Reading List: Amazon Stretches; The Inevitable ‘Adult’ Market; Whither Twitter?
Today’s Telephony 2.0 Reading List:
Telco Take: Amazon continues to impress. From selling books online, it now delivers a wide variety of digital goods including audio books, music (no-DRM MP3), video (Unbox) and more. Plus its Web services platform and cloud services (storage, database) have set the stage for the company to further spread its wing beyond inventory-addled physical e-commerce.
Telco Take: How’s that for a salacious headline? Eventually, Web-embedded click-to-call VoIP will take hold. Online dating sites seems a likely spot, though the “creeper/stalker” factor could be high. Of further interest is the market for “adult” content — saw a story on the iPhone becoming the iPorn phone today. What will be the operator share of those “sordid” but inevitable revenues?
- Why Does Twitter Go Down?
- The Rise of Twitter as a Platform For Serious Discourse
- Distributed Twitter Alternative: Prologue
Telco Take: Microblogging service Twitter has become hugely popular with the Web-set, but it’s centralized nature makes it hard to keep up and operating — especially in crunch traffic times. Wouldn’t it be nice to have QOS and performance guarantees? But those are telco concepts! Look for the “five 9s” telecom and “good-enough” Web worlds begin to collide as Web services become more mission-critical (or at least cause frustration when they disappear). The alternative, such as the WordPress folks are trying above, is a distributed, P2P alternative to Twitter. But such architectures present their own problems.
