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Facebook Gets New VoIP App |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
A new Facebook application called Phone-Me-Now
allows Facebook members to place free calls from their friends' Facebook
profile pages, without revealing either party's caller ID.
The company, Ifbyphone, was offering the first 1,000 accounts 100 free minutes per month to regular U.S. phone numbers, though we doubt there are any of those left.
Standard
Ifbyphone subscriptions start at $14.95 per month.
After registering for a free Phone-Me-Now account in
your Facebook profile, your Facebook friends can contact you from the friend's area of their Profile. You select the person you want to contact, provide your own number and Ifbyphone rings both telephones, blocks the caller IDs and
conferences the two callers together.
This means you can have personal conversations
with other members while still keeping your own number (and theirs) private.
"Even In this age of online social networking, there are times when
only a real-time personal phone call can convey the right message
between two people," said Irv Shapiro, Ifbyphone CEO. "Phone-Me-Now
makes it easy to connect privately with a friend by phone, without
automatically divulging personal contact details the way caller ID
does, and without leaving Facebook to make the call."
The Phone-Me-Now application widget is basically a phone mashup other Ifbyphone mashups allow inbound, outbound and click-to-call
telephone applications with integrated interactive voice response
dialogs.
Phone-Me-Now is an extension of Ifbyphone's "voice of the Web" services
which are designed for medium-sized businesses and enterprise-level Web presence
deployment.
The widget is available under Applications at Facebook.com by searching
under "Phone-Me-Now". Here is the link http://apps.facebook.com/phonemenow/.
Ifbyphone
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