muckster

Google Docs Spreadsheet here.

signed:

  Bob Austin, Professor of Physics, Princeton
  Hal Lewis, emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Will Happer, Professor of Physics, Princeton
  Larry Gould, Professor of Physics, Hartford
  Roger Cohen, former Manager, <b>Strategic Planning, ExxonMobil</b>

'One of these four is not like the others....'

And with this post, the latest COMPLETELY pointless waste of my time, it's now official: Hacker News has jumped the shark.

Slashdot RIP Digg RIP Reddit RIP Hacker News RIP

I've just been through this.

1) Skype for business isn't. They have less-than-zero customer service. One example: http://bit.ly/4fYnwz. They don't have any support option apart from their forums. And Google Voice is limited to windows PCs. No OS X, Linux, mobile or hardware options.

2) Expensive

3) Damned expensive

4) Hosted VOIP has won for us. We use voipfone.co.uk and I can't say enough good things about them or their services. They have every feature imaginable - including things like voice-mail-to-email and 'Press 1 for Sales'. They use SIP protocols so your hardware and software choices are hardly limited. They use astericks so you can get free trunking to other businesses/locations using astericks. Hosting your own astericks server would be very good too, but I suspect for the scale you're considering, voipfone.co.uk or something similar in your part of the world is the cost-effective way forward.

good luck!

Why are rich people so uncreative?

Well then let them follow the trajectory that SMS has - since in many ways twitter is just SMS over HTTP. Let twitter be coerced into interoperability like the telcos have ( http://bit.ly/jft6w ). Surely the necessary technical bits could be plucked from XMPP.

I LOVE it. I've been thinking of and meaning to make something like this for ages - thanks for doing it for us! Now, get out of my head. :D

quality of life != standard of living