Godfather of SIP Working With Adobe For Flash VoIP Play
Written by dean on Sep 22, 2006 - 10:32 AM
Om Malik picks up where James Enck left off in the summer about Dr. Henry Sinnreich, sometimes referred to as “The Godfather” of SIP (together with Henning Schulzrinne), working for Adobe.
Adobe want to make it easy to embed VoIP into web pages using Flash, much in the same way as it has developed embedded video systems.
http://featured.gigaom.com/2006/09/22/f ... -voip-pan/
The real key here is competition. Adobe want Flash to be the mainstream tool of choice for embedding multimedia of any kind into web pages. For Flash to survive, that has to happen.
The problem is, Web 2.0 has thrown up all manner of web widgets (see Google and Yahoo! personalised home pages), flakes and wags which has given rise to compact applications like Busta (I've just interviewed Nick Ogden, president of Busta. I'll be posting that up shortly, watch this space).
As Om has touched on, size is important. How small can you keep Flash Player while building in a fully functioning SIP stack?
I think this is where the modular design of the Widget/Wag/Flake (whatever - these terms drive me nuts!) beats Flash hands down.
Lots of little thin applications beats one big do all "Player" any day of the week on the internet in its current form. Speed and choice are everything.
Dean
Adobe want to make it easy to embed VoIP into web pages using Flash, much in the same way as it has developed embedded video systems.
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| Sources say Sinnreich is helping the [Adobe] team, though we have no details about his role within the project. He was most recently the chief technology officer of Jeff Pulver’s VoIP greenhouse, Pulver.com, and prior to that worked for MCI.
The Adobe start-up team faces quite a few challenges. For instance, it would have to support multiple VoIP protocols, and it will also have to figure out how to keep the overall size of the Flash client size small. Sources say that touching Flash Player is like messing with God inside Adobe, and the start-up team needs to figure out how to embed a SIP stack inside the player without making it bloated. |
http://featured.gigaom.com/2006/09/22/f ... -voip-pan/
The real key here is competition. Adobe want Flash to be the mainstream tool of choice for embedding multimedia of any kind into web pages. For Flash to survive, that has to happen.
The problem is, Web 2.0 has thrown up all manner of web widgets (see Google and Yahoo! personalised home pages), flakes and wags which has given rise to compact applications like Busta (I've just interviewed Nick Ogden, president of Busta. I'll be posting that up shortly, watch this space).
As Om has touched on, size is important. How small can you keep Flash Player while building in a fully functioning SIP stack?
I think this is where the modular design of the Widget/Wag/Flake (whatever - these terms drive me nuts!) beats Flash hands down.
Lots of little thin applications beats one big do all "Player" any day of the week on the internet in its current form. Speed and choice are everything.
Dean
Reply from jimiinc on Sep 24, 2006 - 10:26 PM
http://voipandenum.blogspot.com/2006/06 ... adobe.html
http://eurotelcoblog.blogspot.com/2006/ ... -that.html (scroll down about halfway to the Adobe item)
Funny how everyone seems to have missed it for three months.
Reply from dean on Sep 24, 2006 - 10:33 PM
You know it's funny, I knew I had heard about it before, but couldn't remember if it was something that someone told me with a "don't mention this in public yet please" disclaimer. I probably read it on eurotelcoblog in the event.
I'll re-word my post in the morning.
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