[asterisk-biz] Ribbit.com ?

Rehan Allah Wala rehan at supertec.com
Mon Dec 17 08:57:57 CST 2007 

I think that is what ribbit.com guys are trying to achive.

They are giving u a 

1. Hosted Asterisk
2. Hosted Termination Provider.

and access to both via api's that u can use within ur web 2.0 applications.

I think that the idea is GREAT, and will allow many people to do many many things, but YES, 
by now products should have come like this for asterisk already.


Subject:        	Re: [asterisk-biz] Ribbit.com ?
From:           	Matthew Rubenstein <email at mattruby.com>
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> 	Why is it taking so long for OSS SIP or IAX clients embeddable in web
> pages? There's one or two products out there, while desktop clients are
> fairly plentiful. If "Web VoIP" clients were as plentiful as, say, MP3
> players, then the "Voice Web" would be growing probably as fast as the
> Web itself once did.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 07:10 -0700, Rehan Allah Wala wrote:
> > Any one tried this yet ?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Ribbit Pulls Back the Covers On Its Voice 2.0 Master Plan (And Raises
> > $10 Million B Round)
> > Erick Schonfeld
> > 12 comments »
> > 
> > 
> > ribbit-small.pngIn case it isn´t abundantly clear by now, voice is
> > just another application-bits that can be co-mingled with other data
> > in unexpected ways. Ribbit, a startup that officially launches today
> > and calls itself "Silicon Valley´s first phone company," takes that
> > concept as its basic premise. It wants to be the platform company for
> > Voice 2.0 applications. If its plans succeed, there will be thousands
> > of new phone apps appearing soon, and they almost all will be Flash
> > apps. In other words, these won´t be stand-alone pieces of software
> > like Skype. They will let people make calls right from the browser and
> > tie deeply into other apps and data on the Web.
> > 
> > 
> > "If you were to invent a phone company today," asks CEO Ted Griggs,
> > "what would it look like?" It wouldn´t be just cheap calls over the
> > Web or a one-trick startup built around a single feature like
> > click-to-call buttons. No, says Griggs, who founded Junction, a VoIP
> > software company he merged with Summa Four and sold to Cisco in the
> > late 1990s. It would be a complete end-to-end environment where
> > developers who know nothing about telephony could plug into and
> > quickly create Web-based phone applications. Ribbit recently closed a
> > $10 million B round led by Allegis Capital, with KPG Ventures
> > participating. The company also raised $3 million (the amount was
> > previously undisclosed) from Alsop Louie Partners in October, 2006.
> > 
> > 
> > ribbit-chalk-phone.pngToday´s launch is a developer launch, not a
> > consumer launch (that will come later in the first quarter of 2008).
> > It is releasing a more robust version of its APIs for its private
> > developer beta, which is open to any programmer. Already, about 600
> > developers have built Ribbit apps under certain restrictions (they are
> > not allowed to go live on the Web until early next year). These apps
> > range from an Adobe AIR iPhone that can make calls from your computer
> > to a Flash phone with a chalkboard interface to a browser-based phone
> > that works inside Salesforce.com (see screen shot below).
> > 
> > 
> > All of these phones can call other Web-based phones (including Skype),
> > VoIP phones, or regular landline and mobile phones. Ribbit handles the
> > calls and other voice-related services (call logs, voice messages,
> > speech-to-text transcription,contact imports, directories,
> > provisioning, billing, security, authentication) and provides the APIs
> > to developers, who build their apps with Adobe´s Flex development
> > tools. (Ribbit does not support Ajax apps because Ajax does not let
> > you access the computer´s microphone, says Griggs, but he might
> > consider extending support to Silverlight, which does). Ribbit will
> > create its own consumer and enterprise phone apps, but it will also
> > host a marketplace where consumers and businesses can find (and buy)
> > Ribbit apps.
> > 
> > 
> > For the most part, Ribbit plans on charging for its calls. "There is a
> > company a week that tries to avoid paying for the call. We are not
> > doing that," says Crick Waters, senior vice president of strategy. It
> > is free to play with the API´s and develop a Ribbit phone application,
> > but once it goes into production and actual calls begin, Ribbit will
> > start charging. Pricing will start at $30 a month for 20 simultaneous
> > sessions, or seats (for, say, call center reps logged into the
> > application making and receiving calls), plus per-minute fees to the
> > regular phone network. (Internet calls are free). The developer can
> > then choose to charge its customers or provide it for free, and make
> > up the cost in other ways. There probably will be free consumer apps
> > from both Ribbit and its developers, but the business opportunity here
> > is for enterprise voice applications that can be charged for. Instead
> > of developing a custom call-center application for $250,000, for
> > instance, an entrepreneur could build the same thing for much less on
> > Ribbit and charge, say, $5 a month per customer service rep (with
> > Ribbit taking $1.50).
> > 
> > 
> > ribbit-diagram-2.png
> > 
> > 
> > At its core, Ribbit has built a telephone switch in software, known as
> > a soft switch. It works just like a switch made by Lucent or Nortel.
> > Except that it is software running on hosted Linux servers. Ribbit´s
> > "class 5´´ switch has been tested in Lucent´s labs and passed with
> > flying colors-meaning it is as reliable as any telco switch, Griggs
> > assures me. Ribbit´s soft switch can send calls to regular phones,
> > mobiles, Voice-over-IP, Voice-over-IM, and Web pages. It supports many
> > voice protocols (SIP, Skype, Google Talk´s XMPP). Through its APIs,
> > Ribbit will give developers access to all the functionality of its
> > phone switch. "In the old days," says Griggs, "it was a hardware box
> > Lucent built talking to a hardware box that Nortel built. Today, there
> > are a lot of clients people are using." Want to create a unified
> > messaging service that follows you wherever you are, even ringing on
> > your IM or in your browser? No problem.
> > 
> > 
> > Sending phone calls over the Web is not what makes Ribbit interesting,
> > though. What makes it interesting is that it offers a way to create
> > voice apps in a familiar Web application development environment that
> > can easily be linked to other Web apps. Voice is just a feature of the
> > Web, and Ribbit recognizes that. The Ribbit phone created as a demo
> > for Salesforce.com, for instance, will not only let sales people make
> > calls to prospects directly from the browser-based CRM application. It
> > will also log the call. And in the next release, it will be able to
> > record portions of a call at a click of the button and transcribe it
> > (Ribbit uses speech-to-text technology from SimulScribe). Other
> > developers have used the same transcription functionality to create
> > phone apps that let people leave voice messages on blogs or on
> > people´s Facebook FunWalls that then get turned into text comments. In
> > the future you might call a friend and hear, "Press 1 to leave a
> > private message, Press 2 to leave a message on my FunWall." Ribbit has
> > big ambitions. If it can deliver on half of them, it just might become
> > Silicon Valley´s first phone company.
> > 
> > 
> > Here is a screen shot of the Salesforce app (click to enlarge):
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Rehan Ahmed AllahWala
> > Msn/Yahoo/GoogleTalk/Email: Rehan at Rehan.com
> > 
> > 
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Rehan Ahmed AllahWala
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