• October 2nd, 2012

    What We Learned Running A Mobile Network At Burning Man

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    This ia a guest post by Tim Panton, a senior engineer at Voxeo labs.

    I’m in the middle of the desert in Nevada – a dusty, half-naked guy walks up to me:

    - “You have working cell service here ?”
    - “Yes, we built our own.”
    - “I have to make a call, can I use it?”
    - “Sure.”

    He makes a call to sort out a family emergency and then heads off back to his camp with a working mobile… → Read More

    May 13th, 2012

    How The Future Of Web Advertising Is Linked To The Call [Updated: It Already Is]

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    We’re all now familiar with how adwords campaigns on Google work. You buy keywords commonly used in search terms, such as “plumber in X town”, and send people to a response mechanism, usually a web site. But increasingly that response mechanism is not a just a web site but a phone number as well – sometimes it’s even just a phone number. But these days it’s rarely an ordinary number – it’s usually… → Read More