Look Ma: No Skype-In
Click here. TalkPlus CEO Jeff Black demos a call from a Motorola handset equipped with TalkPlus to the Skype echo123 user. Echo123 has no Skype-In number. Sleight-of-hand? You be the judge. The video is unedited.
The impact on Skype/Ebay could be huge. Right now, Skype-Out minutes are free. Their revenue is from licensing, and from an annual 30 euro fee for Skype-In. Why buy a Skype-In number if TalkPlus can do the job?
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November 16th, 2006 at 3:05 am
[...] Alec Saunders observes, The impact on Skype/Ebay could be huge. Right now, Skype-Out minutes are free. Their revenue is from licensing, and from an annual 30 euro fee for Skype-In. Why buy a Skype-In number if TalkPlus can do the job? [...]
November 26th, 2006 at 8:44 am
[...] Skype Journal points out that “TalkPlus has engineered a server without Skype components that talks to the Skype network as if it were a Skype client using Skype’s own language.” Alec Saunders thinks “The impact on Skype/Ebay could be huge. Right now, Skype-Out minutes are free. Their revenue is from licensing, and from an annual 30 euro fee for Skype-In. Why buy a Skype-In number if TalkPlus can do the job?” [...]
December 2nd, 2006 at 1:39 am
[...] Phew what a few days, numerous meetings including breakfast today with the powerhouse Jeff Black of Talkplus. who was accompanied by Talkplus head of business development Valeria Temple Jeff has a gold plus product on his hands and demoed the famous Echo123 Skype call live to myself and Shel Israel. Over the last 5 years I have seem some interesting products but none have blown me away like this. We reconvened @ the Talkplus headquarters this afternoon and Jeff done a complete run through on the product and this only strengthened my believe in the future of this amazing tool Technorati Tags: Jeff Black, pat phelan, roam4free, Shel Israel, talkplus, telecoms, Valeria TempleShare and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
March 1st, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Does anyone know what the status of this is? The whole story seemed to simply disappear.