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Irwin Lazar, Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

June 27, 2008

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In yet another Web 2.0 meets telephony moment the folks from Iotum have launched Calliflower, a Facebook-based application for conference calling.  Calliflower provides an ability for an organization to host public or private conference calls, with back-channels for participants such as the ability to chat and see Facebook profiles of others on the call, as well as raise hands to ask questions.  Non-Facebook users can also participate via traditional dial-in numbers with PIN codes, or via VOIP services such as Skype and Truphone.  The service launch tonight featured a call with William Shatner, yes, that William Shatner.  In July they will host a call with Alan Alda of MASH fame.

Right now Calliflower is free.  Im still not sure of the long-term business model, but it will be interesting to follow further developments.

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Irwin Lazar

Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

Irwin Lazar is the Vice President and Service Director at Nemertes Research, where he manages research operations, develops and manages research projects, conducts and analyzes primary research, and advises numerous enterprise and vendor clients. Irwin is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in areas including VOIP, UC, video conferencing, social computing, collaboration, contact center and customer engagement.

A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and sought-after speaker and author, Irwin is a blogger for No Jitter and frequent author for SearchUnifiedCommunications.com. He is a frequent resource for the business and trade press and is regular speaker at events such as Enterprise Connect and Interop. Irwin's earlier background was in IP network architecture, design and engineering.

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