{"id":30232,"date":"2011-05-26T11:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=30232"},"modified":"2016-12-08T16:51:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T21:51:41","slug":"story-of-vonage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/story-of-vonage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Voice on the Net &#8211; The Story of Vonage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abby Johnson of WebProNew interviewed the co-founder of Vonage, Jeff Pulver, about VoIP and how the broadband phone company got its start.<\/p>\n<p>Pulver\u00a0talks about his roots in\u00a0amateur radio, the first social media, where he learned to\u00a0&#8220;listen, connect,\u00a0share, and engage\u00a0with people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With no background in telecommunications he accepts that he&#8217;s known as the &#8220;Forrest Gump of communications&#8221; but won&#8217;t apologize for being lucky.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Pulver\u00a0is focused on his\u00a0fascination of the evolving social web and how people connect with people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having\u00a0warned phone companies of the challenges they&#8217;ll face if they dont understand social media, Pulver&#8217;s efforts are now directed to\u00a0wherever people are having a conversation with iniatives like the 140 Character Conference aimed at the worldwide Twitter community and the effects of\u00a0real-time internet on businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abby Johnson of WebProNew interviewed the co-founder of Vonage, Jeff Pulver, about VoIP and how the broadband phone company got its start. Pulver\u00a0talks about his roots in\u00a0amateur radio, the first social media, where he learned to\u00a0&#8220;listen, connect,\u00a0share, and engage\u00a0with people.&#8221; With no background in telecommunications he accepts that he&#8217;s known as the &#8220;Forrest Gump of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-based-voip-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114773,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30232\/revisions\/114773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}