Canadian Conferencing.

Canada continues to show its strong telecom roots - this time leading the way in the next wave of voice conferencing. Yes, voice conferencing. What's old seem to be new again. Dare I say, Conferencing 2.0? No.

Two start-ups, located on opposite sides of that vast country, made news this week. Iotum - led by a group of overly passionate VoIP preachers - made a splash on Facebook this week by holding the first ever conference call launched out of Facebook itself. Now that I have officially lost 20 years and joined Facebook myself, I can see that this is a killer app among many we will see from inside the pages of Facebook this year and next.

Focused similarly on the industry-old problem that making a conference call is too difficult, the founders of Gaboogie are launching Lypp (into Beta) this month, a voice conferencing service that will leverage simple interfaces like IM (including mobile) to make collaborating from anywhere - with anyone - simpler. And Lypp will call you. No dial-in numbers, no PIN's. Brilliant. Read more about it here.

I seem to writing a lot about Canada these days. Could it be time to go home? No, again.