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[perkiset]

So. PinkHat and I decide to escape the kids, clients and y'all for a night last night and head off to a local boutique hideaway. Life is good till I realize that I DON'T HAVE MY PHONE.

Panic ensues. However, after a Xanax beats back the DTs, I remember that my iPad is SIP connected to my VOIP account which, some of you may remember, PinkHat and I have converted to. Our business lines are there and our personal lines are moving, as well as us being "dialed extension" away from a couple clients. Much more than Vonage, this mechanism allows me systems-level control over whatever I want to do with phone streams.

After making/taking a couple calls from my iPad as if I were at my desk, I remember that I've been working towards this for a long time and it's slipped in when I wan't paying attention. Much more than GVoice or Skype or whatever, this is my for-reals desk lines, home lines and more, available with me wherever I go. And not just on my phone, but on my pad, notebook etc.

So now as I sit here, listening to my Macbook Pro fans spool up in the Arizona heat, I remember why I was on such a jag to make it all work. The geographically abstract office. It isn't perfect yet, but damn, it's getting pretty close.

[Phaëton]

Sounds pretty cool!!

Too bad telemarketing is dead .... if only it had lived to see VOIP in all its glory!

I was doing some super sick sms marketing last summer with Gvoice... just
contacted hundreds of people an hour with google voice sms off of a craigslist
ad that said 'text this number..' then i could take 100 responses in an hour as opposed
to answering the phone, giving my pitch, etc...   And to think 10 years ago i ran up
a 500$ SMS bill when I had the infosphere sms me whenever a sale was made, in real
time..before I realized the messages were 1$ a piece.. ha!