In case you missed the sneak peek demo of the forthcoming Upswing 360 at the Wainhouse Research CSP Summit on October 27th, . Upswing is a software-as-a-service product that fuses enterprise social networking, a radically efficient CRM, project management and other web services for business teams in the SMB space. Upswing 360 launches in a few weeks, and soon after launch it will have embedded conferencing services that are launched from within the Upswing 360 web-based application. As we've been saying, SaaS apps like Upswing will be the gateway to conferencing services.
CSPs interested in partnership discussions - to add a new revenue stream while integrating, expanding and protecting your core conferencing services - should sign up for launch notice and contact Upswing Networks.
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October 30, 2008
"In preparation for landing, please check to make sure your seat belt is securely fastened, and your seat back and tray table are in the full upright and locked position, and shut your pie hole and turn off the videoconferencing system."
Have you ever called someone on your cell phone while you secretly walked up to him or her? Surprise! What a fun trick! Oh the laughs! ...Well, it seems a cloud-computing analyst from Gartner wants to do that with jets. That's right: instead of making a cell phone call and walking up to the called person to surprise, an analyst from Gartner, we'd conject, wants to hop on a jet, have a videoconference meeting with someone, then go surprise them with his face-to-face presence. Oh the fun! The Gartner analyst demanded of John Chambers of Cisco at a recent conference, saying, "I want to be on a plane and have TelePresence in front of me," to which Chambers replied, "Well, the answer is, you are probably going to."
We don't make this stuff up. Here's the title and link, folks: Cisco CEO sees videoconferencing on planes within 18 months Maybe this cloud-computing stuff is getting a little too literal for some. We can see the report for $2995: Cloud-Meetings - An Emerging Market. Or the webinars: Hosting Effective Web Events in the Sky.
Let's see here... Burn more jet fuel and increase carbon emissions? CHECK. Increase ticket prices for expensive TelePresence systems? CHECK. Create annoyance for other passengers? CHECK. Provide awkward self-consciousness and privacy issues for the person videoconferencing from the ground? CHECK. What a great idea!
Maybe our idea we "gifted" to Cisco about Telattepresence isn't so bad after all. The "third place" of Starbucks just might be followed by the "fourth place" of gathering on planes to have videoconferences. To get the ball rolling, we'd suggest putting Telepresence monitors on the back of every seat in this plane.
Can't we just get cell phone and web access first?
October 15, 2008
We think the forthcoming Upswing 360, an on-demand "social workspace" for dispersed business teams with social networking, "activity awareness," and "collaborative CRM" functionality, is poised for explosive growth in the SMB space in 2009. Launching later this year, Upswing will be eventually integrated with conferencing services.
View the teaser video above for the Upswing 360 presentation to the conferencing industry at the upcoming Wainhouse Research CSP Summit: Revenue in the SMB Cloud: Conferencing on the Upswing of Web 2.0
Register for the Wainhouse Research CSP Summit - 10.27.08
September 29, 2008
Compunetix is on a roll. They've got a new corporate and brand identity manifested in a nicely designed website that includes a blog that promotes effectively their products and people. Jerry Pompa just got elected to the IMCCA's board of directors. And recently Compunetix acquired the assets of Sonexis, an in-house audio conferencing bridge maker.
What did Telespan's Elliot Gold think of the Compunetix acquisition of Sonexis assets? Was it a good decision? To quote Elliot from his August 20th newsletter, "You bet your bippy it is." ...We're forget what a bippy is, but all of this Compunetix buzz sounds pretty good.
August 28, 2008
We've always associated the phrase "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" with the fears shudders panic trepidation anxiety options of marriage and cohabitation. Yet now the shortened has been working its way around as the title of a book co-authored by WebEx founder Subrah Iyer in the burgeoning softwar
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