Aswath Weblog http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/ Musing on telecommunications industry and other sundries en-us 2008-05-08T03:28:46-05:00 EnThinnai at LaunchPad http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000366.html I e submitted EnThinnai for Enterprise 2.0 LaunchPad competition. Please consider voting for me by visiting their site. The pitch is embedded below:... Sundry aswath 2008-05-08T03:28:46-05:00 Comments on ecomm2008 http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000365.html Last month, a week before VON there was another conference - ecomm2008. Last week the slides used by the speakers were putup on slideshare.net. I tweeted my thoughts as I reviewed the presentations. The following is a compendium of those... IP Communications aswath 2008-04-15T05:29:19-05:00 Now Tweeting as @aswath http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000364.html For the past few days I have been tweeting as @aswath. Given its nature, I am finding that I am able to share more thoughts and listen to more people. I hope you will follow me there. But I will... Personal aswath 2008-04-15T05:08:13-05:00 What Comes After AORTA http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000363.html This morning Alec Saunders talked about the effects of pricing plans in wireless data market. His point was aggressive pricing will induce increased use. In that context he mentioned a term introduced by Mark Anderson. Mark claimed that the chief... IP Communications aswath 2008-03-31T23:28:39-05:00 Replacing IVR Systems http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000362.html I am certain that each one of us have horror stories relating to IVR maze. To ease this, many IVR systems allow look-ahead dialing. But then many administrators ask us to listen to all the choices before selecting one because... Telephony aswath 2008-03-29T14:28:21-05:00 Distributed Social Directory is the Real Trouble http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000361.html I posted the following entry at EnThinnai blog. Please visit there to post your comments.... IP Communications aswath 2008-03-29T12:51:14-05:00 OpenID Providers that Don’t Consume are not Evil http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000360.html I posted the following at EnThinnai blog. Please post your comments there.... OpenID aswath 2008-03-24T18:42:03-05:00 Legal Interception and IP Communications http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000359.html Periodically this topic of should we extend legal intercept capability to IP Communications is raised and more often than not the slant of the argument is that IP Communications should be free of any regulatory requirement. Invariably one of the... IP Communications aswath 2008-02-17T22:42:00-05:00 Poetic Justice http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000358.html "I think that the vision of the early SIP founders has been largely unreal in the SIP world. SIP is typically just used for this mundane trunkling application like the one we have or sending calls between two networks and... VoIP aswath 2008-02-06T19:24:33-05:00 "Very Good!", so said the white man http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000357.html In today's Washington Post, there is a story that ostensibly describes Indians' obsession with fair skin. But a telling quote is from Riya Ray, 23, a dark-skinned Indian model: "My pictures are routinely Photoshopped to make me look a bit... Sundry aswath 2008-01-27T11:32:22-05:00 Home iPhone http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000356.html A skeptical Alec writes about an effort to build a home phone that John Sculley of OpenPeak positioned it as the iPhone for the home phoneline. He thinks such high-end phones have not fared well historically. Past experience suggests to... Telephony aswath 2008-01-09T11:53:19-05:00 Robert (Scoble) Gandhi? http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000355.html Yesterday Robert Scoble was in the news more than usual. He used a toll provided by Plaxo to scrape Facebook to retrieve his friends’ data. Since Facebook considers this to be against their Terms of Service, they blocked his account,... Social Networking aswath 2008-01-04T16:05:50-05:00 Get Well, Om http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000354.html Today I came to know that last week Om had a heart attack. But he is recovering fast. I hope he is back at his self soon. He has been a good friend and an early promoter of my writings.... Personal aswath 2008-01-04T03:05:40-05:00 Happy New Year! http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000353.html This is to wish all of “You” a Happy New Year! Last year was an interesting year because of my involvement in EnThinnai. Postings were fewer than usual, but some posts saw more traffic than usual. Thanks for continuing to... Sundry aswath 2008-01-01T08:14:44-05:00 Meaningless Exercise in Ranking VoIP Blogs http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000352.html Periodically somebody or other publishes their list of blogs focused on VoIP. Originally Jeff Pulver used to publish one which used to be very inclusive. You just have to inform him for your blog to be included in that list.... Sundry aswath 2007-12-30T23:10:30-05:00