Jajah is one of the ultimate PR machines nowdays. They just took a plain callback service, wrapped it into pretty words, got on internet, now they say it is supported by mobile phones, actually any webbrowser enabled one... You see, I am a tech guy by nature and I know that their "revolutionary" technology does not worth a penny, actually about a business week of my work. But thats the business and they are great to sell this product. However, what they've done last week was a pure PR attack on eBay and Skype. Everyone knows that eBay does not allow external links but they did it and I bet they knew where it will end. After all, would Jajah allow links to "skype me" on their pages? I doubt that.
eBay on the other hand manages Skype for 2 years (as far as I remember). What "cool" did they do with it? Nothing just rumors about management changes. Creating something similar to what Jajah does would be no more but a week of the Skype developers work, then add 2 months of burocracy and you've got it in less then 6 months. Instead they are not doing that by themselves and are not letting the other to do that. "The Dog in the Manger". But that is also a business. Their business.
That is my personal opinion and I am not trying to make myself look like a techy nerd. I do understand them both perfectly and walking in their shoes on the today market would most probably force me to do the same steps.
I just don't like when business slows down technology, but that's something rather religious ;)
I follow you, Michael, and I agree with what you're saying. Business will always slow down the technology, but it's a very difficult issue since the technology is needed for what? it's easy to say "for people", it's needed to business, to sell the services to people. the technology in itself is something people can not use... it's difficult, let's leave it to another discussion.
btw, if you're here and in a good mood,- you may want to comment also on this I suppose- Iotum lancia un’applicazione per conference calling su Facebook? It would be nice to hear your professional opinion in respect of Facebook (as a plug-in based framework for web 2.0 services) and the "conf.call" feature as an emerging service for Social Networks on-line...
Posted by Andrey Golub on Monday, October 8th, 2007 at 10:09
let's leave it to another discussion.
OK, n/p, even if it was the point of my post
;)
you may want to comment
I would want to, but I can't, I am working on a similar technology/project, which will be presented to public soon. I am not a political expert, but one thing I know for sure, if you are working on a thing which you can't yet use as an argument, don't comment on similar ones ;)
Posted by Michael on Monday, October 8th, 2007 at 10:28
OK, so do not comment on it :) It's enough to hear what you've already said. We'll be waiting for your news... good luck!
Posted by Andrey Golub on Monday, October 8th, 2007 at 10:50
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