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September 08, 2006

AOL's AIM Phone Line Developer Program: Significance Explained in the Blogosphere

While AOL's announcement yesterday of the AIM Phone Line Developer Program was picked up by quite a number of news outlets around the world and added to the growing buzz of Fall 2006 VON, those looking for insight regarding the significance of the AOL's announcement had to visit the blogosphere to get it.

It was great to see the sharing of the collective knowledge and insights from: Jon Arnold, Jim Courney, James Enck, Mark Evans, Mathew Ingram, Alec Saunders, Bruce Stewart and then for Andy Abramson and help connect the dots for us. :)

Looks like one of the underlying themes at Fall 2006 VON will once again be "purple!"

I expect AOL's announcement to carry forward into the discussion at our opening plenary session on Monday night when Carl Ford will be moderating a discussion between: AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Skype on "IM: The State of Presence." Speakers include: Ragui Kamel, Sr. Vice President & General Manager, AOL Voice Services, America Online; Mike Jazayeri, Product Manager, Real-Time Communications & Google Talk, Google; Dan Casey, Director, Windows Live VoIP and Messenger Product Management, Microsoft; Nitzan Shaer, Director, Mobile Devices, Skype; Jeff Bonforte, Director of Voice Product Management, Yahoo!

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