The Jeff Pulver Blog: 2008: The Year VoIP IS Disruptive (Again)

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January 02, 2008

2008: The Year VoIP IS Disruptive (Again)

I have been thinking about the future of social communications for awhile.

Just for clarity, in my book, social communications = social media + Internet Communications.

As I mentioned during my Fall 2007 VON keynote back October, (see video - parts 1 and 2), I believe VoIP is the "special sauce", the catalyst that when mixed with social media will empower a new generation of people to communicate freely, specifically, without the need of phone companies.

I urge my friends in the VoIP Industry to rediscover that on the internet, voice is just an application. Please treat it as such.

Back in 1995, “Internet Telephony” received the immediate attention of mainstream business press because of the inherent disruptive powers Internet Telephony enabled. (In 1995, the term “VoIP” was not yet popular.)

In 2008, I look forward to the re-awakening of the VoIP / IP Communications industry and a shifting away from being just a core enabler of underlying technologies to the Telcos and Cable companies and a shifting towards delivering tools for consumers. These tools would be used to empower consumers to create their own Mashups, connecting VoIP together with Social Media in a way meaningful for consumers. In my mind this is something that is inevitable. Something companies like Google and Yahoo! and others WILL be doing. I’m just looking to accelerate this to happen sooner rather than later.

And when this does happen, it will be the start of a social communications revolution.

I am looking forward for this disruption and for the positive effects this will have on the future of social communications and the challenges it will present to the telecom industry.

This area is one of the concepts I am exploring to discuss during my speech at Spring 2008 VON taking place in San Jose March 17th – 20th. If you would like to attend as a blogger – just drop me a note. I look forward to seeing everyone in San Jose.

(full disclosure – FWD International is a startup I am chairman of and we are actively working on connecting VoIP and social media. VoiceMail is one of our applications on Facebook.)

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Readers of my blog are invited to join me on both twitter and Facebook

Tags: VoIP, Social Media, Social Communications, Facebook, VON, Jeff Pulver

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When I'm on IM however, and marked as available, there is a certain expectation that if you send me a message I'm willing to engage i one on one conversation. There are limited controls though in most clients to group folks and control their access to me in a granular way.

Likewise Skype has the same issue, a lack of fine grained privacy controls.

My point is that creating interoperable and standards based VOIP solutions is not overly meaningful unless tied in with good controls for the user and good rules to protect users. For example, unlisted truly means unlisted, and no solicitation means no solicitation.

I'm imagining once use of VOIP becomes near ubiquitous that those privacy issues will come to light even more.

All that said, no arguement that this could be the year when VOIP really sparks and goes, and makes the Telcos step up and take notice.

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