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There’s a conference in Miami this week focusing on the concept of Online Dating, while up the street is another on adult dating. One of the people hanging out and making news there is Jangl CEO and founder Michael Cerda who tells VoIPWatch that Jangl "let’s them practice safe dating. Online daters love Jangl because it gives them privacy, mobility and control, and choices as to how they want to communicate. We suit a fast, mobile world by connecting the lives we lead online to the ever-present mobile device.

At the conference Jangl announced that the world’s largest free online dating site, PlentyofFish.com will use Jangl’s SMS, calling and voicemail service to reach PoF customers. So like PoF itself, Jangl’s service there will be ad-supported making it a first for Jangl.

Unlike some of the other ad supported, VoIP powered plays out there, this one sort of makes sense. It gives the daters the ability to save money and spend money on what they need to focus on the most. There dates.

Source: voipcentral.org

Way back in December last year, I reported Jingles milestone in achieving 100 million mark in 411 calls. Skype is now collaborating with Jingle, which is an interesting proposition for both the companies.

Designed and developed by Google and Jabber Software Foundation in October 2005, Jingle Networks today dominates nearly three percent of the USA 411 market. It is providing toll-free 411 services for the customers enabling them to access any residential, business or government phone number without any cost.

With this latest agreement with Skype, Jingle will now provide the same service for Skype 3.5 users in USA. The Skype users can also add Free411USA to their Skype friends list.

We should not forget the fact that Skype users are regular online users. They can make online search to find out desired phone number from various sources rather than depending upon Jingle. Therefore, Skype-Jingle collaboration may have little impact on the users.

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Source: voipcentral.org

Google has launched Google Voice Local Search service, a kind of free telephone based information service that could replace toll 411 calls. The customers can access the service by dialing 1-800-GOOG-411.

The 411 market is in full swing in USA with yearly business of $7 billion handling over 2.5 billion calls. Therefore, Google wants to spearhead in this area. However, the search engine giant will face competition from the already established players like, Jingle which shares 3 percent of the market.

With Google Voice Local Search Service, you can find a business listing by category and send the listing details to a mobile phone via SMS. The Google 411 service is fully automated. So, you dont need to interact with the operators.

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In one of my previous posts VOIP IP Telephony: A week in VOIP and IP Telephony, I mentioned about LIBJINGLE and I was excited about it. Apparently, there were many others, according to googletalk blog itself. The search link it gives lists my site in page two!. That is fine. This will be a new era in IM P2P and VOIP, IP Telephony.
As much the excitement, there were some confusion as well about the LIBJINGLE library. So Mike Jazayeri, the Product Manager has taken the task up and explains the scenario’s and capabilities as far as GoogleTalk is concerned. I think it is a good read and here are the topics that Mike decided to talk about;
1. Voice calls between other PC IM/VOIP clients such as Gaim, Adium, Psi, etc. And Google Talk.
2. Voice calls between mobile devices and Google Talk!
3. Peer-to-peer applications.

I am sure there are more ways than the above to use this library. I am for one playing with my Jabber server and Asterisk server. I will let you know how it goes.

Source: voipcentral.org

The big news that we have been waiting for: Google has released their API for GoogleTalk. This is very exciting news in the VoIP industry for the implications are tremendous and applications are virtually limitless.

Google Talk uses a Jingle XMPP to establish peer-to-peer (p2p) connections as Jingle protocol is Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) based and as ICE is successful in bypassing Network Address Translation (NAT), Jingle is capable of doing the same and pass through many types of NATs. No wonder biggies like Microsoft, Cisco and Google are so interested in this and supporting it.

Libjingle is a set of components provided by Google to interoperate with Google Talk’s p2p and audio capabilities. Libijingle also has source code for Google’s implementation of Jingle Signalling (JEP-0166) and Jingle-Audio (JEP-0167) which are the proposed extensions to the XMPP standard and available in experimental/trail form.

So what the GoogleTalk API is capable of doing?

For this we are borrowing Tom Keatings idea in his blog that gave a very nice example of a possible application of the Google API. He mentions about a site that mashed Google maps with Best Buy Xbox 360 inventory and tagging the Best Buy stores with pins clicking on which you can find out how many Xbox 360s are for sale. With the Google API, a possible use could be that you could use it to make a call to the Best Buy store! Also, it will give a tremendous boost in building communities that VoIP has already started. Also, as Tom rightly mentioned, it will support even online gambling. The possibilities are virtually limitless. We can rest assured that there would be highly innovative uses of this as we move into the days ahead.

We would love to hear your ideas out on this and maybe riding on your ideas, we can post an interesting blog here on Jingle-based APIs.

And what does it mean for the industry?

Well, for starters, it will put tremendous pressure on Skype to open up its API. An interesting thought comes to my mind now, really. I cant help but think the ‘Skype paradox here’. Skype actually started as an initiative to traverse what I would term as closed network connections (including NAT and firewalls) through a p2p system. Now, it suddenly sees itself as such a closed network with its proprietary p2p telephony.
Now, in the face of being isolated it would have no other option but to open up its API more than it would ever have liked. *heh*

The same is applicable to similar companies using or contemplating using proprietary p2p for voice telephony.

Source: voipcentral.org

Today, the Jabber Software Foundation (JSF) published initial documentation of Jingle. Jingle is a set of extensions to the IETF’s Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol or XMPP for use in VoIP, video, and other p2p multimedia sessions.

The Jingle technology represents an open version of the protocols used in the popular Google Talk application released in August 2005.

Google is supporting the standardization and evolution of these protocols through the JSF’s community standards process.

The following are the specifications that were published today:

JEP-0166: Jingle Signalling The core technology for peer-to-peer session management, which enables communication through existing firewalls and can be extended to support a wide range of session types. (Authored by Scott Ludwig and Joe Beda of Google, Peter Saint-Andre of the JSF, and Joe Hildebrand of Jabber Inc.)

JEP-0167: Jingle Audio The session description format for Jingle audio sessions, enabling seamless one-to-one voice over IP (VoIP) between Jabber/XMPP users. (Authored by Scott Ludwig of Google and Peter Saint-Andre of the JSF.)

Follow-on specifications will be published in the near future for additional session types (e.g., video) as well as to document interoperability with the IETF’s Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the ITU’s H.323 technology, and the IAX protocol used natively in the popular Asterisk open-source PBX application.

Peter Saint-Andre, Executive Director of the Jabber Software Foundation and co-author of the Jingle specifications said;

Jingle provides a powerful framework for peer-to-peer multimedia sessions.

Joe Hildebrand, CTO of Jabber Inc. and co-author of the Jingle signaling specification, added:

By laying the groundwork for real-time collaboration, Jingle is an important piece of the puzzle for our enterprise and service provider customers, and we are committed to supporting it in our products as soon as possible.

Apart from Jabber Inc. and Google, the companies and other open-source projects that have already pledged to support the Jingle protocols are

Antepo,
Cerulean Studios (Trillian),
Coversant,
Digium (Asterisk),
Gaim,
Jive Software,
Novamens,
Psi,
SAPO and
Tipic

In its press release Jabber said that support from additional vendors is expected in the near future.

Jabber Software Foundation