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2006/3/1

ether: google answers meets google's click to talk

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@ 12:35 PM (26 months, 22 days ago)
http://i.keen.com/D32_etherbeta-105x45_V1.gifHere's the newest WEB 2.0 toy spreading fast through the blogosphere: Ether.com. It offers an easy way to phone-connect experts in any domain to people requesting advices. Ether.com handles a_party billing in advance, hides both phone numbers so they stay in control, makes the IVR calls to connect the parties at given times and more. Overall an interesting idea to watch over; if they survive the obvious spam and fraud attacks they will encounter. They seem to have a massive background architecture behind the simplicity of their idea; which is great news. So besides the hype-inflated huge fonts and the Apple-freaks ruby on rails bubble-type of presentation they seems to really carry a business model around.

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2005/11/24

google's click to call

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@ 11:11 AM (29 months, 29 days ago)
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/898/google28qf.jpg here's some fresh news for adwords users. Google started testing their new application, called click to call (screenshots, FAQ, slashdot). It's basically an extension to Adwords, by which advertisers can reach web users by phone. The search for certain keywords brings a small telephone icon, and when it is clicked, one can enter his phone number. Then Google calls both parties, via some VoIP protocols it seems, and connects them. The billing is done on the advertiser side; via adwords, therefore the call is free for the user. Google invested a lot into VoIP protocols, and will probably loose money at first by investing them into infrastructure, but will soon recover them via adwords. Most adwords advertisers already have up to date phone numbers in their accounts, therefore just one approval away, we'll see massive scale phone advertisement real.

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