ENUM and Facebook

I have come across some VoIP integration scenarios within the Facebook environment. But I don’t like any of those options yet. babyTel offers a PC-to-PC client that requires both users to have the same VoIP client running. This approach has not really worked in the past. The other option is to use Rebtel or Jaxtr type application where a user is allocated a local number in several countries. So if I have friends in 20 different countries, I will have 20 different phone numbers in those countries. A) That is a clumsy way of doing things; B) The phone number that is allocated to me in a specific country does not mean that the caller pays nothing to call me; and C) The web element is usually weeded out of the calling

A better way to do VoIP with Facebook would be to integrate an ENUM database with the Facebook API. So you let the Facebook members opt into this database and register their phone number in the ENUM registry, and then specify who within your group you allow to call you. The click-to-call facility will then appear in form of a url to the permitted caller. The advantage you have is that you do not have to list your phone number on the web but still be able to receive a web-to-phone call. And such a call will be free in several developed countries. The other advantage is that if the Facebook ENUM registry connects to something like Spider, then you open lots of new opportunities.