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1. Hosted Asterisk 2. Hosted Termination Provider. and access to both via api's that u can use within ur web 2.0 applications. I think that the idea is GREAT, and will allow many people to do many many things, but YES, by now products should have come like this for asterisk already. Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Ribbit.com ? From: Matthew Rubenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Asterisk -Biz <[email protected]> Copies to: Rehan AllahWala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:41:14 -0500 > Why is it taking so long for OSS SIP or IAX clients embeddable in web > pages? There's one or two products out there, while desktop clients are > fairly plentiful. If "Web VoIP" clients were as plentiful as, say, MP3 > players, then the "Voice Web" would be growing probably as fast as the > Web itself once did. > > > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 07:10 -0700, Rehan Allah Wala wrote: > > Any one tried this yet ? > > > > > > > > > > Ribbit Pulls Back the Covers On Its Voice 2.0 Master Plan (And Raises > > $10 Million B Round) > > Erick Schonfeld > > 12 comments » > > > > > > ribbit-small.pngIn case it isn´t abundantly clear by now, voice is > > just another application-bits that can be co-mingled with other data > > in unexpected ways. Ribbit, a startup that officially launches today > > and calls itself "Silicon Valley´s first phone company," takes that > > concept as its basic premise. It wants to be the platform company for > > Voice 2.0 applications. If its plans succeed, there will be thousands > > of new phone apps appearing soon, and they almost all will be Flash > > apps. In other words, these won´t be stand-alone pieces of software > > like Skype. They will let people make calls right from the browser and > > tie deeply into other apps and data on the Web. > > > > > > "If you were to invent a phone company today," asks CEO Ted Griggs, > > "what would it look like?" It wouldn´t be just cheap calls over the > > Web or a one-trick startup built around a single feature like > > click-to-call buttons. No, says Griggs, who founded Junction, a VoIP > > software company he merged with Summa Four and sold to Cisco in the > > late 1990s. It would be a complete end-to-end environment where > > developers who know nothing about telephony could plug into and > > quickly create Web-based phone applications. Ribbit recently closed a > > $10 million B round led by Allegis Capital, with KPG Ventures > > participating. The company also raised $3 million (the amount was > > previously undisclosed) from Alsop Louie Partners in October, 2006. > > > > > > ribbit-chalk-phone.pngToday´s launch is a developer launch, not a > > consumer launch (that will come later in the first quarter of 2008). > > It is releasing a more robust version of its APIs for its private > > developer beta, which is open to any programmer. Already, about 600 > > developers have built Ribbit apps under certain restrictions (they are > > not allowed to go live on the Web until early next year). These apps > > range from an Adobe AIR iPhone that can make calls from your computer > > to a Flash phone with a chalkboard interface to a browser-based phone > > that works inside Salesforce.com (see screen shot below). > > > > > > All of these phones can call other Web-based phones (including Skype), > > VoIP phones, or regular landline and mobile phones. Ribbit handles the > > calls and other voice-related services (call logs, voice messages, > > speech-to-text transcription,contact imports, directories, > > provisioning, billing, security, authentication) and provides the APIs > > to developers, who build their apps with Adobe´s Flex development > > tools. (Ribbit does not support Ajax apps because Ajax does not let > > you access the computer´s microphone, says Griggs, but he might > > consider extending support to Silverlight, which does). Ribbit will > > create its own consumer and enterprise phone apps, but it will also > > host a marketplace where consumers and businesses can find (and buy) > > Ribbit apps. > > > > > > For the most part, Ribbit plans on charging for its calls. "There is a > > company a week that tries to avoid paying for the call. We are not > > doing that," says Crick Waters, senior vice president of strategy. It > > is free to play with the API´s and develop a Ribbit phone application, > > but once it goes into production and actual calls begin, Ribbit will > > start charging. Pricing will start at $30 a month for 20 simultaneous > > sessions, or seats (for, say, call center reps logged into the > > application making and receiving calls), plus per-minute fees to the > > regular phone network. (Internet calls are free). The developer can > > then choose to charge its customers or provide it for free, and make > > up the cost in other ways. There probably will be free consumer apps > > from both Ribbit and its developers, but the business opportunity here > > is for enterprise voice applications that can be charged for. Instead > > of developing a custom call-center application for $250,000, for > > instance, an entrepreneur could build the same thing for much less on > > Ribbit and charge, say, $5 a month per customer service rep (with > > Ribbit taking $1.50). > > > > > > ribbit-diagram-2.png > > > > > > At its core, Ribbit has built a telephone switch in software, known as > > a soft switch. It works just like a switch made by Lucent or Nortel. > > Except that it is software running on hosted Linux servers. Ribbit´s > > "class 5´´ switch has been tested in Lucent´s labs and passed with > > flying colors-meaning it is as reliable as any telco switch, Griggs > > assures me. Ribbit´s soft switch can send calls to regular phones, > > mobiles, Voice-over-IP, Voice-over-IM, and Web pages. It supports many > > voice protocols (SIP, Skype, Google Talk´s XMPP). Through its APIs, > > Ribbit will give developers access to all the functionality of its > > phone switch. "In the old days," says Griggs, "it was a hardware box > > Lucent built talking to a hardware box that Nortel built. Today, there > > are a lot of clients people are using." Want to create a unified > > messaging service that follows you wherever you are, even ringing on > > your IM or in your browser? No problem. > > > > > > Sending phone calls over the Web is not what makes Ribbit interesting, > > though. What makes it interesting is that it offers a way to create > > voice apps in a familiar Web application development environment that > > can easily be linked to other Web apps. Voice is just a feature of the > > Web, and Ribbit recognizes that. The Ribbit phone created as a demo > > for Salesforce.com, for instance, will not only let sales people make > > calls to prospects directly from the browser-based CRM application. It > > will also log the call. And in the next release, it will be able to > > record portions of a call at a click of the button and transcribe it > > (Ribbit uses speech-to-text technology from SimulScribe). Other > > developers have used the same transcription functionality to create > > phone apps that let people leave voice messages on blogs or on > > people´s Facebook FunWalls that then get turned into text comments. In > > the future you might call a friend and hear, "Press 1 to leave a > > private message, Press 2 to leave a message on my FunWall." Ribbit has > > big ambitions. If it can deliver on half of them, it just might become > > Silicon Valley´s first phone company. > > > > > > Here is a screen shot of the Salesforce app (click to enlarge): > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Rehan Ahmed AllahWala > > Msn/Yahoo/GoogleTalk/Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > http://www.supertec.com/ - Internet Telephony Solutions > > Http://www.DIDX.net - DID Number Market Place. > > Don't Remember Me ? Visit http://www.Rehan.com > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, > > then you win." > > By Gandhi. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > > > asterisk-biz mailing list > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > -- > > (C) Matthew Rubenstein > Rehan Ahmed AllahWala Msn/Yahoo/GoogleTalk/Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.supertec.com/ - Internet Telephony Solutions Http://www.DIDX.net - DID Number Market Place. Don't Remember Me ? Visit http://www.Rehan.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." 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