Digium Has Relaxed Google AdWord Policy

As I reported earlier and completely support the whole idea of protecting Digium's rights, some people have seen it from a different point of view.
I have seen Mark coming to Linux World with a handful of people and doing all the hard work of popularizing Asterisk. That was when Digium was a small company. I am sure some of these same folks who are profiting from those hard work may have laughed at Asterisk at that time!. Anyway that hard work certainly has proved to be fruitful.
Whatever the case, it seems that a lot of people do not like the adwords restriction as the decision has affected their marketing plans. Since Digium learned that apparently they underestimated the number of organizations that were utilizing Digium trademarked terms in their Google AdWords marketing campaigns and how swift the Google's AdSense crew were. This together with inadequate planing and time period to effectively make changes, it is also understood that the hardships were larger than the benefits. So the resulting change will reinstate trademark rights for the vast majority of those using the terms. For the confusion and frustration created by this event, and Digium apologized to those who are affected.
You can find the complete inside the Asterisk article here.

tag: digium, google, adsense, asterisk, adwords

Jajah with Oridian Offer Opt-in In Call Adverticements.

Jajah today announced that they will offer an opt-in in-call advertising platform to bring the bottom line higher. Jajah have joined Oridian to bring the task to the fore.
The non intrusive advertisement is overlaid above the ring tone right before the call starts ( this might introduce a slight delay before the call is connected, I wonder). But this method is said to guarantee the callers attention to the adverts, at the same time not alienating our users with intrusive messages. I again wonder, how is this going to work with me? as I am a slow dialer, I check for the dial tone, then the phone is in my hand, I dial and bring the phone to my ear, (Any one doing differently?).
But all those wondering disappeared as I continued to read the news and said a big "YES", why you may ask;
"JAJAH users can effectively earn back their entire phone bill, or even make money while talking to their friends and family."
This is what brought small little search engine, Google to be the giant in the business. Pay the people who helps to earn the bucks, advertisers and publishers alike got rewarded in Google AdSense program. So in the case of Jajah and Oridian, Callers, Advertisers and the men in the middle, all gain compensation. I like it.
When Jajah came out, I said Disruption in VoIP IP Telephony field, and they continue to break new grounds.
Congrats and God Speed in the new disruption.
Jajah Press Release. (I will try to limit press release publishing until I get my site together)
Advertisers, agencies and Publishers (Mobile, fixed line, cable and VoIP operators) Go here to Join the program.

tags: jajah, oridian, advertising, in-call advertising, ip telephony, telephony 2.0, voice 2.0

Voipniche steals for Adsense

VoipNiche.com has been stealing posts from all over the place. I was notified of this fact by a comment left over by a reader.
But I got a laugh today reading eurotelcoblog. He posted an article referring to voipniche.com stealing posts. And the post appeared on the site unedited! Ha. May be Adsense money is too attractive to this person.
In case post get deleted I have captured the post. If you notice, he times your post earlier than the copied post, making it appear that you copied the article.

Update 2:
I have taken down the links to voip_niche, you need use cut and paste URL's if you was to see his articles.

UPDATE:
Well this post appears on vopniche.com before eurotelcblog's post. This is what I meant by timing posts to be earlier than the original post.
This post appears at this link
voipniche.com/adsense/voipniche-steals-for-adsense.html voipniche times your posts differently mine are about 5 hours early. He even tracks back your links.
Hello Rob, at FreePBX, remove VoIP_niche track back link, the original article is here on this blog!

Links;
Eurotelcoblog post on voipniche
voipniche.com/voip/will-steal-for-adsense-revenue.html/ Same article on voipniche

Tags: voipniche