ECommConf ‘09 - Day 3
Posted on | March 5, 2009
I am was at the Emerging Communications Conference going on in San Francisco this week from the 3rd till the 5th of March. Here is the official schedule.
Since I got positive feedback on my Future of Mobile summary I decided to use a similar format for ECommConf. Each talk has a short description and rate.
Here are the reviews by day:
Day 3 (Wednesday, March 5th)
- The First Technology Administration - What Will Mean For the Future of Communications?, Maura Corbett, Qorvis
- New User Experience for Voice, Matt Ranney, RebelVox
- Cookie Scale Computing: Human-Computer Interfaces as Piles of Smart Little Things, Jeevan Kalanithi, Taco Lab
- A White Box. A Vision of Our Evolving Mobile World., Mark Rolston, Frog Design - Funky presentation showing some inspirational video clips about the user interface and experience of the future. - 5+
- “Slow Communication”, Stefan Agamanolis, Distance Lab
- The Last Two Years, The Next Two Years, Thomas McCarthy-Howe, The Thomas Howe Company
- Taking a SIP of Java - Building Voice Mashups using SIP Servlets, RJ Auburn, Voxeo - Telling us how Java is obsolete. I didn’t listen after that - 3
- Voice Applications: The Wheel Has Already Been Invented, Martyn Davies, Dialogic - Missed this one. Sorry.
- Suing AT&T for a Trillion Dollars While the President Tries to Stop You, Brad Templeton, Electronic Frontier Foundation - Missed this one. Sorry.
- Teens and Connectedness, Daniel Brusilovsky, Teens in Tech - 16 years old Daniel has a very interesting speech about how teenagers view technology. He is a star not only because of his age but because he has some very good points. Well done Daniel ;) - 5
- Software-Driven Natural Communications, Xuedong Huang, Microsoft - how Microsoft sees the future of communications. Xuedong showed us this video (not really the whole video but good enough to get the point).
- Panel: Spectrum 2.0 - What’s really happening?, Brough Turner, Ashtonbrooke - I was not very interested in this one and can not comment - 3
- The Race to the “Next Big Thing” in Mobile Phones, Ricky Yuen, Qualcomm - nice overview of hardware components in mobile devices. The limit price for a HW component adding by an OEM is provider 1$ :) - 3+
- The Myth of Spectrum Scarcity: Opportunistic Access to the Airwaves, Michael Calabrese, New America Foundation - skipped this one. Sorry.
- Where’s the money in Voice 2.0?, Martin Geddes, BT - video clip with some excellent concepts. Following Google’s model, Martin suggests that money should not be earned on final customers but in enabling business do more money. - 4+
- TeleDarwinism, Crick Waters, Ribbit - Many good concepts from a company that revolutionized telephony and was aquired by BT. - 4
- Eight Centers of Gravity: The New Rules of Mobile, Andreas Constantinou, VisionMobile - Cool presentation. - 4
- Mobile Digital Broadcasting: An Infrastructure for One-to-Many Converged Services, Francois Lefebvre, Communications Research Centre Canada - everything you need to broadcast TV on mobile devices. Fits in a backpack and is composed from opensource software. Funky! - 5
- Tinkering without Tampering: Wrestling with Convergence and Communications Policy, Richard Whitt, Google - Policy stuff. Not very interesting for me, but was apparently interesting for others. - 3+
- Netbooks, MIDs, Tablets and Emerging Communication Devices, Ram Fish, ex-Nokia - interesting insights about the process of selecting hardware and software for a Netbook or Tablet. Ram should know best as he has probably been working on Nokia’s netbook :) - 4
- Asia’s Best of Breed - Learning from the World’s Largest and Most Advanced Mobile Markets, Benjamin Joffe, +8* - great presentation exposing some really interesting data about how things are done in Asia. Learned a lot. Benjamin has also a great presenting style - 5
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