Haven’t posted much about PDAs and Smartphones lately because I’ve been spending much more time on VOIP-related sites. For the past year or so I’ve been following Asterisk, a powerful PBX platform that do just about anything — from providing voicemail for a busy household on up to elliminating long-distance calls between a multi-national corporation’s offices. And it happens to be GPL.
VOIP-forum is a low-volume site that covers Asterisk development and SIP. VOIP-info is a wiki that covers all things VOIP with extensive Asterisk documentation. Their VOIP Service Providers page has links to any type of VOIP service you might want — pure Internet, origination, termination, free PSTN gateways, and even companies that offer IAX2 services (an Asterisk protocol that avoids SIP’s NAT issues).
NetworkWorld Fusion covers the corporate side of VOIP in their Convergence area. CommWeb mostly looks at the Call Center perspective.
News.com’s VOIP section is low-volume and mostly fluff, but every once in a while has something good. VOIP Watch and Om Malik’s VOIP Daily mostly look at the consumer side — Vonage, AT&T CallVantage, etc.
The *scottstuff* weblog has an Asterisk section that follows Scott’s use of Asterisk at home.
And of course, this dump would not be complete without a link to The Jeff Pulver Blog. Jeff is the VOIP Industry. He founded FreeWorld Dialup, runs the Voice on the Net conference, and was the first to sell the $250 WiSIP WiFi phone (now also offered by Zyxel, BroadVoice, and others). I believe he was also involved with Vonage’s original corporate manifestation…
Bruce,
Thanks for the link. It’s funny you say “mostly consumer side.” I’m thrilled you view my writing is geared for consumers. My style is to make the technical info more consumer friendly and not so geek oriented. While I look at a lot of the technical aspects of VoIP, there are enough other sites and forums which can do a better job at the tech aspects, but don’t translate it so the media can grasp what is going on too easily.
As for Om, his interpretation of the financials and numbers is where I won’t tread. He has it nailed.
You have the tech stuff so well covered, it’s not right to replicate. Keep it up. Between the all the blogs the industry is well covered.
Andy