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WebRTC
WebRTC is an API definition being drafted by the World Wide Web Consortium to enable browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat, and P2P file sharing without plugins.
Speak.io integrates audio with Slack (kindof)
Speak.io quietly slips into the market with a utility to add team audio communications to Slack. This WebRTC based executable is slick in it's execution and has a nice UI. More importantly, this dev team clearly has a mission to reduce the friction in communications.
Chris Koehncke
Twilio SIGNAL next week
Twilio's SIGNAL customer event is next week in San Francisco, whether you're a customer or not, the agenda and specifically the business track has a number of interesting speakers talking about the integration of communications into their business processes to be sufficiently interesting to all.
Chris Koehncke
Temasys progresses with Citrix
Temasys announced that Citrix will be using their famed WebRTC plug-in for GoToMeeting Free. Plugins are usually not a good thing, but recognizing the time frame of large enterprises, we may have little choice.
Chris Koehncke
Who will be the winner in the UC battle?
UC or Unified Communications isn't about advanced call forwarding anymore. It's broader, bigger and more valuable. It's about how you and I will communicate in the future and billions are at stake. With that reward, a storm is brewing of existing and new competitors. Here's how I think it will play out. Caution: Not for young children.
Chris Koehncke
Mobile WebRTC will be better than VoLTE
WebRTC is powering on to mobile. Forget your desktop. The action for WebRTC will be on mobile. Read some factoids on the forward plans for WebRTC specific to mobile.
Chris Koehncke
Voice needs to get better
Is voice done? Probably not but clearly things need to change. Let me rant about the least loved airline in the world, British Airways, to denote the disconnect voice systems have with the modern web.
Chris Koehncke