Smith On VoIP

Followers of my blog know that my frequency has died down considerably over the last two months. After two year of posting three or four times everyday, I am now down to three or four times per week…at best.
In many ways having a widely read successful blog is a catch 22.
The more success you have, […]

Another Visionary Joins the Blogosphere
One of my favorite people to interview in the VoIP industry, Chris Lyman, has started blogging. Chris is the mind behind Fonality and is leading the growth and development of the trixbox open source telephony platform. Chris new blog talks about the company, the industry and the business of growing a […]

Marketers Create Products, Engineers Build Them
Andy Abramson has an excellent post on innovation and why some companies fail. I find that the number one problem with most technology start-ups is that they are started by engineers, not marketers. Engineers are wired differently and because of this they encounter many of the issues you describe above.
No […]

A bit off topic, but I was reading the latest edition of DIRECT, a direct marketing publication, and found an advertisement by a company that is selling the customer data of Hello Direct, an online retailer/cataloger of telecommunications equipment. Now I find it a bit odd that a company that is still in business would open […]

Jeff Pulver started a little game of VoIP Blog tag, and it took but a day for someone to tag me. Thanks to Leanne of The VoIP Girl, I am obligated to tell all of you 5 things (you probably do not want to know) about myself that you would never know, unless, well, you […]

Back in the early 1970s, when 8mm and super 8mm “home” movie cameras became really popular, a tradition started where families would document their lives, often focusing on the kids. Reels would be processed, and copies sometimes sent off to grandparents, etc. Just speculating, but I’m wondering if, with the increasing use of free video-calling […]

Wow! I could have never imagined this type of response to my Top 30 VoIP Blogs post. One blogger, Luca Filigheddu has created a Top 30 VoIP Blogs list using the Technorati rating system. In his post, Luca asked,
“what criteria had been used to create the (Smith On VoIP) list?”
Here is my response to his […]