Microsoft Lync is spreading in corporate market like wildfire.
Not only that, but MS is riding the wave of Lync-to-Lync federation.
It is interesting to note the emergence of tools to e.g. set check the federation capability of an Outlook contact.
But let's remember, that while reducing costs is always a target, I would argue Lync-to-Lync federation is not a prime decision making criteria in choosing a supplier, quite yet.
Business responsible managers together with sourcing will choose the suppliers, not IT departments.
Having said that, features beyond basic voice like document sharing may be more important.
26.1.12
Voice messaging: where did it go?
Received an interesting question from a reader. Firstly, big thanks. It is a great pleasure to get feedback of any kind.
Here goes:
There are a lot topic regarding CoIP or VoIP. What about short voice messaging over IP?
Its concept is similar to Push-To-Talk. It can be a replacement to part of SMS.
I see there are some benefits of short voice messaging comparing to SMS:
- Fast to compose. There is a trend to use speech-to-text feature in the phone to compose SMS but still the user needs to correct the typo manually.
- Voice messaging through 3rd party instant messaging server over IP may have no extra cost. But I don’t know whether there is such a server.
- More information in the voice messages than the plain short messages: the sender’s mood and voice tune. The pure text message can’t contain such rich information.
Short voice messaging refers to the use case that the sender records a short audio clip and sends it to the recipient and the recipient plays the audio clip.
I would say yes. In the various push-to-talk solutions that were trying to enter markets in around 2004-6, I remember the company Fastmobile whose solution was this type of a voice message oriented approach.
There are plenty of others, I guess too. Let's not forget about MMS too, in the MMS paradigm.
The interesting question is why this is not more common? There are a couple of reasons maybe. Firsly, the usual non-interop between IM clouds. This is gradually changing of course, but having this type of application-to-application interop and very close integration could take more time to happen between the clouds.
If I were Apple, looking to really differentiate inside my own cloud, I would explore this type of concept.
There is great user delight to be created here.
Need to check imessage features...
Here goes:
There are a lot topic regarding CoIP or VoIP. What about short voice messaging over IP?
Its concept is similar to Push-To-Talk. It can be a replacement to part of SMS.
I see there are some benefits of short voice messaging comparing to SMS:
- Fast to compose. There is a trend to use speech-to-text feature in the phone to compose SMS but still the user needs to correct the typo manually.
- Voice messaging through 3rd party instant messaging server over IP may have no extra cost. But I don’t know whether there is such a server.
- More information in the voice messages than the plain short messages: the sender’s mood and voice tune. The pure text message can’t contain such rich information.
Short voice messaging refers to the use case that the sender records a short audio clip and sends it to the recipient and the recipient plays the audio clip.
I would say yes. In the various push-to-talk solutions that were trying to enter markets in around 2004-6, I remember the company Fastmobile whose solution was this type of a voice message oriented approach.
There are plenty of others, I guess too. Let's not forget about MMS too, in the MMS paradigm.
The interesting question is why this is not more common? There are a couple of reasons maybe. Firsly, the usual non-interop between IM clouds. This is gradually changing of course, but having this type of application-to-application interop and very close integration could take more time to happen between the clouds.
If I were Apple, looking to really differentiate inside my own cloud, I would explore this type of concept.
There is great user delight to be created here.
Need to check imessage features...
19.1.12
WebRTC progressing
Seems Google is making WebRTC progress fast.
Now it is available in Chrome for development purposes. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
But all this is just natural, this is a natural for Google.
More interesting will be how MS/Skype play this game...
Now it is available in Chrome for development purposes. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
But all this is just natural, this is a natural for Google.
More interesting will be how MS/Skype play this game...
18.1.12
Skype to integrate with Lync?
Skype VP Osterloh talks here of various ways Skype plans to integrate with MS products.
It is kinda interesting to think of Skype client integrating with Facebook, this has been available for some time. Would be keen to see the roadmap for that client, my bet is that XMPP has a role there.
Integration with Lync? Well this could mean several things.
I guess here they talk of gateways and XMPP comes in as a natural there too.
But for business reasons (and maybe internal, who knows...) again, my speculation is that Lync and Skype will remain separate...
It is kinda interesting to think of Skype client integrating with Facebook, this has been available for some time. Would be keen to see the roadmap for that client, my bet is that XMPP has a role there.
Integration with Lync? Well this could mean several things.
I guess here they talk of gateways and XMPP comes in as a natural there too.
But for business reasons (and maybe internal, who knows...) again, my speculation is that Lync and Skype will remain separate...
Trusting that she is not a dog, afterall
Don't quite get the imo.im concept of strangers connecting with each other.
With chatroulette, you at least get the visual feedback. But if this is text...?
Then again, it is good to see there are people out there with a positive view on human nature.
The goal of the network is to connect users to new people from around the world, and to those who are looking to chat. These interactions are facilitated by the “Meet New People” feature which offers an online directory and search function. The public directory is searchable by location, interests or school and users can post Twitter-like public messages called “Broadcasts” which are meant to spark discussions. When you see someone’s discussion (which, also like Twitter, can contain links), you can join in the conversation in real-time.
With chatroulette, you at least get the visual feedback. But if this is text...?
Then again, it is good to see there are people out there with a positive view on human nature.
The goal of the network is to connect users to new people from around the world, and to those who are looking to chat. These interactions are facilitated by the “Meet New People” feature which offers an online directory and search function. The public directory is searchable by location, interests or school and users can post Twitter-like public messages called “Broadcasts” which are meant to spark discussions. When you see someone’s discussion (which, also like Twitter, can contain links), you can join in the conversation in real-time.
16.1.12
Setting France Free
From France, some very interesting news that could shake the market.
Free Mobile (new and 4th mobile operator in France) announced their service and prices for their 3G network (commercial release on 12th of January normally).
This will cut the prices by at least two, having only two simple subscriptions and not tying the end-user to any contract, locked phone, expensive extra minutes or options.
In a nutshell, focusing on delivering the bits over a full IP (I-HSPA NSN) network for a very affordable price to the end customer.
The man behind all this, the billionaire Xavier Niel is being hailed by French press.
Now the interesting thing of course is how will the other operators react...
(thanks Olivier G!)
Free Mobile (new and 4th mobile operator in France) announced their service and prices for their 3G network (commercial release on 12th of January normally).
This will cut the prices by at least two, having only two simple subscriptions and not tying the end-user to any contract, locked phone, expensive extra minutes or options.
In a nutshell, focusing on delivering the bits over a full IP (I-HSPA NSN) network for a very affordable price to the end customer.
The man behind all this, the billionaire Xavier Niel is being hailed by French press.
Now the interesting thing of course is how will the other operators react...
(thanks Olivier G!)
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