Voxeo Talks

Where is development of communications applications going? What have the trends in development been? What are future trends? What will the platforms be that people use? At the Emerging Communications Conf (eComm) in June 2011, Voxeo CEO Jonathan Taylor gave a great presentation about how Voxeo got started, where app development has come from and where it is going. Enjoy!

What is the future of voice, video, text and other real-time communications technologies? Where is the innovation happening? What does our communication future look like?

That was the topic of a video interview by Chris Pirillo between VoIP industry veteran Jeff Pulver and Voxeo CEO Jonathan Taylor. Conducted using a Google+ Hangout, Chris described on his own site what the interview was all about and then made the video available on YouTube:

It was an enjoyable interview to watch live … and great to hear what Jonathan, Jeff and Chris had to say on the topic.

Have you visited the Voxeo YouTube channel lately? A bit ago we received word that our YouTube account was granted permission to upload videos longer than the normal 15 minutes:

Given that, we’ve started to upload our past Developer Jam Sessions and Best Practices webinars. The beauty of YouTube is that the video is automagically converted to formats that work on different computers and devices, including tablets and smartphones.

Some of the longer videos we’ve now put online include:

• Taking Customer Service to the Cloud (Webinar with Voxeo, Chrysalis and Daniel Hong from Ovum)
• Best Practices in Deploying Communication Applications: Cloud vs On-Premises vs Hybrid
• How Do You Hear Me Now? The Power of Wideband (HD) Audio
• IPv6 and How It Impacts Communication Applications

We’ll be uploading other past webinars and will also be uploading new sessions up to the YouTube account.

Please do check it out and watch some of the great content we’ve got up there!

P.S. If you are a frequent YouTube user, just click the “Subscribe” link on our YouTube channel page and you’ll be notified whenever we post a new video.

Did you miss our Best Practices webinar back in February on “Best Practices in Deploying Communication Applications: Cloud vs On-Premises vs Hybrid“? If so, we have a recording available on the webinar page, but now we also have the webinar available up on our YouTube account:

Our YouTube account was recently approved for the posting of videos longer than 15 minutes, so we’ll be adding our other webinars and jam sessions there as well.

The beautiful part about uploading our videos to YouTube is that they are now available across many different formats… including being available to mobile devices like the iPhone or iPad.

I hope you enjoy this Best Practices webinar… and we look forward to bringing you many more presentations through YouTube.

What was Voxeo doing at ITEXPO East 2011 last week in Miami? What is new with “cloud communications”? What are our customers asking us about? What new technology is emerging for communications?

Every six months at the ITEXPO events, I usually sit down with a TMC editor to talk on video about what’s new and interesting… and last week was no different. I sat down with TMC’s Pat Barnard to talk about the panels we were speaking on at ITEXPO and the Cloud Communications Summit and the answers to those questions above. The video is now online and viewable:

Considering that this interview was not scheduled in advance but was rather a result of walking by their video area and being asked “How about recording an interview right now?“, I thought it came off well. Only one mistake I noticed… the “Facebook Telephone” app is at http://apps.facebook.com/telephone, not the URL I gave in the video.

If you’d like to try out any of the services I mentioned, do check out Tropo.com, Phono or any of the other services and products we offer for free to developers.

What will I say in the next video interview in the fall? All I can say today is that we’ve got a LOT in the pipeline… 2011 is going to be a wild ride!

Would you like a birds-eye view of the 60,000 square foot office space that Voxeo will be moving to later this year? Voxeon Rob Patton recently brought his AR.DRONE WiFi Quadricopter in and recorded a flight through the 10th floor of our building in Orlando. Watch for the shadows of the quadricopter and also an appearance of a second quadricopter later in the video:

Rob plans to make other flights through the space as the construction progresses.

Voxeon John McDaniel also recorded a brief video showing the actual quadricopter in action:

Fun, fun, fun!

As several people have asked about what the video looked like that was running in the back of our SpeechTEK booth, we uploaded the video loop to YouTube.  Note that it is silent, so no, there isn’t a problem with your speakers.  Enjoy…

The video was produced by our friends over at R3M1X3D with direction on our end provided by our Kim Martin.

At ITEXPO back in January, Eric Linask at TMC interviewed me in what has seemed to become a regular every-six-months routine. In the interview, I discussed:

• the Cloud Communications Summit and pushing communications out into “the cloud”
• security issues related to cloud communications
• what’s next in communications, including multi-channel communications (a part of which we refer to as Unified Self-Service)

The big black vehicle behind me was being raffled off as part of the event promotion… hence why we were there. (Wouldn’t it perhaps have been more interesting if we did the interview inside the vehicle?) Anyway… here’s the video: (and will astute observers notice anything about me that is different from the other videos I’ve done?)

If you are wondering what is going on with all these “Voxeo Speaks” videos appearing in our Voxeo Talks blog, here’s the deal – last week at ITEXPO I (Dan York) recorded several of the sessions in Thomas Howe’s Cloud Communications Summit with the intent of making them available through our voxeo.blip.tv channel. I have to use blip.tv because the videos are longer than the 10 minutes allowed by YouTube. But then, of course, I realized that to publish them to that channel in the way that I am currently using the channel, I needed to number them… and perhaps it’s just me, but I wanted them to be in rough chronological order with the other conference videos I have recorded.

So… I am basically “flushing the queue”, as it were, and getting some of the video I’ve had around for a few months up online. I’m almost there, but if you have worked with video you know that it takes a while to render. Over the next few days I should be all caught up.

I hope you enjoy the presentations – and yes, the lighting was horrible on that WPMU presentation… (well, actually the brightness of the slides caused the camera to reduce the exposure level).

P.S. And no, I don’t know why precisely I didn’t spin up a separate “blog” on the site specifically to house these videos. I still could… but now these are here in the Voxeo Talks stream. My thinking really was that people can subscribe directly to the blip.tv channel – and that we won’t have a zillion of these videos over the course of a year. I may revisit that thinking, though.