Comments on: Vo(IP) Shows Up In Strange Places http://gigaom.com/2006/07/26/voipshows-up-in-strange-places/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:39:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ali Daniali http://gigaom.com/2006/07/26/voipshows-up-in-strange-places/#comment-58790 Ali Daniali Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:39:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/voipshows-up-in-strange-places/#comment-58790 <p>Hi Om, Celltell voiceNotes for Backpack is made by me and has been adopted by 37Signals as a cool application.</p> <p>I loved Backpack so much but when I was traveling and had something to remember I wanted to put it in my Backpack account. So I wrote the application out of necessity. Looks like others have the same need :) To use it you only need a FREE Backpack account and a telephone number. I've tried to keep it really simple to use. But at the end of the month I'll release an admin for the application.</p> <p>Since it was mentioned above, the application is really hosted on Voxeo's commercial IVR system. They liked it so much they sponsored it and moved it from their staging servers to their production servers as long as the application stays free. Which it will be.</p> <p>I also plan on building an integration into Backpack's calendar system, so you can add an event to your calendar through the same phone call.</p> <p>Check it out at http://www.celltell.tv/backpack</p> <p>Thanks for the write up.</p> <p>-Ali Daniali</p> Hi Om,
Celltell voiceNotes for Backpack is made by me and has been adopted by 37Signals as a cool application.

I loved Backpack so much but when I was traveling and had something to remember I wanted to put it in my Backpack account. So I wrote the application out of necessity. Looks like others have the same need :) To use it you only need a FREE Backpack account and a telephone number. I’ve tried to keep it really simple to use. But at the end of the month I’ll release an admin for the application.

Since it was mentioned above, the application is really hosted on Voxeo’s commercial IVR system. They liked it so much they sponsored it and moved it from their staging servers to their production servers as long as the application stays free. Which it will be.

I also plan on building an integration into Backpack’s calendar system, so you can add an event to your calendar through the same phone call.

Check it out at http://www.celltell.tv/backpack

Thanks for the write up.

-Ali Daniali

]]> By: Adam Kalsey http://gigaom.com/2006/07/26/voipshows-up-in-strange-places/#comment-58789 Adam Kalsey Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:38:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/voipshows-up-in-strange-places/#comment-58789 <p>Looks as if voiceNotes is using a commercial VoIP vendor that sends voicemails as MP3 or WAV attachments. You register the phone numbers you're going to call from. When you leave a voicemail they parse the incoming email, compare the caller ID to their registered accounts and then use Backpack's API to publish the audio file to your account.</p> <p>They've registered different numbers (perhaps Vonage virtual numbers at $5 a month?) to give more people local calling options.</p> Looks as if voiceNotes is using a commercial VoIP vendor that sends voicemails as MP3 or WAV attachments. You register the phone numbers you’re going to call from. When you leave a voicemail they parse the incoming email, compare the caller ID to their registered accounts and then use Backpack’s API to publish the audio file to your account.

They’ve registered different numbers (perhaps Vonage virtual numbers at $5 a month?) to give more people local calling options.

]]> By: Jason Fried http://gigaom.com/2006/07/26/voipshows-up-in-strange-places/#comment-58788 Jason Fried Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:19:57 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/voipshows-up-in-strange-places/#comment-58788 <p>Omster… voiceNotes is built for Backpack, but we didn't built it. It was build by a Backpack customer. We just linked it up because we liked it so much. It's really useful.</p> Omster… voiceNotes is built for Backpack, but we didn’t built it. It was build by a Backpack customer. We just linked it up because we liked it so much. It’s really useful.

]]> By: Jon Gales http://gigaom.com/2006/07/26/voipshows-up-in-strange-places/#comment-58787 Jon Gales Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:33:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/voipshows-up-in-strange-places/#comment-58787 <p>The announcements for LJ/Gizmo have already hit the wires. No need to speculate.</p> <p>http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060726/20060726005559.html?.v=1</p> <p>http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060726/20060726005283.html?.v=1</p> The announcements for LJ/Gizmo have already hit the wires. No need to speculate.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060726/20060726005559.html?.v=1

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060726/20060726005283.html?.v=1

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