Alec Saunders SquawkBox

Our guest this morning was Irv Shapiro, CEO of Chicago based Ifbyphone.  Ifbyphone is a converged voice and web solutions company that made some big announcements at eComm a couple of weeks ago.  Irv told us a little about his company's vision for creating voice mashups, and then his offer to give away up to 1 million minutes of telephony per month to developers at eComm.  The Mashup API they use is analagous to a web form, which makes it simple and easy to use.  AND, perhaps most interesting to readers here, they have a partner program that will share revenue with developers.

Enjoy! 

 

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Cubic Telecom's Pat Phelan asks Will iPhone become the junkyard for Facebook's failed voice applications?  Perhaps a better question might be simply for "failed voice applications". After all, Facebook is an environment where the expectation is free.  If the experience isn't sufficiently compelling that it can't be given away, then perhaps it needs a rethink.

Food for thought.