Disruptive Telephony

I found it somewhat fascinating to see that Skype has posted a job opening for a "Manager, Skype Developer Community". The job description includes this:

Your challenge is to drive the Skype Community program that moves the new platform forward, compliments our platform product investments and ultimately delights our partner community and users. Your success will be measured by your ability to work closely with the product teams to develop a comprehensive developer marketing plan, and work with our marketing, product, and business development teams to evangelize Skype's tools, development environment, and unique value proposition to the development community.

You will be part of the newly formed Skype Platform team whose mission is to lead the adoption of Skype's Platform with developers and ISVs. The team is resourced and chartered to secure the future of the Skype Platform with developer audiences that span corporate and commercial developers, device developers, next generation developers in startups, students and social developers that writes plug-ins, widgets and mash-up applications today.

For those of us watching the emerging communication/telephony space, we've seen Skype make several different attempts over the years to create a successful developer program. Given their incredible user base and platform, it's been curious to see that they haven't yet found the right formula. I'm intrigued by this part:

The team is resourced and chartered to secure the future of the Skype Platform with developer audiences that span corporate and commercial developers, device developers, next generation developers in startups, students and social developers that writes plug-ins, widgets and mash-up applications today.

Particularly the part about being "resourced".

I do hope that Skype succeeds, as they are definitely one of the more disruptive players in this space and it is certainly fun to see what they do.

If you want to be part of that disruption, fit their qualifications and are okay about working in either London or San Jose, their job notice has links to apply for the position.

Technorati Tags: skype, voip

In about 2.5 hours, at 11am US Pacific / 2pm US Eastern, I (Dan York) will be participating in a "Hosted Speech Solutions" webinar sponsored by Speech Tech Magazine. I'll be joining colleagues from Microsoft (TellMe), Angel.com and Convergys. We'll be talking about each of our hosted offerings and then answering a series of questions before then throwing it open to questions from the audience.

If you would like to join in and learn about our solutions (and those of our competitors), you can register for free.

Technorati Tags: voxeo, dan york, danyork, speech, hosted, cloud, cloudcomputing, ivr, voice, voip

If you are in the San Francisco area (perhaps for VoiceCon?) and are interested in "emerging communications" or "emerging technology", would you like to join a group of similar folks at a dinner Wednesday night (Nov 12, 2008)?

Lee Dryburgh, the organizer of the eComm Emerging Communications conference, is hosting a private dinner in conjunction with Thomas Howe at the San Francisco Airport Marriott (Burlingame). There are currently some 50+ folks attending and some seats left and if you are tracking or pushing things forwards in the communications space you may like to try and reserve a seat (75.00 USD) by emailing Lee.

I'll be there, naturally, along with Thomas Howe, Eric Burger, Ken Camp, Sheryl Breuker and many others who are involved in the space. If you do want to join us, please email Lee very soon.

Technorati Tags: ecomm, ecomm2009, voip, san francisco

While out at ITEXPO in Los Angeles last month, I had a chance to meet up with Jeb Brilliant (yes, that's his real name), someone who I had come to know through all the various Squawk Box conference calls/podcasts that I had participated in. He joined me as I was walking the show floor and then back at the Voxeo booth he asked if he could record a very brief 30-second video interview with me talking about what Voxeo does. He has now posted that video and you're welcome to check it out.

Technorati Tags: ccxml, commdev, dan york, danyork, itexpo, sip, voicemail, voxeo

I've been a LinkedIn user for years but only recently started paying attention to the "Groups" feature... and noticed a group related to Skype that does include people associated with Skype, such as Peter Parkes. It's not clear to me yet how much discussion will occur within the group, but if you are a LinkedIn user also interested in Skype, you may want to check it out.

Technorati Tags: linkedin, skype, social media