My best WebRTC writing?
It’s been a year since I’ve written my first WebRTC post in this blog. Who would have thought I’d reach 89 posts on WebRTC on this blog alone, with guest posts on other blogs as well. Time for a short recap – or should I say a list of my best work?
But how do you define best work? Is it the number of views on a post? The number of comments? Shares on social networks?
I have no clue.
As I like most of my writing (wouldn’t have done it if that wasn’t true), I decided to go for the bit.ly test. Most of my posts are shared through bit.ly by me, so I just sorted them out by number of clicks, too the top ones related to WebRTC so far – and curated them here. The links on all these posts are bit.ly links – just for the fun of it.
If you’re new here – like 3-4 months new – you might find the older stuff I’ve written interesting. If you are old – you might want to fresh your memories – making this list sure did that for me.
1. My best WebRTC 101 post: What? You haven’t heard of WebRTC yet? (You will…)
I’ve written on Amdocs Voices an explanation on what is WebRTC and what it is capable of doing. Most clicks there – probably from fellow employees… still a piece I am proud of (especially as the editor who worked with me on it made it super professional – a lot better than my usual writing).
2. The Anatomy of a VoIP Spec – and How WebRTC is Different
I liked writing this one. I have been brewing about it for quite a long one before sitting down to write it. I tried explaining why WebRTC really is different than what came before it, stripping VoIP protocols to their essence to do that.
3. Why Will SIP Lose the Innovation Game to WebRTC?
When I wrote in the past about SIP and XMPP, there were regular people coming to the rescue of XMPP. Now that I write about WebRTC and SIP, there are regular people coming to the rescue of SIP.
Not exactly, but close enough. There’s no wonder then why a comparison post between SIP and WebRTC around innovation got so many clicks.
4. There Will Be No WebRTC Skype Killer
A recent post that got people reeling. I am an avid supporter of WebRTC, but I try to be objective about it, which leads me to writing such posts – WebRTC is great, but it is still just a technology – what you make of it is what makes it magical. That said, I don’t think it stands a chance against the likes f Skype as a strategy – and I do hope I am wrong.
Conferences are great places to get ideas for new posts, meet people and engage with the industry. I assume that people returning back from the conference couldn’t help themselves but share the post I’ve written after the WebRTC conference in Paris last year.
I think this post holds a nice bulleted list of insights I got from that event.
6. Five Types of WebRTC Companies
A simple mapping of the different types of companies who use WebRTC. I’ve written this one after seeing in my interviews the “virtual buckets” I can use to cluster the vendors I interviewed. It gives me an easy way to tag companies and business approaches as they are vastly different from each other – and all are valid.
7. WebRTC Weekend Reads (and updates)
An attempt I did at curating great WebRTC posts that occurred in a specific week by fellow bloggers. Was it shared because of the links inside it or because of the photo of my daughter reading a WebRTC notebook?
8. How To Implement Multipoint Video Using WebRTC: Large Groups
The last in a series of posts about implementation architectures of multipoint video calling for WebRTC. It was a project that took up a lot of my time.
9. Weekend Reads: WebRTC All Over
This post started my tradition of publishing posts on Fridays as well. I did it because I noticed that week that there was just too much good content out there about WebRTC at that week, and I had the urge to share it with my readers. All post links in this post are still valid today and probably will be for months to come.
10. How Will WebRTC Manifest Itself on Mobile Devices?
Mobile is an interesting aspect of WebRTC. One that is still untapped. In this post, I tried explaining how will WebRTC find its way into mobile devices and how it will eventually be used in such an environment.
–
All in all, it was a really fun year!