End of Cash?

An excellent blog post by Tomi Ahonen. This is the first of a series on evolution of money from physical to electronic to mobile.

Interesting and informative article covering subjects like history of money, cheques, credit cards, mobile money, virtual money and various examples of mobile money initiatives around the world including how they approach the issue in South Korea.

Go ahead and read the article http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/10/end-of-cash-first-blog-in-a-series-examining-the-pending-doom-of-minted-coins-and-printed-banknotes.html.

Asterisk 1.8.0 released

Asterisk 1.8.0 was released 2 days ago. The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the main feature list was that it is catching up on Freeswitch.

As on http://www.asterisk.org/node/51454, the main features include

Secure RTP
IPv6 Support in the SIP channel driver
Connected Party Identification Support
Calendaring Integration
A new call logging system, Channel Event Logging (CEL)
Distributed Device State using Jabber/XMPP PubSub
Call Completion Supplementary Services support
Advice of Charge support

The complete list of new features can be found on http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.8/CHANGES?view=markup (supposibly, because I can't open the link)

The full changelog is here http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ChangeLog-1.8.0

really cool demo by Twilio

Twilio steals the show at New York Tech Meetup with this live demo.

You usually tend to think twice, or more before giving a live demo because that's when it hurts when things go wrong - and that's when they usually do.

Check out the demo by Twilio developer to large tech audience.

Watch live streaming video from nytechmeetup at livestream.com

Google I/O 2010

http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers#g/a

recommended watching

Scrap..

Five years back when Gadu-Gadu was just a few guys and us - we had to buy, install and mount the servers in the racks by ourselves. Now they're just scrap.
Today it's all virtualized. And it's a little easier to get your service running. You submit a ticket and your servers are up and ready the next day ..or two.

GaduAIR

GaduAIR's birthday cake. The MVNO network is one year old ..this was 2 days ago.

Recommended Watching

This is a video of Eric Schmidt's keynote @ Abu Dhabi Media Summit. Overview of where technology, media and the mobile internet is currently going - highly recommended ...well, at least in my opinion.