are prophetic in nature. Talking to a friend who is doing a consulting gig with a vendor, we talked about the need for new infrastructure. Particularly to match how people are going to expect to see the Wireless Internet.
IMHO, You can call it Unified Communication, FMC or anything else but fundamentally its an issue of delivering data to an any to any world. And I am not expecting that peer to peer is the right answer for things that are still head end oriented in nature.
With att’s announcement that they planned for a $1B dollar build out of the International structure, I was delighted to see that statement. The issues with supporting the network needs of the future are somewhat more confusing than they were just 15 years ago.
Its no longer a simple matter of pipes and valves (as a cable operator friend used to say). Now we have the issues of caching, streaming, smart edges, and dumber pipes.
Its still about the Internet but the hour glass figure that converges on IP sometimes looks like the stacks are trying to widen the waist. For example, does an application need to know the QoS it gets before the service is set up? Or can a best effort network be the answer. Its trickier than you expect because the people I respect are in disharmony about these issues. And even at the IETF we have efforts being made to get some presession QoS metrics in the network routing table. It should be interesting to watch.
If you have a stake in the race for new services, it may be worth your while to listen to att at Spring VON.
Background:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120471665116813469.html?mod=index_to_businesses
Posted by carl at 08:32 AM | Comments (0)
March 04, 2008
Dear Bill, I now have a MAC
I am not someone who adopts technology for the cool. After all it took me half a decade to finally get a sidekick. And between IM on the sidekick and my blackberry I can replicate about 70% of my desktop experience while on the road. Often to my wife’s chagrin (since I may occasionally read a message while driving).
So why am I on a MacBook?
The strange but true answer is that the power supply pin on my last 2 machines broke. In coping with this I now have another place where the lack of Interoperability drives me nuts. But I digress.
So here I am with a Leopard, where I am changing my spots. I was told to load Vista on the machine. But I am in no hurry. My first goal is to get use to have a single mouse button.
It’s the little things that make the difference between kewl and cold.
I may sing the praises of the wow factor here, but for today. I am glad the machine is working.
Posted by carl at 10:42 AM | Comments (1)