by Garrett Smith
Hey, you're new around here aren't ya? Did you know you can get every post FREE in your EMAIL or via RSS? Oh and if you're a Twit like me you can follow me on Twitter HERE. Enjoy the post.
If you’re looking for more frequent news and insight from me, head on over to the VoIP Insider.It’s where I’ve been doing the bulk of my blogging to date.
The site features several industry voices and is growing by leaps and bounds. Plus there’s a lively community of commentors and frequent contests featuring some of the hottest new products on the market.
I’ll still be blogging here, but it will be at my normal sporadic pace.
by Garrett Smith
I’m consistently impressed by the pedigree of reader here at Smith On VoIP. Some of the best and the brightest in the VoIP industry lurk here. Recently a few of you have stepped out of the shadows becoming active participants in the many discussions started here.
One of them is Tsahi Levent-Levi. Tsahi is the product’s manager and systems architect at Radvision. He powers the VoIP Survivor blog and the Talking Video blog over at TMC. He brings unique perspective and tons of smarts to the cutting edge elements of the industry.
He also adds a lot of value to this site in his comments he leaves here.
Earlier today Tsahi sent me an email with a request for a way to receive email notifications when a discussion that he was participating in was updated with additional thoughts from one of you.
What a great idea! How did I forget to do that I thought?
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by Garrett Smith
Well - that’s what I get for being nice.
It seems that rather than having a positive impact on the industry my declaration of “helping those who need help” has brought out the worse in everyone. As usual most of the population doesn’t get it.
I think for now I am going to put the plans on hold. After some of the crap I’ve recieved over the last day or two in regards to this I’ll pass on a “public” service and keep it private.
For those of you who offered to help - thank you. For those of you who contacted me looking for work - I’m still here to help (and will).
by Garrett Smith
You’re no dummy - you know the economy sucks.
I know it’s not great too - but I’m an optimist. Today - unfortunately - I got a sour taste of our spoiled reality.
In a span of less than three hours I learned that a half dozen colleagues at a variety of companies had been decommissioned by their company (how about that for a happy new year?).
But - I’m an optimist (and I have an idea).
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by Garrett Smith
In what has been a rather bizarre chain of events, I went from not having Internet access at home (mostly like due to our first REAL snow of the year) yesterday, to not being able to access Gmail (today…who knows).
Yes, I realize that there are more important things in the world, but these two little glitches have but the Near Future of VoIP series on hiatus until I have internet access and Gmail working at the same time. Hopefully everything is back to normal tomorrow.
by Garrett Smith
A quick PSA. I will be making a public appearance (it’s been a while). Next week I will be in Orlando, attending ScanSource’s IMPACT NOW event. If you are going to be there, please contact me as I really enjoy meeting readers and other passer-by’s. If you are going to be in Orlando and would like to meet-up, please get in touch.
by Garrett Smith
I know you like FREE.
Gregely over at Indafon.com, a complete web-based communication service, which integrates Flash-based SIP telephony, Jabber IM services and contact management all from your web browser, has been bugging me for the last few weeks to offer all of you FREE calling credits when you sign-up for Indafon.com. I have been playing around with Indafon for the last couple of hours and it is pretty slick. It has a great user interface and the rates are affordable. If you are a browser centic communicator then you will find Indafon.com very agreeable.
Now, back to those FREE minutes. In order to get some FREE minutes when you sign-up for Indafon (it’s free), enter the code “smithrocks” in the exclusive promo box on the sign up page.
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