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A couple of days ago I noticed Jeff Pulver was putting together a new conference in the field of social communications. 

Today he announced it officially: The Social Communications Summit will take place in New York next February 10-11 and he’s looking for talented and passionate speakers to bring their experience and standpoint of the current status of the intersection of IP Communications with Social Networks.

Deadline for the submission of speaking proposals is Dec 5th, so please get in touch with Jeff if you want to be part of this event.

This latest news confirms that February and March are going to be very hot for the IP Communications industry, starting with ITEXPO East in Miami on Febr 2nd to 4th, going through  this new event by Jeff in New York and ending with the second edition of eComm by Lee Dryburgh in San Francisco.

I like being part of this!

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When I received this, I thought: yes, he’s back. Can’t wait to know more.

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Jeff Pulver informs on his blog that Free World Dialup, the pioneer VoIP service he launched 12 years ago, will not be free any longer. Members now have to pay a $30/year subscription fee in order to continue to use FWD’s services.

I definitely praise this move, and every VoIP user should. It’s an important sign that VoIP is well and growing and that there are services that deserve the support of their faithful users in order to improve their offering and keep giving them high value added services.

I’d also like to point out that I predicted this back at the beginning of this year. If VoIP is providing you with value, as you are used to pay for your cable TV, for you Satellite TV, for your Mobile subscriptions, you have to pay for VoIP too, there is nothing wrong here. FWD is the first VoIP provider which made the big move to switch from free to a very cheap subscription fee, less than 8 cents a day, I bet most of their users will support them.

Nearly 1M registered users a and close to 40.000 daily online users. I call it success, don’t you? Maybe not promoted neither advertised like other services, but definitely a reference in this market.

By the way, I became a paying member back in July 2007, what are you waiting for?

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The demise of Pulvermedia and the resignation of their chairman Jeff Pulver, father of VON conferences, are a big KO for the whole VoIP market.

The biggest short-term problem I see here is all about communication between Pulvermedia and all the players, sponsors, delegates involved with VON conferences. The VoIP market is now taking decisions mainly based on “rumors” and not official news. Pulvermedia website is up and running and if you go to http://www.von.com everything seems like it has always been, but you cannot subscribe to the upcoming VON conference in Amsterdam.

My take is that no more VON conferences will take place in the next months, at least for this year. I hope things will be sorted out soon and VON can survive to this unexpected nightmare. I’m getting emails from people in the VOIP market asking If I had reliable news about VON and if there are other interesting conferences about VOIP somewhere. To me, this is a very bad sign… many companies have lost an important datum point and they deserve a clear and official response.

I can understand that Jeff Pulver, Carl Ford and all the other people involved with Pulvermedia cannot say anything officially, but I do believe that the VOIP market deserves an official response by someone.

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