Building your Asterisk based Business – Part I
Since the inception of GreenfieldTech, back in 2007, we’ve assisted over 40 different VoIP companies to bootstrap their activities and launch their products. During that period, some of these companies had become a great success and some had disappeared from the face of the planet. This series of posts will bring the story of some of them – and we’ll try to analyze what made each company into a success or a failure.
Asterisk, Greed and Revenue Shares
Revenue sharing is one of the oldest methods of earning profits, actually, I believe it may just be right up there with trading of goods and food.
Open Source, Philanthropy and Asterisk
When I started using Open Source software, it seemed like all Open Source projects are driven by philanthropic agendas. We were all focused on “sticking it to the man” – showing all these would be software vendors that community driven projects can do just as well – if not better.
Rock Solid Clouded Asterisk
This post is somewhat a combination of posts from previous posts, mainly, the posts about virtualization and my latest posts about the utilization of Amazon EC2. As some of you may know, a part of what I do at GreenfieldTech is develop various API’s for the Asterisk Open Source PBX systems. Two of these API’s […]
Asterisk 3rd Party API – and their importance
As some of may know, I spend most of my time working as an Asterisk Developer and Consultant in my own company – called Greenfield Technologies Ltd. – named GreenfieldTech for short. Since the day I started my company I knew a few facts and truths: GreenfieldTech starts as a one man operation – thus, spending […]
Hijacked by RTFM to la-la land
I keep a vigilant eye on Google Alerts. To be more exact, I’ve got a few alerts defined, in accordance to subjects that interest me. Two of these subjects are Asterisk and FreeSwitch. Recently, the following had been posted on a personal blog: Chose Freeswitch over Asterisk October 28, 2008 – 12:09 am Posted in Uncategorized […]
Asterisk powers Israel’s 60th independance day information service
Ok, the service is up and running, so now I can show it off. Israel’s 60th independance day parties information service is running of an Asterisk servers – how do I know that, you ask? simple, it’s my Asterisk server! Well, actually, the service is being run by BeLowCall, an IVR and telecom services company, […]
The annoyance of incompleteness
There is nothing more annoying than an incomplete specification design, brought to you as a design document. Why does every person that is capable of operating a word processor at a beginner level and operating Visio at a level of a child, believe that they are able to produce a proper design specification or ever […]