59 posts tagged andyabramson

Two bloggers in the IP communications space who should be congratulated: Andy Abramson, through his VoIP Watch, has been recognized on the Industry Standard's Top 25 B-to-Z List Blogs for his ongoing and often in-depth coverage.

Two bloggers in the IP communications space who should be congratulated: Andy Abramson, through his VoIP Watch, has been recognized on the Industry Standard's Top 25 B-to-Z List Blogs for his ongoing and often in-depth coverage.

Two bloggers in the IP communications space who should be congratulated: Andy Abramson, through his VoIP Watch, has been recognized on the Industry Standard's Top 25 B-to-Z List Blogs for his ongoing and often in-depth coverage.

its been a huge quarter for buddy Andy Abramson. Firstly he gets cited in Businessweek Then he writes one of the best pieces in my memory on the future of communication, I disagree with points in it but that’s another days work. Now VoIPWatch Named To 25 Best BtoZ Blogs By The Standard.

I was very excited this morning to get to participate in Alec Saunders podcast called Squawk Box. It’s a conference call led by Alec and mostly about the daily tech news. I was amongst some of the heavy hitters this morning and felt like a small fish in a big sea.

Two things have happened in the past few days that, at least my own opinion, emphasize the facts in my prior post: first that PR people typically don’t have a clue when it comes to dealing with bloggers (the very same day I posted the story I was emailed by no less than 3 PR people who each managed to violate every basic tenet of approaching a blogger that I’d laid out in my post).

My first connection to the communications market came through a VON Canada event in 2004 in the Greater Toronto Area; at that time I was working with a collaboration product and wanted to see if there was a role for it in the overall communications space.

Andy Abramson at VoIP Watch has attempted to respond to last week's two stories that created a lot of buzz: The Skype Killer to which I responded: Much Ado About Nothing and, subsequently, The Chickens Come Home to Roost - the IP Communications Saga Continues, and The Clearwire/Sprint/Google/Intel story about a WiMax carrier partnership.

Last week, two major stories broke in the communications space -- first, Om Malik's closely followed report that many of the major telcos may be planning to launch a "Skype Killer" in 2009; and second, the formation of a new WiMax consortium led by Sprint, Intel, Google, Time Warner cable and others.

Good stuff from pal Andy Abramson about what the new Clearwire might do differently, instead of just acting like another DSL or mobile-phone option: Go deep with video, says Andy: Instead of simply being another voice play to battle Skype or the mobile operators, the WiMax companies and the cable