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By: Shai Berger

Shai Berger — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:09:53 +0000

Alec: Great work and congrats!
A very savvy move for you guys.
I just scheduled my first test conference call.

- Shai

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By: Disruptive Telephony

Disruptive Telephony — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:23:12 +0000

Iotum improves their Facebook conference call app…

What a difference a day makes. WhenI wrote about Iotum’s “Free Conference Call” app for Facebookyesterday, I mentioned that there were a few things still in development. Today, as shown in the image on the right (click on it for

By: Peter Childs

Peter Childs — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:56:58 +0000

This is great Alex.

I’ve long believed that conferencing will be a killer application for any web application that has a social component - and you’d be suprised how may of those there are.

Off now to add it to my Facebook apps list.

By: Alec

Alec — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:21:45 +0000

Absolutely Alex. I’m quite careful about the “free” characterization. You will pay for the charges you would normally pay for on a call — airtime if you’re on a cellular phone, and long distance on a land line. It’s free in the sense that you don’t pay anything additional. For most cell phone users, that means you’re only paying airtime, since coast to coast or North America wide LD minutes are commonly included in your plan.

Agree on the outlook integration.

Re: click-to-call, we actually think that users will prefer the text message reminder, and a call in. There are numerous scenarios where it’s just inappopriate to receive a dial-in (previous meeting is running a little late, etc), where a text message reminder makes more sense.

By: Alex Rootham

Alex Rootham — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:47:24 +0000

Cool idea.
It’s not completely free - there’s no 8xx number to use.
The conference service does not call you (no click2call).
Also needs Outlook integration to be used in business contexts.