Building Communities, The VoIP Style
Source: voipcentral.org
Two days ago we covered an interesting article on Miss Kandice Melonakos starting her own branded VoIP Service, KanTalk! Our favorite blogger Tom Keating covered it a bit harshly though.
Interestingly Tom found another press release about a website leveraging VoIP to build an online community with voice and video capabilities.
Christmas is the time people make home videos, send Christmas cards and call loved ones on the phone. Now they can do it free through a new family-oriented VoIP and video software called SweetTalk from Gingerbread TV. “The SweetTalk VoicePod is our gift to the families around the world,” says Christine Marie, also known as Mrs. Gingerbread. “And it’s just in time for the holidays.”
These show the arrival of Voice 2.0, and by the signs of it, this is going to make a huge impact in our daily life. Just imagine the few possibilities:
1. Music artists fans can hear the music on their VoicePods, can call the artists, send text messages, leave voice or even a video mails!
2. Communities of housewives and moms interacting with each over these VoIP clients, giving tips to build recipes, taking care of houses, babies etc like never before.
3. Young people from all over the globe can form hubs to discuss anything with more rich interactive experience.
Imagination is the only key. This is far more than what has been possible until now. All I want to say is this a great tool in hands of people to bring them closer at a fraction of cost. These VoIP services are not in competition with Skype, or Vonage, but are building parallel personalized services and communities catering niche clients.
