Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2013 No Comments »
It’s easy to get an OpenID; in fact, you probably already have one. If you have a Google account, you can use your profile id number as your login (which can be found in your profiles.google.com url). Similarly, if you have a Yahoo account, you can use your username as your OpenID login.Other sources for […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2013 No Comments »
ffonio.in is a web application that people can use to have IM, voice and video chats with their friends and family. Users can run this app on their own devices such as their WiFi router, Raspberry Pi or a cloud instance like Digital Ocean Droplet. As long as friends and family have an OpenID and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2013 No Comments »
As early as 2008, EnThinnai supported the ability to conduct IM and voice chats. At that time a Java applet was dynamically downloaded to the browser. Then the browser maintained a two-way signaling channel with the server that allowed asynchronous notification from the server to the browser – a proto Websocket you may say. The […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 3rd, 2013 No Comments »
Skype is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. On this occasion, I thought it will be interesting to revisit my early comments. They were published as a guest blog post in Gigaom on March 27, 2004. But due to some server malfunction, they were lost. I am republishing that post here. I am proud to say that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 8th, 2013 2 Comments »
It has been reported that Telefonica will shut down Tu Me and redirect its resources in shoring up another service, To Go. People have theorized that compared to competing services from OTTs, To Me has anemic traction with uncertain revenue potential. On the other hand, the reasoning continues, To Go has solid revenue opportunities, since […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 25th, 2013 No Comments »
In a recent post Chris Kranky on the need “to move on” and the need for expediency in wrapping up the first iteration of the API. Personally I would have benefited if the first iteration had been a low level spec. For I could have easily ported a custom Java applet. But given the passage […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 25th, 2013 2 Comments »
For many use cases the point of this post may not be applicable. But for the use case where your contact can use a browser to reach you to communicate with you, it is very relevant. So you decide whether to read on further. If you want your contacts be able to reach you from […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 22nd, 2013 2 Comments »
By now it is quite passe to claim that WebRTC will be a huge disruptive technology. Indeed, there has been a predictable backlash. In all these back and forth, very often we miss to note an important aspect of this technology: there has been a deliberate attempt to avoid specifying any messages and procedures that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2013 4 Comments »
Last week during WebRTC Expo we saw enormous activity regarding WebRTC. Even though people list many use cases, most of the demos and announcements were related to Unified Communications (UC). They were all good, but in a way disappointing because they didn’t take full advantage of rearchitecture afforded by WebRTC. Most widely held mindset seems […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2012 No Comments »
Some of us strongly believe that WebRTC will usher in a wide variety of innovative services, features and capabilities. At the same time, there are many skeptics dampen the (irrational?) exuberance. I am sure both sides will present their view points during this week’s WebRTC Conference & Expo. In this post, I would like to […]