asterisk users - Mar 2007 - Alec Saunders post about Mashable Telco's

Interesting read in Alec Saunders blog today.
http://saunderslog.com/2007/03/01/mashable-telcos/

 

Thought it may interest some people on this list.

 

As food for thought, why it is that ITSP's haven't come up with more
'interesting' voice applications? When asterisk first became available I
thought it was the beginning of seeing really neat applications, think
Verzion's iobi but for everyone.

 

I mean I love Angel.com's (www.angel.com <http://www.angel.com/> )
1800
speech enabled services on demand but I want it available via a SIP
gateway to hook up with my own phone numbers, and I cant wait for more
people to implement Iotum so when I try to make calls I wont continually
be hitting voicemails (www.iotum.com <http://www.iotum.com/> ) but I
still think it is missing 'pieces' for widespread adoption.

 

Where are the really interesting asterisk applications for hosted
ITSP's?

 

Can anyone on this list name a Gee Wizz application they cant live
without? (or are we still just coding ex-girlfriend routines?) 

 

 

Regards,

Dean Collins
Cognation Pty Ltd
dean@cognation.net
<mailto:dean@cognation.net> +1-212-203-4357 Ph
+1-917-207-3420 Mb
+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).

 

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Dean Collins wrote:
>
> Interesting read in Alec Saunders blog today. 
> http://saunderslog.com/2007/03/01/mashable-telcos/
>
> Thought it may interest some people on this list.
>
> As food for thought, why it is that ITSP?s haven?t come up with more 
> ?interesting? voice applications? When asterisk first became available 
> I thought it was the beginning of seeing really neat applications, 
> think Verzion?s iobi but for everyone.
>
> I mean I love Angel.com?s (www.angel.com <http://www.angel.com/>)
1800
> speech enabled services on demand but I want it available via a SIP 
> gateway to hook up with my own phone numbers, and I cant wait for more 
> people to implement Iotum so when I try to make calls I wont 
> continually be hitting voicemails (www.iotum.com 
> <http://www.iotum.com/>) but I still think it is missing ?pieces? for
> widespread adoption.
>
> Where are the really interesting asterisk applications for hosted ITSP?s?
>
> Can anyone on this list name a Gee Wizz application they cant live 
> without? (or are we still just coding ex-girlfriend routines?)
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean Collins
> Cognation Pty Ltd
> dean@cognation.net
> <mailto:dean@cognation.net>+1-212-203-4357 Ph
> +1-917-207-3420 Mb
> +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).
>
Yes, please give me the next "Big Thing", "Gee Wizz"
application too!
Free business ideas are great! I really like the ad for inventors to 
call a toll free number to give the company your ideas.

Anytime I see someone rallying enthusiasm and then asking for free 
ideas, I ask myself, "what is in it for me?". Call me selfish, but 
certainly my ideas are worth something, especially my "Gee Wizz"
ideas.

Thanks,
Steve

I don't think it is a matter of GeeWhizz, for me it is about simple  
things that make my life easier.

1) I get an SMS from meetme when the first joiner arrives , the sms  
has the DID of the conference room in it.
2) I get calls from asterisk when one of our servers are down. The  
calls are placed by a box on the PSTN so
it doesn't require any network resources.
3) If I want content delivered to mobiles I can use asterisk to spot  
a  UK mobile number and have it send an
SMS to the caller containing a link to the content I want to push.

On the otherhand there were a number of weird and wonderful asterisk  
based devices here at eTel,
like the dtmf steered vacuum cleaner or the front door you can open  
with a phonecall.

Tim.


On 2 Mar 2007, at 07:35, Dean Collins wrote:
> Interesting read in Alec Saunders blog today. http:// 
> saunderslog.com/2007/03/01/mashable-telcos/
>
>
>
> Thought it may interest some people on this list.
>
>
>
> As food for thought, why it is that ITSP?s haven?t come up with  
> more ?interesting? voice applications? When asterisk first became  
> available I thought it was the beginning of seeing really neat  
> applications, think Verzion?s iobi but for everyone.
>
>
>
> I mean I love Angel.com?s (www.angel.com) 1800 speech enabled  
> services on demand but I want it available via a SIP gateway to  
> hook up with my own phone numbers, and I cant wait for more people  
> to implement Iotum so when I try to make calls I wont continually  
> be hitting voicemails (www.iotum.com) but I still think it is  
> missing ?pieces? for widespread adoption.
>
>
>
> Where are the really interesting asterisk applications for hosted  
> ITSP?s?
>
>
>
> Can anyone on this list name a Gee Wizz application they cant live  
> without? (or are we still just coding ex-girlfriend routines?)
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean Collins
> Cognation Pty Ltd
> dean@cognation.net
> +1-212-203-4357 Ph
> +1-917-207-3420 Mb
> +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).
>
>
>
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Tim Panton

www.mexuar.net
www.westhawk.co.uk/

Somebody make an application where I can browse to a web front end, set
up some RSS feeds, and the system assigns me an access number or PIN.
Later, when I am stuck in the airport, I call the app, and a decent TTS
engine reads me my RSS feeds. 


Cory Andrews

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve
Totaro
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:55 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Alec Saunders post about Mashable Telco's

Nerd Vittles has some pretty cool apps for news and having your email
read to you.  I am downloading now, hopefully it is halfway decent. 

Thanks,
Steve

Dean Collins wrote:
> Lol - I didn't mean it that way besides there is a big difference 
> between discussing an application and replicating it.
>
> Besides if you are out there selling something the general public is 
> going to know about it.
>
> Or should I be checking your public website for the super duper cool 
> ones :)
>
> Seriously though why aren't we releasing cooler applications? (and 
> when the hell is someone going to do something more with the text to 
> speech weather app then just weather?)
>
>  
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean Collins
> Cognation Pty Ltd
> dean@cognation.net
> +1-212-203-4357 Ph
> +1-917-207-3420 Mb
> +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).
>
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>> bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro
>> Sent: Friday, 2 March 2007 11:19 AM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Alec Saunders post about Mashable
>>     
> Telco's
>   
>>> Where are the really interesting asterisk applications for hosted
>>>       
> ITSP's?
>   
>>> Can anyone on this list name a Gee Wizz application they cant live 
>>> without? (or are we still just coding ex-girlfriend routines?)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Dean Collins
>>> Cognation Pty Ltd
>>>
>>>       
>> Yes, please give me the next "Big Thing", "Gee
Wizz" application too!
>> Free business ideas are great! I really like the ad for inventors to 
>> call a toll free number to give the company your ideas.
>>
>> Anytime I see someone rallying enthusiasm and then asking for free 
>> ideas, I ask myself, "what is in it for me?". Call me
selfish, but
>> certainly my ideas are worth something, especially my "Gee
Wizz"
>>     
> ideas.
>   
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>>     
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