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Who are you? How do you introduce yourself? Do you use a name, or do you greet a friend by the last 4 digits of his social security number? Assuming you don’t, why are we content to associate our identity with 10 random digits assigned by our phone company? Identity is an issue that affects […]
For roughly the last 125 years, the telephone has been the dominant form of real-time communication over distance. However, the last major innovation was to make it mobile, which effectively happened 20 years ago. Prior to that, the major innovation was the telephone keypad, circa 1950. It should be no surprise, then, that people are […]
That smartphone in your pocket has already replaced your watch, your camera, several volumes of books, whatever music device you may carry, and even in many ways your desktop computer. As technology continues to gobble up and replace legacy devices with ever smaller hardware and ever more capable software, why are we still stuck with […]
This post is part of a series on the Five Tenets of a Modern, Multi-Modal, Real-Time Communications Application. Adaptability In this first post on the Five Tenets of RTC Apps, I want to talk about Adaptability. In short, Adaptability is the quality of adapting the communications to the device and capabilities available. In the image […]
Over the last year, I’ve been gathering thoughts, speaking and listening at conferences, and working on applications with customers. These activities have shaped my thinking on the kinds of real-time communications applications that are available today, and the kind I think will be available tomorrow. As these thoughts have gelled, I have distilled them down […]