A few months ago, we decided it was time to formally make an R&D group within VoodooVox. R&D’s always been a key part of what we do, but as the company grows and expands its activities – and as we have more resources dedicated to ongoing operations and core product development – it’s become time to separate out our exploratory work as deserving of its own focus and resources. And so we’ve created VoodooLabs.
We’ll be using this blog to do a few things:
- Talk about upcoming releases from VoodooLabs that touch the outside world
- Muse about the brave new world of telephony in which we participate
- Show off a few things that haven’t been released yet
We live in a world where the meaning of telephony is undergoing a fundamental overhaul. The ever-declining price of transport and interaction, combined with technologies that make development easier and more accessible to a larger audience, mean that there’s a whole new group of people playing with phones these days. As we’ve been saying within the company for years now, it’s not unlike the early stages of the Web, as people scramble to build new value chains and revenue models to support the explosion of new telephone-based applications.
Or maybe “explosion” is too strong a word – because it looks like the real explosion is yet to come.
Nick Branstator
General Manager, VoodooLabs
nick AT voodoovox DOT com
