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VoIP: Dead or Alive? Conference call organized by Sheryl Breuker
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For background please refer to: http://stardustglobalventures.com/?p=326

This call will address some simple questions for the panelists:

1. Do you truly and honestly believe VoIP is a vital, growing technology that's of any interest to customers?
2. In ten words or less, what do you think the single hottest niche segment within the unified communications space is for 2009? Depending how many we get, we may discuss these in more detail, because I think this is where the meat of the conversation we're circling around lies.
3. In ten words or less, what do you think is the single most talked about but unlikely to drive real change and innovation technology in 2009? Where do you think time, effort and money are being wasted?
4. What one company or service do you think will take the industry by storm in 2009?
5. What one spectacular flameout do you think is coming in the industry in 2009?

We'll address at least three of those five questions to be selected as the conversation progresses and time permitting.


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Ken Camp said:
Hey I'm jazzed that you got here Loe. Thanks so much!
Leo Carroll said:
Thanks Sheryl / Ken. who was my fellow Vermonter?
Susan Cramer said:
Ken needs to go golfing with his bandana
ooops then I need to talk all those things I said back, I thought it was the wrong guy all this time ;-)
Ken Camp said:
It's all bullshit!
Mark Hewitt said:
thanks sheryl for the call
Ken Camp said:
I think it's great fun to impersonate Ken
Susan Cramer said:
Still learning
Ken Camp said:
thank YOU!!! (this is Alec)
Rob Adler said:
thanks folks
William Volk said:
thank you
William Volk said:
ah, if only Nokia has marketing,
Ken Camp said:
Like runnnig Freeswitch on a Nokika N800
Susan Cramer said:
Migrating
William Volk said:
the impact of a national broadband initative
ok I need to hang up too. It's been fun!
Ken Camp said:
We will do this again a year from now.
Susan Cramer said:
Mobility is dangerous !
Ken Camp said:
Thanks Dan!!
William Volk said:
mobility
William Volk said:
ok, sure
Dan York said:
I have to drop off... sorry... it's been a great call
regulatory capture
Susan Cramer said:
William Volk said:
Ken, I'm with you. I have it ... but I try to ignore it
part of the plumbing problems that still exist today are with the "permitting process" to take the analogy further
Ken Camp said:
Plaxo is already dead. It died before acquisition. It's irrelevant and ignored in huge numbers.
William Volk said:
yeah, Plaxo isn't going to die. So sad
Susan Cramer said:
Who owns Comcast?
William Volk said:
call it "intelligent calling" ... whatever
Mark Hewitt said:
By the way you realize that Plaxo was purchased by Comcast
Chambers ischasing everything video - IPTV, STB and raw bit pushers
William Volk said:
linksys was a good stratgey
Hi Susan. I am on Plaxo and I just don't have time for it.
Susan Cramer said:
Where do I learn more about Plaxo ?
Leo Carroll said:
oh yes, momentum is with avaya
Rob Adler said:
WiMax
Mark Hewitt said:
I have been using Plaxo since early beta - just wish they would get their Google sync working again. IT's been broke for almost a year
Susan Cramer said:
Hi Jeanette !
Thank you Sheryl! You have a great voice. And, you maintain control. You should do radio...
William Volk said:
maybe because I am on a Mac
Susan Cramer said:
I have no idea what it is, but someone asked me to join
Ken Camp said:
I love Plaxo ;)
William Volk said:
I use Plaxo but I HATE IT
Susan Cramer said:
More than 20 million people use Plaxo to keep in touch with the people they care about.
Ken Camp said:
No I don't
Blyk
William Volk said:
Sprint
William Volk said:
the "ad supported mobile" thing in the UK is working out I was told
Mark Hewitt said:
jaxtr
William Volk said:
"too large to fail" LOL
Ken Camp said:
Vonage passed spectacular two years ago.
William Volk said:
Windows Mobile - most of the handset players jumping on Android
Ken Camp said:
Good call Leo!
William Volk said:
hahaha
William Volk said:
hahaha
Leo Carroll said:
windows mobile?
William Volk said:
oh yeah, under 30 - mobile phone is IT
Ken Camp said:
Put your money where your mouth is Alec! Go for it!
or what it cost to send a sms - will voip help that
Ken Camp said:
To a certain extent Bill... but recent studies suggest that young folks value their phones more than TV
Mark Hewitt said:
OK who is typing
William Volk said:
what Sherri and Wally won't give up is their cable TV
Ken Camp said:
Phone calls cost zero per minute. ARPU based on minutes from anyone anywhere is flawed and doomed to mediocrity at best and failure at worst
Ken Camp said:
This is fun impersonating Ken!
Ken Camp said:
exactly Bill.
William Volk said:
Sherri Starbucks and Wally Wallmart are using cheap pre-paid mobile and thinking about junking the POTS line
Ken Camp said:
We're talking to her tomorrow evening Jim
Ken Camp said:
I think using VoIP anywhere in the value proposition statement or lead marketing material is a failure. Focus on the solutoin> VoIP is nothing ut "oh by the way, we do that in the background"
Jim Courtney said:
I just interviewed Truphone's CEO and she did not use the word "VoIP" during the entire conversation but I will be posting about some new Truphone conversation services later this evening.
no money in the call anymore, its all about the value to get to the call and how to make even more value after the call
Ken Camp said:
Truphone does every day Dan. LOTS of companies. They focus on VoIP with the first 5 words which devlaues their real solution
Ken Camp said:
Ravi (this is Alec) I think we're just starting to see this stuff.
William Volk said:
cash flow or die
Dan York said:
Who is really talking "VoIP" in this market anyway?
Mark Hewitt said:
Alec, This is ravi shankar(omfut), have a question for you.. When u say developers,developers, what is the acceptance rate of these platforms. I dont think ribbit made a killer revenue out of their platform, they had a pretty good platform to build rich communication application. So what do u think of all these new platform players like tringme,twilio,ifbyphone. Where are the killer apps that are being built from these platform API's. So whats your view on this
William Volk said:
also, the 'pure' VOIP plays? No more VC money for you!
Mark Hewitt said:
Yes Prepaid 'Anything"
William Volk said:
and prepaid mobile phones
William Volk said:
Sure, the 'market' is going mobile ... but Joe Sixpack is buying MagicJack
Mark Hewitt said:
Web 2.0
I'm going to drop in about 10 minutes
Ken Camp said:
Thanks Todd. I think it's the same as the Telco 2.0 problem I wrote about. It's spun to the spin doctors and not the customer. It isn't about solving problems at all. It's simply spinning whatever BS you can spin and ANYTHING 2.0 that isn't a software progam is simply spin doctor BS.
Ken Camp said:
am I still Ken?
Ken Camp said:
Oh... this is alec... now I'm Ken!
Ken Camp said:
Never mind...
Just press the button over your head
I can mute my line?
's all or nothing :(
Mute of any sort it
do it because you can, nothing new....
@Ken you have just defined the 2.0 zeitgeist problem that is partially to blame even for this mess
Mark Hewitt said:
looks like self mute is not working
?? sorry... isn't the market going mobile Bill?
Ken Camp said:
Amen. The general public doesn't want VoIP. They want cheap phone callse that work. They can get that from Verizon on cellular.
Ken Camp said:
I think the developers are still key, but the model is broken right now Todd.
Please mute yourselves if you do NOT have your hand raised. The control...really is NOT with me darnit and I was so excited. :)
Ken Camp said:
I agree with Todd Spraggins. Mashup is so 2007. Time to get off API and mashup, and that implies develipers. There are tooo many developers in the world mashing up szero value that solves no problem because it does something cool. Screw that. Doing something because we can is the past. We need to get off it.
ask people to self mute
Alec I have to leave everyone unmuted in order to make this work at this point
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