Wed, 29 November 2006 Telephony is inherently a consumer product. Although it is purchased by IT Administration, the ultimate arbiter of how a product is used and successful is how the telephony user gains from the use. This week we cover product design. Don Norman used to be known as a critic of unusable things but now, he says, he has changed. He has transformed himself into an advocate for pleasurable, enjoyable products. Beauty is good, says Norman. Successful products should a pleasure to use, and convey a positive sense of self, of accomplishment, and pride of ownership. In this keynote address, Norman shares work from his latest book, Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things. This is courtesy of OReilly Emerging Technology Conference. powered by ODEO Comments[2] |
Sat, 18 November 2006 
This weeks episode is a little off the track with some history of Apple Computer.Its early success, stumbling then success again can be traced to the work of a handful of people. Among Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak is Andy Hertzfeld. Andy was a key member of the original Mac OS development team. Bob Cringley interviews Andy about the early days of Apple, his work on Folklore.org, a site dedicated to the History of Apple and the Valley, open source and many things in between. Thanks go to PBS and NerdTV for this interview. This weeks music is Summertime by Brother Love. This is available from Podshow Music Network. powered by ODEO Comments[0] |
Fri, 10 November 2006  This week's show is based around once again the Emerging Telephony Conference from January 2006. The first segment is a forum on digital telephony devices. Three speakers, Ajay Madhok from Amsoft Systems, Dave Weinstein from Casabi, and Brian McConnel from RadioHandi, discuss how their ideas can revolutionize the way consumers deal with digital telephony devices. This is from IT Conversations. 
Music is by Amy Fox from New Jersey. Her song is called "Do it Again" and you can find it on the Podshow Music Network . The link to her website is here. In the third half of our show we are going to listen to a presentation on Cisco's new Telepresence solutions. This is for you folks that cant sit online and watch the webcast, the highlights are right here in easy iPod format. powered by ODEO Comments[0] |
Sun, 15 October 2006  This week's podcast is from the Cisco IP Telephony Users Conference this past week in Phoenix Arizona. Greg Royal, CTO of Cistera Networks presents a workshop on Microsoft Unified Communications, the hows whys and wherefores of Unified Communications. powered by ODEO Comments[0] |
Tue, 19 September 2006 
This weeks guests include Peter Cochrane from IT Conversations and Guy Kawasaki from Berkeley Groks. Also we look back at how the phone was used back in 1950 from Archive, called "Speeding Speech" In this keynote address from the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference, Peter Cochrane, the highly esteemed and engaging techno-futurist, delivers a fascinating analysis of change in our increasingly smart, networked world. He points out that technology can sometimes offer solutions more quickly than people and organizations are able or willing to adopt, until they have no choice. Peter is author of Uncommon Sense: Out of the Box Thinking for An In the Box World. "Peter Cochrane is one of our most far-sighted visionaries, and brings brilliant clarity and focus to our understanding of ourselves and our technologies, and of how profoundly each is transforming the other." -Douglas Adams, Author, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy In Uncommon Sense, Peter Cochrane's follow up to the radical 108 Tips for Time Traveler, Peter explains how very simple analysis allows the prediction of such debacles as the 3G auction and the subsequent collapse of an industry, whilst simple-minded thinking is dangerous in the context of a world that is predominantly chaotic and out of control. People balked when Peter suggested a wholesale move to eWorking, the rise of email and text messaging, and the dotcom regime mirroring the boom and bust cycle of the industrial revolution. His predictions of the use and growth of mobile devices and communication, or use of chip implants for humans to replace ID cards, passports, and medical records, or iris scanners and fingerprint readers - were all seen as unlikely. Today they are a reality. Macintosh Evangelist Guy Kawasaki talks about his Garage Technology Ventures and what companies they are helping to grow. He talks about what it takes to be an entrepreneur with some sage advice. You can read all about Guy here. Guys blog is http://blog.guykawasaki.com/ Todays music is from Amy Fox called "Do it Again". This is courtesy of Podshow Music. technorati tags: podcast peter cochrane guy kawasaki itconversations telephony voip bell phone del.icio.us tags: podcast peter cochrane guy kawasaki itconversations telephony voip bell phone Comments[2] |
Wed, 30 August 2006  This weeks guest is Kevin Lenzo. Kevin is the CEO of Cepstral LLC based in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania . Greg talks to Kevin about Cepstral, the Festival Speech Technology and the confluence of VoIP and Speech Technology. Kevin is ABD in the Ph.D. program in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, and is taking leave from his faculty position in the Institute for Software Research International (ISRI) at Carnegie Mellon in order to spend his full energy on Cepstral. He holds a Master of Science in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and a BSc in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with Distinction in CIS and Honors in the Liberal Arts. We discuss how VoIP and and Text to Speech Engines intersect on Convergence Servers and look to the future of speech enabled telephony applications. powered by ODEO Comments[3] |
Thu, 10 August 2006 
This weeks episode focuses on VoIP Security with a report from the BlackHat Conference and then a speech given by PhoneGnome's CEO David Beckemeyer. He talks about VoIP 2.0. Dan York and Johnathan Zar from BlueboxPodcast interview Dave Endler and Mark Collier about their Black Hat talk and the VoIP security tools they released last week. This is from last weeks Black Hat Conference held at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, Nevada. The current voice over IP landscape resembles the early days of the internet, according to PhoneGnome's David Beckemeyer. Consumers are spoiled for choice, but the choices leave a lot to be desired, as most service provider are walled gardens locking users in to their services while limiting options and innovation. Beckemeyer puts forth a call to arms for voice over IP providers and consumers alike to imagine what VoIP 2.0 could be like. This presentation is courtesy of IT Converstations and the OReily Emerging Telephony Conference. This weeks music is called Comfort from the Auckland New Zealand Band dDub. This music is courtesy of Muzic.co.nz. This podcast is released under the Creative Commons non-commerical-sharealike 2.5 license. powered by ODEO Technorati Tags: cisco, cistera voip Nortel ip+telephony vonage telephony telephony+applications microsoft unified+communications microsoft+communicator live+commnications+server open+source asterisk skype Technorati Profile Comments[2] |
Fri, 28 July 2006 This week's episode is called Nortel A Go Go. Most of the show is an abridged version of the Nortel Microsoft Joint Conference held on Tuesday 18th July 2006 in Redmond Washington. Called the Innovation Communications Alliance, it is the forging of the Nortel Unified Communication Strategy up against the Microsoft Unified Communications Strategy announced earlier in the year. The domain was registered on the 13th July 2006 so this initiative is very new and could be directly in response to the Microsoft Announcement with partners Siemens and Motorola who directly compete with Nortel. That being said, here is the joint conference in two parts, the first is the announcement with Mike Z, CEO of Nortel and Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. The second part is the Question and Answer Session with Analysts and Journalists. The music today is from The Matthew Show who are from Fort Worth TX with the song "Bring Me Safely down". This is courtesy of PodsafeAudio.com. Gtone is distributed under the Creative Commands non-commercial share-alike 2.5 license. Gtone is available from the Cistera loudblog, from the Gtone Podcast website and from Itunes. powered by ODEO Technorati Tags: cisco, cistera voip Nortel ip+telephony vonage telephony telephony+applications microsoft unified+communications microsoft+communicator live+commnications+server open+source asterisk skype Comments[2] |
Sun, 9 July 2006 This week we welcome back Steve Von Rump, CEO of Be Here Inc to talk some more about Microsoft Unified Communication Strategy and Collaborative Solutions. We have Jerry Michalski, president of Sociate, discussing social networks and future web technology from the Berkeley Groks radio show. This weeks music is from Norine Braun from the album 'as the mood swings' courtesy of Magatune. Norine is from Vancouver BC. Gtone is distributed under the Creative Commands non-commercial share-alike 2.5 license. Portions are attributed to Magatune and Berkeley Groks. Gtone is available from the Cistera loudblog, from the Gtone Podcast website and from Itunes.
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Wed, 5 July 2006 This week we look at Microsoft and particularly Unified Communication and the strategy for the Office Communications Server. We analyze the presentation this week from Jeff Raikes, the President Business Division at Microsoft at the Unified Communications Strategy Briefing last week in San Francisco. This weeks music is from Magatune and Barabra Leoni, a Blues Guitarist originally from Wisconsin. And finally we hear from Ray Ozzie and the Microsoft Technology Roadmap courtesy of IT Conversations.
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Fri, 23 June 2006 This week on Gtone we have , Leander Kahney discussing the world's most popular music player and his new book, The Cult of the iPod, Joe Siebol from Podsafeaudio.com with 25 Lives. We follow that with Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine and a presentation on The Long Tail. This is courtesy of IT Conversations. This weeks sound is Humpback Whales from the whalesong website. Gtone is distributed under the Creative Commands non-commercial share-alike 2.5 license. Portions are attributed to Podsafe.com. powered by ODEO Technorati Tags: cisco, cistera voip Nortel ip+telephony vonage telephony telephony+applications microsoft unified+communications microsoft+communicator live+commnications+server skype Comments[2] |
Sat, 17 June 2006 This week on Gtone we have Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Corporation and now Open Source Advocate and President of the Open Source Application Foundation from Berkeley University California. Mitch discussed the Open Source movement as it pertains to software and other aspects of technology and life. Tyson Emmanuel from Toronto with Flamenco Guitar with Desires is the Song of the Week. Here is Tyson's website. This is followed by part two of Open Source Telephony with Daryll Strauss and what Greg calls 'How to nail Asterisk together'. Gtone is distributed under the Creative Commands non-commercial share-alike 2.5 license. Portions are attributed to Podsafeaudio.com and Berkeley Groks. powered by ODEO Technorati Tags: cisco, cistera voip Nortel ip+telephony vonage telephony telephony+applications microsoft unified+communications microsoft+communicator live+commnications+server open+source asterisk skype Comments[2] |
Sun, 11 June 2006 This week on Gtone we have Erik van Eykelen, Senior Technology Advisor, Voipster
Erik talks about Open source VOIP for browser, apps and Games and Voipster and openZoup. Daryll Strauss is a long time Linux Pioneer and president of Digital Ordinance, a company that produces hardware and software to support HDTV and film post production. He is here to talk about Open Telephony and specifically Asterisk. This is part one of two parts. The second part being broadcast next week. We also have Dave Henderson again from Podsafeaudio.com with Stranded as well as what I call sounds of the Web, this week Air traffic control out of Chicago and an ad from 1970 from Bell. This podcast is distributed under Creative Commons non-commercial-share-alike and is courtesy of IT Communications and PodsafeAudio.com.
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Fri, 2 June 2006 This week on Gtone we have Peter Cochrane's Key note from the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference held January of this year. In this keynote, Peter Cochrane, techno-futurist, talks about change and what does it mean for a smart, networked world. We will hear from Everyday Jones, the song is called Here I am and it is recorded live from the Jazz bones in Tacoma Washington courtesy of Podsafeaudio.com. We hear from Jeff Bonforte, Senior Director of Voice Product Management, Yahoo! and finally we have an extra special extract from one of Greg's favorite podcasts. The Emerging Telephony conference is courtesy of the IT Conversations Network. powered by ODEO Technorati Tags: cisco, cistera voip Nortel ip+telephony vonage telephony telephony+applications microsoft unified+communications microsoft+communicator live+commnications+server open+source asterisk skype Comments[0] |
Fri, 26 May 2006 This is episode 4 of Gtone with Paul Cunningham from Westcon. We discuss Skypeout being free, where Application Driven Telephony is going for Enteprise Voice and Enterprise Mobility. Then we talk about mobile applications. The music this week is Your Rock and Roll by Joe Sibol on podcastsafeaudio.com. powered by ODEO Technorati Tags: cisco, cistera voip Nortel ip+telephony vonage telephony telephony+applications microsoft unified+communications microsoft+communicator live+commnications+server open+source asterisk skype Comments[2] |
Wed, 17 May 2006 In Gtone Episode 3 Greg talks to Michael Robertson, founder of mp3.com and the Gizmo Project. The discussion revolves around how Gizmo Project and sipphone.com is taking Application Driven Telephony to the next level. We introduce David Henderson from podsafeaudio.com, read this weeks bloglines and end with a 1949 training video on how to dial a telephone. powered by ODEO Technorati Tags: cisco, cistera voip Nortel ip+telephony vonage telephony telephony+applications microsoft unified+communications microsoft+communicator live+commnications+server open+source asterisk gizmo skype Comments[0] |
Tue, 2 May 2006 In Gtone Episode 2 we talk to Stephen Von Rump, CEO of Behere. We talk about the evolution of Video Conferencing and the coming wave of Video Conferencing in the office, from personal video terminals replacing the phone, to full blown video conference solutions for the conference room. We also cover all parts in between, from Google to Microsoft to AOL. powered by ODEO Technorati Tags: cisco, cistera voip Nortel ip+telephony vonage telephony telephony+applications microsoft unified+communications microsoft+communicator live+commnications+server open+source asterisk gizmo skype Comments[0] |
Sun, 23 April 2006 This weeks Gtone talks to John C Debaca from INX. We discuss the past present and future of IP Telephony and Application Driven Telephony. powered by ODEO Technorati Tags: cisco, cistera voip Nortel ip+telephony vonage telephony telephony+applications microsoft unified+communications microsoft+communicator live+commnications+server open+source asterisk gizmo skype Comments[1] |
Sun, 16 April 2006  Welcome to Gtone Podcast, the podcast for all things Application Driven Telephony. Episodes should be available each Thursday or Friday. Application Driven Telephony is telephony where the focus is not on dial tone, but application tone. A good example is Skype where the emphasis is to build communities around ebay sellers. We use Skype to record our interviews for our guests. It is good quality and allows us to speed up the delivery of podcasts. Like all good podcasts we use Apple Powerbooks with Tiger OSX. The podcast workflow is done in the excellent Garageband in iLife 06. Recording is via Skype, recorded in NiceCast, cleaned up in Audacity and published in Libsyn. Please support our sponsors Cistera Networks Ratster Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:34 PM Comments[4] |
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