Free Call Review

INCREASING YOUR LINKEDIN CONNECTONS TO 500+

2007-11-01T17:34:00.001-04:00

INCREASING YOUR LINKEDIN CONNECTONS TO 500+ Overnight:

Time to Log-On…

Click There à Yea…Click HERE

The Link: http://www.themetanetwork.com/component/option,com_comprofiler/task,registers/

Fill out your registration form completely (including the Link to your LinkedIn Public Profile.

*To locate the URL, just click “Account & Settings” on top, then look under Profile Settings, and you’ll see “PUBLIC PROFILE”…the URL is right under there. Just copy paste it into your registration form! Great Success…I LIIIIKE!

3. You will receive a "Pending Approval" email which you MUST REPLY TO.

4. Upon receipt of your "Pre- Approval email" we will verify your registration is complete and APPROVE you.

5. You'll receive a "Approval Confirmation" email…this can take up to 24 HOURS…so be patient!!

24 Hours (or less) later…

6. You MUST Log-in to The Lions' Lair to finish the Registration Process

Time to Download…

7. Once logged In, on the left-side…Click “Download”

8. Click “Lion Invite Lists”

9. Click “Current Invite Lists”

10. Download the bottom one: October2007AcceptALLUPDATE21102007

a. These are LIONS who have Opted to BOTH Welcome AND Accept ALL Invites to Connect on LinkedIn. This File is to be uploaded to Your LinkedIn Account in order to send out Invites via LinkedIn.

11.This is a “.csv” file that can be uploaded to LinkedIn and then sent out…AND EVERYBODY WILL CLICK ACCEPT! (…and NO, you won’t be reported.)

Time to Upload…

12.Go to “Account & Settings”

13.Go to “Personal Information”

14.Go to “E-Mail Addresses”

15.**THIS STEP IS THE MOST IMPORTANT**

a. Remember, when you send invites, you get e-mails that say “This person accepted”…well, you’ll be getting 600 of those, so choose a new primary e-mail address for a week. TRUST ME! Don’t say I didn’t warn you!!!

16.This step is a REMINDER TO DO STEP #15!!!!

17.Once changed, uploading your “.csv” contact list:

a. go to “My Contacts”

b. Click “ + Add Connection”

c. To the right, DO NOT CLICK ‘Check Webmail Contacts’…but, right under that, CLICK à “Don’t Use WebMail”

d. Click “Browse” and find October2007AcceptALLUPDATE21102007 and upload it.

18.Now you have 600+ people in your system read to be invited. Just click “Select All”, make a personal note saying, “HELLO LIONS”.

19...and Wam-Bam!!! You will see the connections grow exponentially!

New Services...

2007-10-31T11:27:00.000-04:00

2 quick notes:

1 - GrandCentral's web-site was down today at 11:15 for around 5 minutes. Not good! They need to implement more plugin infrastructure tools (OSGi, jPlugin, etc.) to keep out the "down-time"

2 - My boss likes my interest in the area of Web Activated VoIP [VoIP technology to deliver the call to your city, and then inter-connects with the plain telephone system, so that no extra hardware is required] I am going to build a list of companies and continue to add to that list, and soon I'll compare charts. As of right now, GrandCentral (recently purchased by Google) is the leading provider of Free WA-VoIP.

[*NOTE TO SELF: Check Out http://www.phonefusion.com/ ! Alan is friends with the owner.]

"Grand Central"

2007-10-30T10:37:00.000-04:00

Grand Central - All The Phone Services You Wanted

(Posted by freakface at 10/03/2007 02:43:00 PM)

Grand Central sent me an invite to try out their service. Grand Central is an abstraction of phone service. By that what I mean is that it sits on top of your phone service - cell, pots, skype, whatever you have, and adds features by being in front of your phone service.

Grand Central is now a Google company, so you know that they're going to be well-funded.

Here's how it works: GC issues you a new phone number, in an area code that you choose. When someone calls that number, GC adds features to your phone service, and forwards the call to up to three numbers until one of them picks up or the call is routed to GC's voicemail.

SO WHAT?
I know. That doesn't sound exciting. It didn't to me, either, but that was before I checked it out. What I'm going to describe to you are features that are optional (as in you can turn them on or off, but they're all free). First, if GC doesn't recognize a caller id as being someone you normally speak to, it first asks them who they are. It then calls you to check if you want to talk to this person, showing you their caller id info. You then have an option: a) Take the call, b) Send the call to voicemail, c) listen to the the other person as they leave the voicemail before deciding what to do (old-style answering machine mode), or d) Record the call.

Features, Features, Features

Record The Call? You now can record that fraudulent telemarketer giving the pitch. For those of you with creditors harassing you, you can record them, too. Yes, you can start recording any call at any time (and you can stop recording, at any time, too).

Old-style Answering Machine? While the voicemail is being recorded you can then either pick up, mark the voicemail to be deleted and hang up (you don't have to continue listening to the voicemail until it's done before deciding to delete it), or decide to save the voicemail and hang up. This whole feature is great for saving cell minutes. If I don't recognize a number I just send it to voicemail while I listen to it. If I then realize it's someone I need to talk to I just pick it up. Otherwise I can either choose to finish listening to the message later or just tell GC to nuke it now so I don't have to waste cell minutes later doing the same thing. Very cool.

Voicemail 2.0 One of the things I love about my VOIP service is that the voicemail is accessible via the phone, but it's also emailed to me and available on the VOIP provider's web site. I think that's so cool. GC does the same thing. So again, I don't have to burn cell minutes if I don't want to for the purpose of dealing with voicemail, because the voicemail is sent to my email as a .wav file, and it is also available at GC's website. UNLIKE my VOIP provider, the email from GC includes a link to click on to go right to the message in GC to delete, save, etc. Oh, and you can have voicemail info sent via SMS to your mobile, if you choose.

Also cool - if you're listening to a voicemail, you can hit a button on your phone (or click a button in your browser, if you're checking it that way) and GC will call the person back without you having to scroll through numbers to find theirs, or write the number down and then try to dial it. If you're listening on the web, GC will first call your phones to get you on the line, then connect the call to the other person. After you're done with the callback, you can just continue to listen to voicemail.

You can also have different people get different voicemail greetings, too. So the wife gets the nice, masculine tone, and the hoops squad gets the f-bombs.

Visual Voicemail For The Rest Of Us So, you dont' have an iPhone, either? With GC you get visual voicemail. Really. It might not look as cool as the iPhone, but it is the same functionality.

Call Handling I REALLY don't want to talk to Joe. No problem. Joe goes right to voicemail. I really don't want my mistress, err, golf buddies getting the house or my cell. No problem. Joe -> voicemail. "Golf Buddies" -> SkypeIn. The wife's got the preggies, and I'm going to be in conference room "B", where we get crappy cell reception. No problem. Call handling in GC is really cool.

Call Blocking My old VOIP provider let me block any number. My new one doesn't. GC does. GC further lets me mark certain numbers as SPAM, which allows me to either send them to a second mailbox within my account (say you have a lawn service that bugs you several times a year to buy some supplemental service, but also calls you when renewal comes around - you can send them to the SPAM mailbox, which you can then deal with whenever you feel like it, toss the junk messages and listen to the one you need). ON TOP OF THAT you can send Spam to a "number not in service" message, which I believe also contains the "magic tones" that telemarketers computer systems use to automatically remove a number from their active database.

Community Blocking GC develops rules based on the feedback of its users. If a bunch of people are getting credit card offers from the same number and mark them as spam, that number is developed into an optional GC rule, which will mean that if you choose to turn on the feature, other GC users will be helping to protect you from telemarketers.

CallSwitch That name is really deceiving. It really should be called "phone switch", because it lets you re-ring your phones in the middle of a call. So - someone calls. It rings the house. The problem is that I'm getting ready to get out the door. I could call them back on the cell, or I could hit a button on my phone, and the call will ring my phones again so I can pick up the cell. Again on the cell-minute-saver, if I'm outside mowing the lawn, and get a call on the cell, I can take it, walk into the house, hit a button, switch the call to the house phone, and save the minutes.

WebCall Skype has this cool feature called "SkypeMe" which you can put on your ebay listsings, your website, an email you send to someone, or wherever. They click on it, and skype rings. This is the same thing, except they're calling your...whatever you have tied to GC. I think this is a neat addition. I can now embed these into emails that I send people and if they want to call instead of replying to the email, they can. I'm going to work on configuring this in just a moment because I think this is a very neat feature. Because of the control that GC gives me, I can send these calls only to my work phone (or in my case my work phones). No, they don't need a headset. GC will call them and then you.

Ringshare When people call you, they no longer get the same sound they get when the call everyone else - unless that's what you want. You can now give them a variety of tones or other sounds. Buddies get the sound of armpit farts when your phone is ringing. The wife gets you telling her how pretty she is. Yes, it's a novelty, but it's cool. Yes, you can upload your own sounds/files, etc. for people to listen to. For now I picked one of the voices they have on the site that says "Welcome to ringback roulette. Place your bets. Voicemail, or will he pick up?

Phone Service, Abstracted
That's what I mean by phone service abstracted. GrandCentral has added a whole new set of features on top of your existing phone service without you doing anything...well, almost anything.

How Do I Join?
As of right now, you have to get invited by someone who is already a member. This is the way gmail worked for quite a while - you got someone who was a gmail member to invite you to join. Yes, it's free.

Moshe "Telephony" Yudkowski

2007-10-29T10:41:00.000-04:00

Today I was fortunate enough to speak to Mr. Telephony, Moshe Yudkowski:

Dr. Moshe Yudkowsky, Ph.D., is the President of Disaggregate. With a Ph.D. in Physics and over two decades of work in high-technology industries, Dr. Yudkowsky applies a wealth of experience to solve difficult problems in business and technology. Dr. Yudkowsky is an author, publisher of numerous articles, and is an accomplished public speaker.

That's right, he actually contacted me and was nice enough to break down his experience with DPN and how well connected he is in the world of VoIP. He is the go-to guy when it comes to VoIP, Speech Recognition, and Telephony Consulting.

-His web-site...
http://www.disaggregate.com/

-His blog....
http://www.pebbleandavalanche.com/weblog

_______________________________________________
And here's how I discovered Moshe "Telephony" Yudkowski

Disposable Phone Numbers

Thursday September 21, 2006 8:29AM
by Moshe Yudkowsky in Articles

A friend recently asked me how many email addresses I had; her family thought she was a geek because she had six. I guess I’m a little more geeky: I have over one hundred eighty email addresses. Every time a company asks me for an email address, I generate a new one just for that company and arrange for incoming mail to show up in my normal inbox (I’ve automated this to a single command line in Linux). If the company abuses my email address by sending me spam, I disable the email address. Disposable email addresses guard my privacy.

I’d certainly like the same system for telephone numbers, because sometimes a company will get hold of my phone number and never let go. (Horror stories deleted; fill in your own.) Internet Telephony provides a solution. One reason Internet Telephony is a revolutionary innovation is that IT takes the ability to establish telephone numbers away from a central authority and gives it into the hands of anyone who wants to terminate calls. Telephone numbers become an unlimited commodity instead of a precious — and lucrative — resource.

Until IT becomes ubiquitous and all telephones can dial using the “sip:foo123@example.com” syntax, I’ve devised an alternative scheme to achieve disposable telephone numbers: use a single telephone line, but assign each company its own extension.

I’ve written a demo Disposable Phone Numbers application in CCXML, VoiceXML, and Java, running on Voxeo’s free Prophecy server. As each call comes in, the caller is asked for an extension number, which the caller provides using spoken words or touch tones. The extension goes to local Java servlet, which does a check of the extension number (it should be a database lookup, but my prototype just checks against a short internal list). If the extension is valid, the call goes through; if the extension is invalid, the application drops the call. If anyone is interested in hearing the pre-alpha — and the user interface is just barely good enough at the moment — they can try it by calling the demo number at +1 312 957 6568, which terminates at a computer on my desktop. At the moment, the only two valid extensions are 3350 and 8932, and all calls are dropped. If there’s enough interest I’ll release the application as open source.

The Question Still Stands....

2007-10-29T00:36:00.000-04:00

[*As I explained in the title of this blog, these are notes for myself, tracking my brainstorms and attempting to organize my thoughts....so if you're confused, it's okay!]

The question still stands…knowing very well that these “free call connectors exist”, how can I combine all these technologies in a cost-effective fashion?

I can offer free calls using “http://www.thepudding.com/”
Figure a way to embed ads in each of the calls. “http://www.jajah.com/advertise/”
Figure out a way to track each call and rate a person through it.

PROBLEMS:

Revenue - How do we target the audience using this service on our sights?
Functionality - How do we keep track of a persons ratings if we're using 3rd party service providers?

DPN Information: Part 2

2007-10-29T00:18:00.001-04:00

The next stage in the evolution of my on-line phone service understanding. These are all great resources and some you have already looked at, but at this point, once you've checked it all out, there's no excuse for you to be out-of-the-loop. Enjoy...

DEFINITION: SOURCE OF LONG DISTANCE REDUCTION

This is accomplished through the use of web-activated VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). This enables people to use the Internet to initiate local or international long distance telephone calls. Unlike most VoIP systems on the market, DingaLing does not require any special software or equipment. We use VoIP technology to deliver the call to your city, and then inter-connects with the plain telephone system, so that no extra hardware is required.

1. Good updates on how personals are doing, and what they’re doing to keep people connected:

http://onlinepersonalswatch.typepad.com/news/match/

2. Directions of Jangl and other phone app’s services

http://cerdafied.typepad.com/cerdafied_voip_mobile_web/2007/01/index.html

SIP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol

3. VoIP Information…

http://www.voipnow.org/2006/07/finding_the_bes.html

4. Services Out there…

LifeStyles:

http://www.grandcentral.com/

http://www.talkplus.com/

http://www.jangl.com/JANGLWEB/Default.aspx?

CheapTalk:

http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/

http://www.jajah.com/info/about/company/

http://www.rebtel.com/en/

http://www.thepudding.com/

4b. An old article on all the services…

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/23/voip-the-details-kill-the-fun/

QUOTE FROM ARTICLE:

"With all the choices for VoIP service now available, it's probably confusing for newbies to figure out what service is best for them. The questions you have to ask yourself, in finding a good rate and service, includes how you'll use VoIP.

Do you plan to call from your computer to another person's computer (PC-to-PC), to their phone (PC-to-PSTN), from your phone to their computer (PSTN-to-PC), or from phone to phone (PSTN-to-PSTN)? (Note: PSTN = Public Switched Telephone Network.)

The cheapest choice, obviously, is free, which PC-to-PC calls tend to be. Your choices at present include Skype, Sightspeed, and Gizmo Project. The latter uses the SIP standard, which means that users of other VoIP SIP-based soft clients can talk to each other across their networks. Clients such as Skype and Sightspeed cannot do that because they use proprietary systems. There are many more choices than those three, but they are the common ones.

For PC-to-PSTN calls, there are services like Babble.net, who have 3-month promo of up to 30 minutes free for calls to certain countries. Skype has this for Canadians and Americans until the end of 2006. For PSTN-to-PC calls, the target person needs to have something like SkypeIn service, which essentially provides a worldwide phone number.

Then there's RebTel, who've made international PSTN-to-PSTN calls very affordable, especially for mobile-to-mobile phone calls. Jajah also offers a combination of free call options, including PSTN-to-PSTN, and is based on the SIP open standard. Possibly to compete with providers such as Babble and RebTel, Skype is currently offering free weekends in July for calls to certain countries.

You can also use the free VoIP capabilities of some IM (Instant Messaging) soft clients such as Google Talk, MSN Messenger, etc., but they are strictly PC-to-PC and are client-specific.

These are just some options available right now. Keep in mind that most of them currently have poor to no support for emergency calling."

5. The next step in the evolution…

http://iotum.com/index2.php

This is the step towards social availability and integrating JaJa

6. This uses Jaja…as does the one previous to this one…

http://www.wazza.com/

Good for recruiters in Australia. But they charge for using the phone-call service

7. Another good example of how jaja is used….

http://www.gumiyo.com/

8. Oh and now I see a new contrast….

Jaja + eHarmony = Secure Call

http://www.eharmony.com/singles/advice/2007/07/secure-call/

Jangl + Match.com = MatchTalk

http://www.match.com/help/helpdtl.aspx?sec=60&lid=108

….So there’s popularity with # protection and connection! We see the need, but how do we create our own Niche for that need? Lets continue digging around.

9. September 27, 2007 Jajah launches a solution named "Jajah Buttons" which enables small businesses or individuals to embed buttons on their Web sites to allow others to contact them by phone using the company's Internet telephony platform. Jajah Buttons caused a notable controversy when eBay removed and banned such buttons from auction listings in eBay's site, presumably to protect revenues from its own VOIP solution provided by Skype. ^{[2][3] [Wikipedia.]}

10. Ahhh…but we find a downside…

http://www.jajah.com/info/help/faq/freecalls/#05

What’s the JAJAH “Fair Use” Policy ?
What’s the JAJAH “Fair Use” Policy ? The JAJAH Fair Use Policy allows us to offer free calling to our users. To provide the maximum number of free minutes to the most users, JAJAH must balance the cost of free calls with the revenue we receive from paid services (such as paid calls, text messages, scheduled calling, and conference calls). To preserve this balance, JAJAH sometimes limits free calling minutes on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
JAJAH asks its customers to pay from time to time. If you choose not to pay, JAJAH may need to limit your free minutes. To take advantage of free minutes, users should deposit funds into their JAJAH account.

11. Note sure what this is, but Wikipedia mentioned it in the competitor list…

http://www.dingaling.ca/

12. jaja’s big in the news, when eBay banned their usage on sight, b/c of partnership with Skype…

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/10/04/ebay-jajah-skype-tech-cx_rr_1004jajah.html

EBay hung up on an Internet startup company on Thursday: Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet phone company Jajah got huffy on Thursday when eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) removed the startup's new call-enabling buttons from its auction listings. EBay said the buttons violate the company's policy of linking to outside communications channels so as to protect eBay users from fraud.

13. Now GrandCentral, Jaja, and Jangl have widgets, but so far, GC and Jaja have an option to reveal and are considered 100% free. Let’s take a closer look at to how Jangl really works…

http://gigaom.com/2007/05/24/jangls-new-social-voice-service-first-step-to-white-pages-of-voice-20/

“Lets’ say if you meet someone and the only information you have about them, is their email address. You can go to Jangl website, and enter their email address. The Jangl system assigns them a temporary phone number, and allows you to leave them a voice mail message, which is then forwarded to their email inbox. They can choose to call you back, using Jangl assigned temporary number. You can do the same with someone’s instant messaging identity as well.”

14. Competitors… From Jangl’s business perspective, it is part of Jangl’s evolution as a voice services company, moving beyond the anonymous calling (which is paying some of the bills right now.) It also allows the company to compete with Jaxtr and Wengo in the social networking/social media space.

15. So Jaxtr = LinkedIn Co-Founder quits and joins Jaxtr….READ ON!!!

http://gigaom.com/2006/12/14/linkedin-co-founder-quits-joins-jaxtr/

16. An advice service, using this phone service to make calls cheaper and the niche is social networking/media, based on finding the right advice.

http://www.wengo.com/

17. Boopsie is just awesome for search on blackberry….

http://boopsie.com/home/

18. okay, so back to the subject!!

http://www.secondrotation.com/

This sight is the sh*t! No question…okay fine, now back to the task as hand…

29. Let’s compare widgets…

http://www.jaxtr.com/user/customize.jsp

http://www.grandcentral.com/webbutton/post/fb2772ca3474e21e07e703accce2a47f

http://www.jangl.com/JANGLWEB/WidgetGenerator.aspx

21. More about….

Jaxtr….

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/20/jaxtr-out-of-private-beta-link-your-phone-to-your-web-page/

Jangl….

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/23/jangl-tailors-voip-for-social-networks/

GrandCentral…

*Well, it’s still pretty new. I think they are the #1 priority for me right now!!!!!

21. The future of social networks based off this story,…

http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/CorporateNews/en/13650386/Jangl-Voice-Enables-Fubar-Suddenly,-It's-Easy-to-Talk-to

22. Internet Start-Ups….

http://hartfordbusiness.com/news3243.html

23. Free phone services are multiplying

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/24/business/PTEND25.php

24. Properly placing the WIDGET!!

http://www.gigya.com/site/default.aspx

25. In the News:

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_7110470?nclick_check=1

DPN Information: Part 1

2007-10-28T23:53:00.000-04:00

Follow each step-by-step and track my thought process. By the time you’re done with this, you’ll have a complete understanding of the market and why I want to be a part of it.

1. THIS DESCRIBES “numbr’s” service…easy as 1,2,3!

http://lifehacker.com/software/telephone/get-a-free-anonymous-disposable-phone-number-at-craigsnumber-222921.php

2. From Disaggregate, which incidentally is the same company that I learned about DPN from:

http://dpn.sourceforge.net/#About+Disposable+Phone+Numbers%E2%84%A2

3. YES! Wow this service exists, it’s recent and only Match.com has it (or so I though...See DPN Information: Part 2). It’s called MatchTalk!

http://www.match.com/help/helpdtl.aspx?sec=60&lid=108

4. They provide VoIP for Match.com

http://gigaom.com/2006/07/17/jangl-this/

5. How it happened….

http://cerdafied.typepad.com/cerdafied_voip_mobile_web/2006/11/matchtalk.html

6. ”Semi-Anonymous VoIP Online Dating”

http://www.voipnow.org/2006/11/semianonymous_v.html

“To that end, a new service, MatchTalk, from dating site Match.com, uses VoIP technology from Jangl to set up calls between two members without revealing phone numbers. It's nothing new; Jangl offers their own semi-anonymous calling. Match.com has just integrated Jangl tech [Alec Saunders] into their offering. MatchTalk sets up a unique phone number between each two members that want to connect, so their own phone numbers don't have to be handed out until and if they are ready.”

7. History of on-line dating businesses…

http://gigaom.com/2006/07/09/matchactivity-a-new-online-dating-site-launches/

I need to find the Niche that accomplishes Dating, Advice, etc. via VoIP as opposed to extensive on-line profiles.

8. The most up-to-date Dating Service…AJAX, SKYPE, GoogleMaps, etc.

http://www.verbdate.com/

9. Facebook has an application, PhoneBook, but no fake # provided…

http://startupsquad.com/2007/08/28/jangl-now-on-20-million-profiles/

10. Competitor to Jangl…

http://jaxtr.com/user/aboutus.jsp

11. This is just cool!

http://www.ooma.com/

12. I still like this service and would feel comfortable partnering with them.

http://www.tossabledigits.com/

13. So now we’ve come full circle…

http://www.match.com/help/helpdtl.aspx?sec=60&lid=108

14. Now this company GrandCentral is cool. A one-stop-shop call forwarding number….read the reviews…

http://lifehacker.com/software/cell-phones/grandcentral-offers-free-unlimited-inbound-calls-217654.php

15. More on the company….

http://lifehacker.com/software/telephone/one-phone-number-to-rule-them-all-203629.php

16. PROOF that this space is growing….

http://www.grandcentral.com/

…at this point, there’s no question that this huge! After Verizon started selling information to 3^rd party advertisers, imagine the spam that’ll come through if these companies sell their phone # lists.

You know what’s popular? Instead of charging, companies will make the service free in exchange for imbedding advertising in each call!! To better check into this space,

17. So now we have to look into Targeted Advertising in Phone calls.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/24/thepudding-targeted-advertising-comes-to-phone-calls/

18. Lets look at who started “ThePudding”

http://puddingmedia.com/

19. This is huge….

http://puddingmedia.com/com_provider.html

19b. What is ARPU?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_revenue_per_user

20. So, now we have to figure out cell phone advertising. Then breakdown actual “IN CALL” advertising…

http://www.clickz.com/3627412

21. GOOD ARTICLE....

http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/269350

“There has been lots of speculation and a dearth of actual announcements, but suffice it to say that Google is eager to insert itself into potentially hundreds of millions of pockets around the world – possibly upending the cellphone industry in the process.

"There are more cellphones in the world than there are laptops," Penry Price, the vice-president of advertising sales for Google's North American operations, said in an interview. "If we don't get into the space, we've got a big problem."

With 61 per cent of the global market for Internet search queries and one of the most successful online advertising models around, Google continues to push aggressively into new areas in a bid to sell more ads and open up new revenue streams.”

22. This is what originally sparked my interest!

http://about.blyk.com/

23. The question still stands, who will I use to advertise in the actual call? (*Read the comments that talk about in-call-advertising options.)

http://www.libervis.com/topic/google_unobtrusive_video_advertising

23b. More on calls…

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/business/media/24adcol.html?pagewanted=print

24. ….AND THERE WE GO! BOOMMMMM….

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/15/jingle-awarded-patent-for-free-411-calls/

WALA…we have now discovered there’s a patent!!

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,212,615.PN.&OS=PN/7,212,615&RS=PN/7,212,615

QUOTES:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070615005143&newsLang=en

“Delivering an ad based on a consumer request is fundamental to the free directory assistance business model,” said Matt Booth, senior vice president and program director of Interactive Local Media at the Kelsey Group. “This patent gives 1-800-FREE411 a distinct advantage in the increasingly complex free 411 space.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/business/media/14adco.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

“The mobile phone can reach everybody and it’s always on, but we need to rapidly define our industry standards to be able to benefit from this opportunity,” Arun Sarin, chief executive of Vodafone, said in a speech yesterday in Barcelona. Vodafone is the largest mobile phone operator by revenue.

“If you can get something for half-price or for free if there is a bit of advertising, and that can be done in a noninvasive manner, that’s compelling,” said Chadd Knowlton, general manager of the content access and protection division of Microsoft. “We’ll continue to see richer and better mobile advertising across all kinds of content.”

Free Call Review - It all starts here....

2007-10-28T15:03:00.000-04:00

This is my first blog entry of all-time, and I've come prepared. This is how it all started...

This is a GrandCentral Widget. You can call me via this widget and block your number. But let me tell you, it does sooooo much more. I'll get into that later.

It all began like this: I was interested in "Phantom Telephone Numbers", also known as DPN - Disposable Phone Numbers. I will provide a step by step understanding, basically a HyperLink Journey that will bring you up to speed on what you need to know in order to follow this market. Stay tuned for the next posting.