Dean Elwood joins Truphone
Written by dean on Nov 28, 2007 - 02:34 PM
I'm pleased to announce that I joined Truphone as Platform Director in October.
"Platform" relates to a backbone that supports and enables the operation of additional products which Truphone will release itself, and to ultimately enable third party developers to create applications on the Truphone network.
What I bring to Truphone is many years experience in the industry including consumer demands and expectations, market analysis and an ability to deliver products that fulfill those opportunities.
What Truphone offers to me is a commercial, mobile, platform on which to do that.
VoIP User will continue in the way that it has for the past four years - to remain independent and continue to deliver timely discussion to all following this industry space.
Truphone is a company that I have been following for some time, and one of few companies that I believe has the potential to deliver converged services in the mobile space.
One project at Truphone that I have been involved with for a few months, and since before joining officially, is a new Click to Call application, launched today.
There are several click to call/callback/speak type applications already on Facebook. The differentiator here, and the interesting part about this application (and also the hardest part) is that we’ve embedded a JAVA based softphone right into the heart of Facebook. This makes the experience from a user point of view seamless with the Facebook environment. The user never leaves Facebook, they speak into Facebook. Additionally, the "call me" button for this application is not restricted to your own profile page - it functions as a Facebook attachment, which means it can be dropped onto a friends Wall, or added to a Facebook mail message or any other attachment-accepting application which exists on Facebook now or might do in the future.
Those of you with accounts on Facebook can give it a try here:-
http://apps.facebook.com/truphone
This is in quiet test at the moment. It’s publicly accessible but still being worked on.
"Platform" relates to a backbone that supports and enables the operation of additional products which Truphone will release itself, and to ultimately enable third party developers to create applications on the Truphone network.
What I bring to Truphone is many years experience in the industry including consumer demands and expectations, market analysis and an ability to deliver products that fulfill those opportunities.
What Truphone offers to me is a commercial, mobile, platform on which to do that.
VoIP User will continue in the way that it has for the past four years - to remain independent and continue to deliver timely discussion to all following this industry space.
Truphone is a company that I have been following for some time, and one of few companies that I believe has the potential to deliver converged services in the mobile space.
One project at Truphone that I have been involved with for a few months, and since before joining officially, is a new Click to Call application, launched today.
There are several click to call/callback/speak type applications already on Facebook. The differentiator here, and the interesting part about this application (and also the hardest part) is that we’ve embedded a JAVA based softphone right into the heart of Facebook. This makes the experience from a user point of view seamless with the Facebook environment. The user never leaves Facebook, they speak into Facebook. Additionally, the "call me" button for this application is not restricted to your own profile page - it functions as a Facebook attachment, which means it can be dropped onto a friends Wall, or added to a Facebook mail message or any other attachment-accepting application which exists on Facebook now or might do in the future.
Those of you with accounts on Facebook can give it a try here:-
http://apps.facebook.com/truphone
This is in quiet test at the moment. It’s publicly accessible but still being worked on.
Reply from tjardick on Nov 28, 2007 - 05:14 PM
And i hope that we can see some exciting things from TRUphone in the near future!
Tj
Reply from MartinB on Nov 28, 2007 - 11:57 PM
Reply from tangle on Nov 29, 2007 - 02:41 PM
Reply from rgower on Nov 30, 2007 - 11:05 AM
Reply from dean on Nov 30, 2007 - 08:37 PM
One of the nicest things about this industry is the friendliness that exists. Thank you also to...
Moshe
Andy
Alec
Dan
Pat
... for the kind words.
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