The official announcement of our technology trial with Tellme Networks hit the wire March 1st.
Check out the story by VoIPMonitor: Interactive Voice Dialing for PhoneGnome
“PhoneGnome is unique in its ability to support cutting-edge telephony applications,” said Don Jackson, Vice President of Advanced Telephony at Tellme. “With PhoneGnome, we can connect the user to our application
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We’ve put together a tool to create badges for your blog or website. Simply enter your user name (as used on the Support site created when you setup your My PhoneGnome account) , adjust the colors and size of the badge to match your site, and the tool will automatically generates the code to be inserted into your blog template.
The tool
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The PhoneGnome Updater automatically updates your PhoneGnome public profile when you create, publish, or edit a post on your WordPress blog. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.
For example, when you edit a post, your PhoneGnome public profile status gets updated with something like this:
Fiddling with my blog post: PhoneGnome Updater (a WordPress plugin)
PhoneGnome uses the industry standard SIP technology and embraces open, interoperable standards wherever possible.
You can call a SIP address with PhoneGnome simply by entering the SIP address in URI form such as sip:user@service (for example sip:joe@example.com). Such SIP addresses can be called via the ‘Quick Call” feature, entered into your Contacts and called via click-to-dial, and even used as find-me/follow-me numbers.
PhoneGnome free calling just keeps getting better. We have expanded the countries and numbers eligible for PhoneGnome free calling. Latest editions include Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Seoul, South Korea; Taipei, Taiwan; Monterrey, Guadalajara, Mexico City, and Puebla, Mexico, a greatly expanded blanket of numbers in Canada, and more.
If you have tried to establish a free account in the past, and found the number
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VoIP guru, PhoneBoy writes about the abysmal state of end-user VoIP devices. He says:
These devices aren’t sexy. They are exceedingly boring. They all suck to configure on some level, both as an end user and as a service provider trying to remotely provision.
We agree. We don’t understand all the reasons, but it’s been very difficult to work with VoIP device makers. There’s been little progress in improving the utility of these devices for several years.
At its core, the phone is a tool we use to converse and connect with one another. A large percentage of these interactions are with the same people, friends, loved ones, and business associates. Long before wikis, blogs, and social networking sites came along, people were maintaining their real-world social networks, and the phone has been, and continues to be, a powerful tool in building and maintaining those relationships.
We recently confirmed that you can use the gtalk2voip.com service with the PhoneGnome box to answer calls from Gtalk users on your home phone for free and to place calls to Gtalk users using your PhoneGnome-enabled home phone.
Here’s how to set things up to call from Gtalk to PhoneGnome:
Step 1. Subscribe to the gtalk2voip.com service: Open your GoogleTalk and invite user id service@gtalk2voip.com.
Here’s a quick example from a PhoneGnome user of how to exploit the new PhoneGnome 2.0 service when traveling:
I’m normally not one that likes to talk on a PC. I prefer a plain phone for its raw “pick it up and use it” simplicity. The exception for me is when I’m traveling on business. Hotel phones are expensive and confusing, so to heck with that. I could use my cell phone, but
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The following sequence will make it so calls to your home line will be passed through the GrandCentral screening. Until GrandCentral supports SIP calls, we will have to use PSTN as the interconnect (meaning you will have to pay for these minutes), but for some people the convenience may be worth it. Hopefully GrandCentral will support SIP in and out to avoid these costs on the future.
As an overview, here’s what we’re going to do.