Under The Radar: Business Calls

At UTR for the day, and it looks like the down economy is hitting tech: the room is one third empty.

Ellen Girt of Fast Company is moderating the Business Calls session, with Ryan Floyd, Brad Stone, and Dave McAllister as judges.

Eyejot

David Geller, CEO.

Video email… yawn. ‘There is nothing wrong with email.’ Huh?

Competing wih services like Userplane on one hand and Qik and Seesmic on the other.

Trying to push into white labeled version.

Works on the cell phone, but didn’t elaborate.

Real Estate agents?

I vote no.

Ribbit

Crick Waters.

An open telephony platform. First app is Ribbit for Salesforce.com: integrated telephony.

Over 3500 partners have signed up to build apps, an affiliate marketplace.

looks like they are emulating Salesforce.com.

Amphibin is their planned consumer product.

Not a complex unified comm solution,a focussed solution for the professional.

i vote yes.

Vello

Mark Dwonsic.

A conference call solution for calling out. Focussed app solving a small but consistent headache.

Web and blackberry.

15 cents per minute is about double market price. Is that possible? Panelists are dubious. Says he could trim his margin.

Doesn’t plan an API.

I vote no.

Brad says ‘Watch out for the VOIP guys.’

Conclusions

Too much reliance on a developer network.

A lot of discursive talk about advertising models, which has nothing to do with the three companies we saw.

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Stowe Boyd