One of the highlights of the recent VON conference was getting to Interview Alex Saunders, blogger and CEO of VoIP company Iotum. The interview podcast is now available at the Voip User site, where we have the "Bending the Needle" podcast series:
http://www.voipuser.org/btn/
Alec now has his own Squawkbox podcast, which he records daily via the "Free Conference Calls" application that Iotum created for the Facebook platform. If you use Facebook, go over and take a look: http://apps.facebook.com/freeconference/landing
It's quite an endeavour recording a daily podcast, and this is quite an interesting social media experiment. Anyone can join in Squawkbox, so if you want to take part in a topical tech news discussion, why not sign up for one of Alec's podcasts?
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At VON last week it seemed that everywhere I went there were people videoing and taking snaps, and a lot of this material has been tagged and blogged, and facebooked and flickr'ed and is available online. Jeff Pulver suggested the tag VONX08, so use this if you're searching on Technorati or some such, this is what to look for.
One particular phenomenon this year is QIK. This is a service that allows you to live stream (via 3G, GPRS or WiFi) up to the server, where QIK users can view live online, and then the video is stored so that you can tag it and leave it for posterity. Jeff used this to good effect a number of times, for example at his social media breakfast, but several people also caught Ken Camp proposing to Sheryl Brooker, which Maxroam's Pat Phelan has posted on his blog. QIK is also enjoying attention from Robert Scoble at the moment, who appeared on stage with Jeff and some other video service companies like Ustream.tv and Seesmic. Scoble was videoing the session from his place on the podium, and althoug I haven't found it yet, I imagine that this is also online.
I dabbled with QIK myself (this works nicely on Nokia smartphones), and uploaded a couple of short videos from the VoIP User dinner.
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This year's Fall VON Conference (Voice/Video on the Net) in Boston is for the first time introducing an "unconference" track where the attendees decide the conference agenda. The new "Innovator's Track" has a number of rough categories marked out, but the actual agenda will be set up on the day, with telco mashup king Thomas Howe leading the "agenda bashing".
Sessions will feature panel members from "Telco 2.0" companies like Codemecca, Truphone, iotum, Mobivox and GrandCentral. I'm pleased to report also that I've been asked back to VON to moderate the panel on New Services with Old Lines.
VON runs from October 29th to November 1st, and the conference agenda can be found here.
First published at Blognation.com
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