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October 05, 2006
Welcome to the Blogosphere, Verizon. Seriously.
On August, 21, 1981, Apple Computer took out a full page ad in The Wall Street Journal welcoming IBM to the personal computer age. Fast forward to October 3, 2006, and Telecom company, Verizon takes a daring step forward into the blogosphere by creating its own PoliBlog, positioning itself as a technology and policy telecommunications policy blog. So, to borrow from the famous Apple ad, "Welcome to the Blogosphere, Verizon. Seriously."
It will be interesting to see how Verizon draws the line between serving its own business needs and opening up to the blogosphere to engage in meaningful policy conversations, especially as it expands into video delivery with its FiOS service.
While it is premature to comment on the blog itself (so far, just a few days of content), my hope is that Verizon will look beyond its own corporate needs and let this blog serve as a platform for self-examination on policy while serving the needs of its customers, stockholders, and of course compliance with the FCC.
I understand that many large corporate enterprises have trouble messaging in the context of a blog, given marketing and business pressures, but I suspect that if any corporate spokesperson can walk this line and do justice to the Verizon's corporate interests and the policy debates, it is the silver-tongued Tom Tauke, always a compelling voice ... even when I disagree.
I welcome Verizon to the Blogosphere, and I hope you use your power for maximum good, not just corporate gain.
Tags: Apple, VoIP, Verizon, Tom Tauke, Jeff Pulver
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Posted by jeff on October 5, 2006 07:08 AM | Permalink
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Comments
get the html linking/seoing going on.
Add the del.ico.us functionality of a normal website to this. So that it can be more readily and realtime crawled.
Make it a relevance. More interactive, more media involved, versatile channels to utilize the connection. Add a jail array on a unix box locked down somewhere and offer free live real asterisk box's people can toy with. Connect them via mindterm javassh or something so its live, and it connects to a random jail that has all files basically configured and upon .logout the files are restored etc. make it mainstream.
I'm bored.
Let's build something.
CRAY voice 2 text processing for analysis / survey money... Everyone wants to know.
sms voice messaging should be another little module built into this site.. sorta like a jabber but lets move on with technology already. Since everyone's stuck on the mouse and rarely a keyboard shortcut...the simple things that save you 10 yrs of your life in the long run (points and triple clicks at the text) i could be just speaking after click the preview button here below.. which instead of preview would say twocents (click to leave a voiceboard message)
click the "twocents" button and speak. This voiceclip can be up to 20 seconds long.
(Start your own voice forum topic)
((Dont worry, if you have to sleep we'll be sure
to route any voiceforum replies to your fwd vmbox.
(Any replies can be sent str8 to your fwd / ipkall voicemail by clicking this box...)
[ * ]
Click this box to be connected to a Real *Virtual Linux Server Running on the internet now with asterisk installed.
voiceovergeorgia.com
Posted by: seattle in nola at October 6, 2006 01:20 AM
Lets add the simple yet indebted functions of a normal browser when viewing html. Why have you forgotten the common viewing tools enjoyable by even yourself when you surf the web.
Right clicks ->
{ $mousemenu
Save blog url to clipboard;
(Copy Blog Location)
Email blog url to contact;
(mailto:...)
Make this my default homepage;
(bookmark scripts)
Save picture as Desktop;
(setwallpaper())
Open New Forum Window;
... I'm just bored ..
797050
Posted by: Signal Sure at October 6, 2006 01:00 AM
It should be interesting to see exactly where this goes. Having used the Apple advertisment as an example, when it was written, the personal computer market was "owned" by Apple, and IBM had so little of it most people did not know they sold them.
Now 25 years later and almost the entire market, including Apple, is IBM compatible personal computers.
The question that time will answer Jeff,is was this sarcasm, or are you predicting far more than you think?
Geoff.
Posted by: Geoff Mendelson at October 5, 2006 08:55 AM