eComm Notes part 3

Continuing my Virtual eComm attendance, I’m browsing through several more presentations.  Ordinarily I’d write my thoughts quickly in Twitter and be done with it, but sometimes it’s nice to have the longer flow and easier format of a blog post.  Plus I can look back later and find it again.

First stop is Alec Saunder’s presentation, titled “Voice 2.0 Applications in a Mobile World”.  Basic idea continues on his Manifesto theme that voice is a baseline and that apps are key.  Slide 4 (the “future” of 2005) looks interesting: about the long tail of opportunities in online communities, but the title makes me wonder if he thinks there is now a new future?  Unfortunately the following slide is a video (not available in the Slideshare deck), so I couldn’t tell if he meant more.  But while I was there, I signed up for the Premium version of his new application, Calliflower.  (30 days free – normally $50).

Then I looked at Mobivox’ Peter Diedrich: discussion and demo of CRM over Voice.

Trevor Baca (Jaduka): How to Do Things with Voice is a tough presentation to see without the presenter.  It’s mostly photos of objects and situations that have something to do with communication.

Mark Spencer from Digium has a presentation on the Skype+Asterisk beta and the new chan_skype use cases: lets Skype calls integrate with existing Asterisk call queue.  Claimed he’s going to start a public beta soon.

Peter Ecclesine from Cisco on White Space.  He predicts the rise of database gateways that associate your device location and your contact info.  Look at http://showmywhitespace.com to see how much of the new free white space spectrum is available in your area.

…more notes later as I have time.