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Entries from iLocus tagged with 'Creative weekends'
Asterisk module enabling wholesale hosted PBX services
I think you could make a business out of developing a module on top of Asterisk that enables wholesale hosted PBX services. Asterisk is not only being used for retail hosted PBX but also wholesale hosted PBX as well. I...
Managing multiple TV service providers on the same TV set
The idea of a wiki pluggin for MT turned out to be a self-inspiration. I have not blogged any creative ideas for long. But like the IP traffic, they travel in bursts. Incidentally we had a 2 hour break –...
Speech-to-Text engine for ad supported telephony
Ad supported telephony as a concept is not proven yet. But it is the new rage nonetheless. I think it is possible to build sustainable business model just because there are lots of talented people out there working hard to...
Convert air miles to free mobile VoIP minutes
Faisal, our chip man, suggested mobile VoIP as an alternative to expensive in-flight calls. But we struggled to conclude who the right service provider candidate would be. Faisal also argues that in-flight mobile VoIP does not make sense unless you...
Intelligent phone book
Since we increasingly use dial-by-name rather than dial-by-number, the use of phone book (contacts) on your handset is perhaps the most utilized application. And there is plenty of room to enhance it. The phone book could be engineered to be...
Utility generating TV usage stats
Electronic Programming Guides on TV are still living in the 20th century. They are not user friendly at all. Most of them look like interfaces for writing assembly level programming code. I think EPGs should be intelligent enough to suggest...
10 ways to keep the VoIP dialtone going
There were nearly 10 million VoIP subscriber licenses sold by Voice-over-Broadband server vendors in 4Q07. There are many countries in the world that would require less than that to serve the entire population. While the broadband telephony marches on there...
Solar powered VoIP modems
My motivation for suggesting this is not the Clean Tech thing. You lose VoIP service when there is a power outage. If there is a backup supply of power by way of some solar power panel, you would be able...
Improving quality of video interviews over Internet
We have a genuine problem with our video interviews feature. We cannot travel too much to get hold of people live in person. So there are two broad options to carry our video interviews remotely (given the bandwidth constraints on...
User generated content meets telephony
Transcribed voicemails can be the easiest form of telephony-related user generated content (UGC) if you share such content with your connections. You could specify which group can have access to the transcribed voicemail contents. But moving a step further, why...
When car stereo opens its APIs
The car stereos that come with USB ports can take in the wireless Internet USB sticks. In theory you should be able to add a chip inside the stereo that links to online services like iTunes to download music while...
Hosted test bed for applications involving downloads
If we are to believe in the upcoming applications renaissance, then we have not seen anything yet. New Web 2.0 / Voice 2.0 applications will keep coming every day. And while I have tested over a hundred so far, I...
Ability to monetize local and user-generated video content on IPTV
I think this would be another way to encourage local content. If you help monetize the local video content, you might have a few potential producers out there. Among various forms, local video content could take form of video interviews...
A better Jajah
There are two guys here at iLocus that use Jajah for international calls. I have been told that the call set up time is very quick. However we don’t have DIDs so once Jajah sets up the calls for them,...
Mobile VoIP aggregator
I am not yet clear if stress leads to a creative outlet or creative exhaustion. For me the months of Jan and Feb are always stressful in terms of workload. And I have noticed that I am not able to...
Ribbit thing but a licensed platform approach
I very much fancy the Ribbit idea. Their focus on bringing together Voice 2.0 developers and effectively offering an aggregated new telephony platform sounds exciting. The Flash APIs for developers jazz up the offering a bit more. Ribbit however goes...
Integrated translation triggers
We need a web server utility that recognizes the origin of the visitor (like in ad servers) or scans the browser language of the visitor and then automatically displays the content in relevant language. That would be more productive than...
Voice 2.0 strategy for telecom vendors
I have seen many hypotheses surrounding Cisco’s possible use of Tribe.net and Five Across assets. Some see Cisco enabling internal social networks for its corporate customers. Some see Cisco enabling its corporate customers to implement sites that gather customer feedback...
TV remote control on your mobile phone
It has become an accepted norm to have multiple remote controllers in your room. One for you TV, one for DVD player, one for set-top box (not all TV functionalities are available on set-top box controller), one for your music...
Dialpad 2.0
Dialpad (acquired by Yahoo some time back) did two things that attracted millions to its service. It offered a light Java based client which you did not need to download. It was embedded on their website for you to make...
POP-mail-reader equivalent in VoIP
Those among us who use softphones, many have multiple accounts. It is actually quite common because most of us are still experimenting with PC-to-Phone type services. I might have a Skype account but I also use Gizmo, and Google Talk....
Car mechanic utility on cellphone
In my experience nearly half the mechanical faults developed by our vehicles are easy to fix. We should be getting some basic car fixing engineering training from the authorities: A certificate course that comes bundled with the driving license. Until...
Faxes on social networking sites
I haven’t seen eFax type services on social networking sites. It would be nice to receive faxes on your personal pages. It sounds like a genuine necessity. Although that pushes social networking towards communications more, but that is going to...
Necessity is still the mother of most innovation
Ever wondered why similar startups surface roughly at the same time? There is a generally-held view that since these startups talk to similar VCs and since VC community is a tightly knit community, the idea spreads around. Since I don’t...
IPTV advertising clearinghouse
Just projecting forward the discussion in Faisal’s post yesterday …. “ …. Targeted advertising will do wonders if you have local businesses and corner shops being able to advertise on local household TVs. However the telcos and channels do not...
Engaging and networking local communities online
Geography might be history, thanks to the Internet. But I am still interested in the local content and news. By local I mean just the 1km radius area. I had a look at this application called Your Neighbours on Facebook....
Dial by username
My father has self-scribbled at least a dozen telephone diaries over the last few years, entering and updating numbers. When he travels he carries with him the necessary diaries. I have not been successful in persuading him to use electronic...
Snapvine for Movable Type
Interaction is important to any content site. Although comments system is an old Internet application, it is still the main way to interact. I however fail to motivate myself to leave a comment on a blog entry as much as...
CD reading mobiles
Floppies have almost vanished now and flash drives have become bread and butter. However CDs and DVDs are ubiquitous and cheaper than flash drives. Most of our back up data or music or games and software is on CDs. The...
Snailmail Autoresponder Gmbh
One thing that will not be integrated into a unified messaging box is the snailmail. As much as I would like my post to appear in my inbox, this is not going to happen ........... unless you read iLocus blogs!!!!...
Online exchange for Internet video dubbing
Video on the Net is progressing leaps and bounds. Most of it is personal videos. Business videos are not so hip yet. They are confined to Q&A for a while. I think we are unlikely to see business related video...
Pay them to make a call
The problem with ad supported calls (Jajah, Talkster, and others) is the lack of advertising focus. The advertiser does not have the luxury of choosing a particular demographic profile to target. I interacted with VoodooVox CEO J. Scott Hamilton recently...
Hosted browser concept can solve search engine privacy issues
Search engine privacy issues usually surround consumer protection from online ads. I think there are other equally important issues. To start with, as a business user of Internet I don’t want anyone (least my competitors) to know what I have...
Karaoke blog aggregator website
Voice blogging continues to evolve. Still very early days. I am bullish but I think certain things need to be done in order to get this phenomenon going. First of all, we need a completely different voice blog publishing platform...
New incentive oriented bookmarking
I have ‘Digged’ a few articles but I do not find the process of ‘Digging’ scalable. I am not going to put in my password/username and do other related routine stuff every time I find something interesting on the web....
Janet and Orkut
Here is my contribution to the field of education: A website that lets students and teachers (belonging to academic institutions ranging from primary schools to universities) upload their assignment work and theses etc. I guess this would mostly be text...
My entry two days back
I posted this entry on ENUM for Facebook type sites. So that is one creative idea for the weekend. I will post another one later today....
What else would you load onto that all encompassing residential gateway?
I would like to have pbx features loaded onto it for intercom. If that could come pre-loaded with some service provider API that would be preferable. When companies like Google host your telephony service under an ASP model in the...
Anthropology and video communication
Video communication has been around for decades now. But certain anthropological issues have kept it at bay. Men prefer not to see the other bloke, and women do not want to be seen. Something pre-arranged has a chance here. Even...
Web based outing organizer
A web based application that lets one of the buddies within a certain friend circle propose an outing, and then ‘ping’ the other buddies in the group with the proposal. The ping could take form of email(s) or trigger web-to-phone...
White labeling Mobile Callback
I am surprised to find out that there are no vendors out there offering an off-the-shelf package for mobile callback. Previously confined to clumsy calling cards, the arbitrage is knocking hard at the doors of mobile telephony. And the form...
A search engine for hummingbirds
Some six years back I heard John Chambers of Cisco on CNBC telling a reporter how Internet would change our lives. The first example he gave was how one would be able to listen to his song of choice on...
How to improve audio citizen journalism
There must be several YouTube equivalents of audio. But they require you to be Internet users. How about those overwhelmingly huge non-Net users who want their views, and content in general, to get across? There is a simple way to...
Stretching the voicemail a bit more
Voicemail as an application has been mostly passive. I would like to see it becoming an intelligent agent analyzing a customer’s usage patterns, for instance. For instance, when I call someone and he does not answer, I get anxious as...
A Google for household items
If your memory serves you well, you remember where you left your nail cutter last time you used it. If are not a homely person like me, and you frantically look for things when you need them, and you nearly...
Converged billing from your bank
We have been looking for ONE BILL for over two decades now, but we still put up with multiple bills. If there really has to be just one bill, why limit it to just telecom services? While we are at...
Mobile Mobile
You can throw away your bluetooth dongles and data cables connecting mobile with PCs, because I just had a neat idea. We should develop a 'Mobile Phone Anywhere' kind of application that will give access to your mobile phone (and...
Bookmarking service for IP TV
I have great respect for TV. It is a source of entertainment as well as education. But I have not had much time for it lately. I would rather be out and about. However I do miss it. One thing...
The wlogger application
... Continued from my blog 'Talk in not really cheap'.....How do you get the thoughts of those people published on the net who talk better than write. Due to some heavy socialising over the weekend, I am unable to put...
A billing utility to separate business and personal calls
I use one cell account for both business and personal purposes. The bill is almost always paid by myself. I cannot bother to scan through the call list and bill the business calls to iLocus. I guess in Europe you...
Realtime language interpreter
I have often felt handicapped while researching companies or countries which do not speak English. If only we could do an instant translation of, say, English to Spanish (and vice versa) on a voice client! It sounds doable in principle:...
Password manager
I must have signed up with over 50 different web sites - for various different services including VoIP - over the last few years. I suppose I am active on 15 of those sites. For the remaining few which I...
Creative weekends
I have to admit weekends are such a welcome break. But it is just that towards the afternoon my hands start to itch and they involuntarily reach for the keyboard. I am not a great web surfer, so I don't...
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