VoIP blog echoes
With September coming, I expected VoIP news to take up again but it seems it’s still as slow as ever. While browsing through the majority of my VoIP related newsfeeds, I found out that (a) Iotum launched a conferencing application for Facebook, (b) Iotum updated their conferencing application for Facebook a day later. Now (a) may be midlly interesting, (b) certainly is not, why is this being echoed across the blogosphere like this?
I try to avoid consumer VoIP news on this blog, because I don’t think its relevant to our audience but it’s frustrating to have to wade through post after post after post, just to find out that nothing significantly has happened. Does this mean that there’s just nothing happening, or are there just too many blogs?
One thing’s sure, the marketing team at Iotum did their job well. And to think that Ken Camp promised us news would be picking up again.
September 6th, 2007 at 19:59 CEST
The answer is: both. There’s a lot of blogs and there’s not that much going on. I think if Facebook weren’t involved, this wouldn’t have gotten as much play as it did. A useful VoIP-related application in Facebook is big news to us.
I’m finding that business and “personal” are becoming very intermixed. Not sure about the rest of the world.
September 7th, 2007 at 10:25 CEST
I do think there significant differences between consumer and business use of VoIP. Consumers generally are looking for cheaper or free calls while businesses are trying to increase productivity, then reduce costs.
Businesses on the other hand benefit much more from unified messaging, elimination of playing voicemail tag, software application integration, etc. than they do from chafing of the last few cents of the price of a phone call.