Visions Under Construction

This feed will disappear on August 1st, 2019 Thanks to Michael Graves, and all the other participants who contributed, and to all the great guests and sponsors.  You can follow whatever new things I do on Soundcloud (randulo) which is available as a feed. The only ongoing podcast I'm aware of from a former contributor is that of Tim Panton, Distributed Future.  It's been a great 12 years!

Dave Michels joins us to talk about what happens to your online presence when you quit this mortal coil, but also about many other, more telco-related news and views. This is the final episode of a live, interactive podcast that has spanned 12 years of great guests and participants.

Vlad is a longtime friend. A telephony Architect at Cisco, and escapee from the Bay Area, CA, Vlad and his family appreciate life in rural France. We talk about his move from Russia to the United States, Silicon Valley, then on to self-driving cars and jobs lost to automation.

Although the world's image when it hears the name Facebook immediately goes to a bad place, this initiative is backed by 27 impressive partners: Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Paypal, Ebay, Illiad, Kiva, and many well-known investment companies. Much derision and negativity on Twitter, so there must be a chance this will actually work. Remember the iPad? Two sides from the people into cryptocurrency: delight, that this may push BTC and ETH success and fear that the opposite may happen. Which will it be? Mentioned: https://2019.commcon.xyz https://www.cluecon.com/ Audio bridge from https://www.zipdx.com

While we waited for Jordan, who, ironically, was in a meeting, we talked about general news. I inserted a tune I recorded recently on my Soundcloud feed, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot". The feed is https://soundclmoud.com/randulo Jordan's company is https://parabol.co and he takes us through how it began and what it does; Check it out. Thanks to Simwood for support over the years and a nice gift they made me last week. The VUC, Visions Under Construction is having an identity crisis. If you are reading these notes, you must be interested. Watch this space to see what happens. 

As Hangouts on Air'd demise has been announced by Google, we talk again to Jitsi Meet (formerly SIP Communicator) founder Emil Ivov. Jitsi Meet was eventually acquired by Atlassian ("HipChat") and then 8x8. From London, Emil talks about his path and that of Jitsi. Emil showed plenty of vision, and we've been friends for many years as the VUC worked with the team while they developed lots of new features. Currently, we plan to use it in future video sessions.   Follow @jitsinews and @emilivov on Twitter. While you're there, follow us, @vuc2019

This is where we check out Jitsi Meet again. It worked well and has several new useful features added since we last used it. It's open source, free and may replace Hangouts on Air, the demise of which Google has announced in their blog. Brief discussion of the big 5G opening in the UK, first announced by BBC, then deemed a fail. About 12 minutes in is a brief (~20 minutes) infomercial about CommCon UK. Sounds like a great event this June the the UK.

Director, Founder at Null Team/SS7WARE on the "promise" of 5G and MVNOs.

We met Freespee at Kamailio World last week in Berlin. They join us Friday May 17th at the usual time, 12 Noon EDT, 6 PM CEDT From guest, Alaa Rahimi: "Freespee is a sales acceleration platform for companies whose buying journeys combine online and offline conversations. It's technology addresses critical revenue leakage points across the entire sales funnel, from lead to outcome, improving lead management and ensure most valuable customers convert faster."  

As usual, after a chat about Kamailio World in Berlin, we moved on to mobile phone battery life, how often you buy them, a new smartphone that does 4G and is well under $100 and the usual other topics.   More info on the KW2019 speakers Kamailio World 2019 Videos

A look at AR and VR technologies and a word about the upcoming Kamailio World in Berlin next week. The regulars also discuss the future of 5G.

Longtime friend and community member David Duffett will bring us up to date on his whereabouts and we discuss his forthcoming book, "Let the Geek Speak". Original title: "Where in the World is David Duffett?" proved to be prophetic because video was not switching.

Robert Pearson of VRwein joins us to talk about what he's doing with Virtual Reality in Berlin and what we'll be doing at Kamailio World 2019, also in Berlin, on May 7th.  

GSuite version of Google+ renamed "Google Currents", which was a former news product killed off in 2011. Try this: google.com/producer/currents and you'll see.  So far, the thing looks no different than Google+. Exciting features to come? More on The Verge from last week. Discussion of Brexit and its consequences for all of us. More about Kamailio World 2019 and some history of phreaking.  

"Picture if you will, a connected world, a world where your imagination is the only limitation." That's how Eric Klein, author and co-founder of Cloudonix describes their latest vision. Longtime friends Eric and Nir Simionovich join us Friday for a VUC reunion.

We're starting one hour early in the UK and Europe (see what I did there?) because there's a three-week period when daylight saving time starts and ends. Other than our start time, time is used to organize conference slots and so many other things. The notion of time is also a part of latency, important for Internet gaming and VoIP.

Anti-Brexit petition goes viral, over 300 Million petitioners have signed in a little over 24 hours. We talk about how communication and power of governance have evolved since the days of cave-dwellers. More about the fediverse and why you should forget silos and come over to the good side.

Jay Carpenter on some new things in the IPFS, the rest of the general banter that is VUC when no specific topic or guest is at bat.

Wide ranging discussion starting with the umor that there would be no Astricon this year (Sangoma acquisition). NO TRUE! There will be Astricon in October in Atlanta.   What is 5G and what does Michael want to rant about, concerning it.   Don't forget Kamailio World 2019

Zuck ruminates on identity on the blockchain, we talk about ways to be authenticated, including in person, which failed for one of us yesterday. The usual info on conferences in Berlin, Chicago and somewhere in the disunited kingdom in July.   Also mentioned, Kamailio World 2019 CommCon UK 2019 ClueCon 2019