But Will They Come?

In an thoughtful post this week, Phoneboy Dameon Welch-Abernathy poses the question: Is there Money in Voice APIs? In his exploration of this question, Welch-Abernathy looks at Jaduka, IfByPhone, and Ribbit.

He writes: "But is simply providing an API to your telephony infrastructure enough to prompt the world to beat a path to your door? Don’t count on it." The bottom line is that those mashups have to be useful answers to real business problems.

Truphone Poised for World Domination?

While others in the VoIP-sphere are speculating about whether Google will buy Skype, Dameon Welch-Abernathy at the VoIP Weblog has several interesting posts about Truphone's "plans for world domination" enabled by its purchase of SIM4Travel and US$32 million in new investment.