Jonathan Taylor, founded Voxeo with a desire to change the computer telephony industry. He describes his journey from supplying mass storage to BBS operators to his current venture developing XML telephony solutions.

In this presentation from the 2006 Emerging Telephony Conference, he describes how Voxeo has made computer telephony and voicemail more accessible and how open standards are contributing to the next generation of VOIP telephony applications.

Taylor says early computer and voicemail telephony solutions were needlessly complex and inaccessible to most customers. Inspired by the idea of a call-center style application to provide access to e-mail messages, Taylor developed the first e-mail-by-phone application. This led to the founding of Voxeo with the mission to make it easy for everyone to create, integrate, and deploy easy-to-use telephony applications. Voxeo's pioneering use of open web standards in its XML telephony platform proved popular among developers, who made use of Voxeo's free developer program and hosted infrastructure. Reverse telephone number lookup for driving directions is one of the many applications made possible by the simple development environment.

Taylor previews Voxeo's latest product, Prophecy, which aids the rapid deployment of voice over IP telephony applications.