Working Anywhere

DEMO-Support.com

So your computer breaks. What do you do. How do you keep them working. Well a company by the name of Support.com has a remote "fix" your Windows machine. Of course they don't have a Mac fix, but Mac's don't usually need third party intervention too often.

DEMO-EyeJot

EyeJot, a company run by pal David Geller out of Seattle. Geller's other company is WhatCounts and EyeJot has some nice features wrapped around the Macromedia Flash based video message recording, ability to work with social networks. EyeJot messages that people receive can be viewed inside the browser, loaded onto video iPods for playback later, as well as being able to be emailed to one person or even to groups.

EyeJot takes advantage of the already built in Flash in browsers which means no additional client software. Any web browser that already has Flash works with EyeJot so that means desktops, laptops and even mobile phones. The use Adobe Flash and the idea of bridging the idea video mail and what email has to offer in the form of a message makes it easy for anyone with a camera phone or web cam to send an video mail message.

Demo-HoneyPitch

HoneyPitch is web based application that makes developing and collaborating on presentations and sharing documents that are designed for one thing. Getting business.

But it goes past collaboration by providing prospects a way to interact, see video messages and most importantly review and approve agreements.

HoneyPitch makes it easy for nomadic teams to work together, but more importantly, to get the business in an easy to use and collaborative way.

DEMO-Reqall.com

For the forgetful who need to make verbal notes to themselves a new offering from QTech-Incorporated called ReQall is about to go live. Here's an easy to use "talking" application that is very reminiscent of SpeechMachines and MobileWord but lets users make short "verbal jotts" like you would on a note pad that can be played back from a phone. As time goes on they claim they will have an application that works on mobile phones for fast calling in, as well as a desktop widget/gadget that makes it easy to see, playback and manage your "jotts."

DEMO-ShipWire

The idea of working anywhere doesn't just apply to nomadic executives. Now a new company called ShipWire has done the same thing for companies which want to have remote shipping and inventory management.

The beauty of ShipWire is how they have made their presence transparent to their customer's customer. What's more their geographic spread and planned buying power to bring costs of shipping down makes this something perfect for the cottage industry of eBay sellers. As a matter of fact if this company takes off look for them to be a perfect buy for eBay as they are already accepting PayPal.

Shake Up At Digium

Digium has made some changes at the top, bringing in a new CEO and kicking founder Mark Spencer up to Chairman and naming him CTO.

Travel Woes and Fighting The Clock

Last week I didn't make it to Internet Telephony's IT Expo but you can check out Jon Arnold's recap.

My flight through what is called a mechanical and being it was the red eye it meant, find another plane and two hour or so delay.

My trip was already built around a series of meetings and conference calls, three of which would have happened before the new flight arrival time. Since I'm someone who hates the word cancel I chose to go the alternative route.

Three conference calls by staying on the West Coast, and getting four hours sleep I likely would not have gotten on the plane, plus no Zombie like feelings that would have carried over through the weekend.

I regret missing my panel and seeing many of my friends and colleagues, but fighting the clock is not something where anyone can win at, and time as I always say is the biggest enemy we have.

I'm off to DEMO..by car....

Gizmo Brings Easy Calling to The Web

Today around 8:00 AM or so the folks at GizmoProject will roll out GizmoCall, a new web based calling service.

What makes this something cool is that you can make calls today and in the near future receive them in the browser. That means you don't have to at YOUR computer, you can be at ANY computer.

In many ways the folks at SipPhone, the company behind GizmoProject, have done what Adobe has been hoping to do, and yet not doing. That's taking a Flash plug-in and putting a telephone calling service around it so it works within the web browser.

Om comments in his Web Worker Daily piece that you should be able to trigger a call to another number, like a cell phone. That's a big idea and one that won't escape any of the SIP oriented voice 2.0 companies out there. Already it's possible to bridge PhoneGnome and GizmoProject in such a way as you can log in via Gizmo and it registers with PhoneGnome (or vice versa) which means that if my PhoneGnome number rings, a number which is really a plain old AT&T PSTN number, that 'Gnome turns it into a SIP call and routes it to Gizmo, for free. If another PhoneGnome user called me, it would have been a SIP to SIP call and ended up on my Gizmo number. That means any browser I'm at, is where I can receive calls.

So what does this mean? Well for starters since you can point any SIP service to GizmoProject it means that the idea of a softphone as a piece of software becomes unneeded, because any browser now becomes a softphone. That's very similar in approach to VoIPster and Abbeynet, but with a difference. GizmoPoject already has hundreds of thousands of users and they have built some telco relationships with carriers such as SingTel. Gizmo also leverages Level3's network and capabilities and since migrating away from some Tier 2 carriers here in the USA has seen their quality steadily rise.

For the road warrior this is a great solution. It means your phone number, and your calling, once you install the plug in, is only a screen away.

Trustive Teams Up With The Cloud

Trustive, a WiFi hots spot aggregator and the cloud, one the the UK's leading hotspot companies have joined forces.

TalkNow by MobileCrunch

It seems pal Oliver Starr has a crush on the new iotum TalkNow application.

A committed user of many mobile devices, Starr is wishing on a star that iotum rolls out TalkNow on more than just the RIM BlackBerry platform