.:i think i thought a thought:.

First we saw everything move to the internet.

Now we want everything on the internet to go behind the scenes of all that we are used to.

This is happening with Phones and Videos in particular.

VoIP on your normal phone

Many market players are working on providing us VoIP through normal telephony channels. And they are doing so with attitude and really creative (albeit complicated) ideas. They come up with funny tag-lines like: “taking the phony out of telephony!”

Online Videos on your TV

TiVo could meet Amazon UnBox. Google videos could meet Apples iTV. First they were all worried about piracy - so they wanted us to pay for the videos. Now they want us to be able to see same videos on our regular TVs. It’s all good as long as its significantly  cheaper for me to download a movie rather than buy it in true “flesh-and-blood”.

In both these cases there’s a lot more detail than the headlines tell you. Some phone plans have intricate ways of making calls. The video content has DRM issues. Read more in the links above - and follow the links from that posting. Then you might be running to Rebtel to make ur first free call very soon!