EduTone ... connecting all the dots!

Welcome to my new Blog!

As the CEO of an education technology company, I intend to share with you my journey that will take us together to a new frontier in technology, and possibly in education as we know it today!

The title: EduTone ... connecting all the dots, summarizes the destination of our journey!

So first what is EduTone? Edu: short for Education, and Tone: short for web-tone, similar to dial-tone in the telephony network, the indicator of availability of the web services network infrastructure utility, that should always be on!

So ... EduTone is the utility computing infrastructure for the Education vertical market.

Connecting all the dots is a slogan that I had originally picked for VIP Tone, which I founded in April 2000 (http://www.viptone.com), and it means exactly what it says! We need to connect all of the dot com's of the education world, i.e. the web services, into a single web-based delivery infrastructure.

I like to use the Cable Companies as a metaphor for EduTone ... the cable company delivers to us a single service delivery infrastructure, that consists of the set-top box that is connected to our TV's through a fiber network, which aggregates (or syndicates) 100's of content channels (like HBO, MTV, Comedy Channel, etc...) from various content sources. The cable company provides one service delivery infrastructure for all of these channels, a unified billing system, and a single customer call-center and a customer service infrastructure. Could you imagine a similar model for aggregating (and integrating) web services for our schools? well ... that is EduTone.

Welcome to an EduTone World! I look forward to our journey together.

To get started, please take a tour of the new EduTone Xchange website: http://www.viptone.com/prod_edu.html As we continue our journey together, I will update my Blog with any new developments in our EduTone World. I hope to hear back your feedback, thoughts and comments.

Thanks for joining me!