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Social Networks to Add Voice Applications
Tim Panton to Discuss Verbal Communication for Web Users and Online Communities at eComm2008
(Mountain View, CA — March 10, 2008) Tim Panton, Founder and CEO of PhoneFromHere.com, will present “Have You Got Something to Say? – Providing Social Networks with a Voice” at eComm on Wednesday, March 12th at 2:40 PST in the Grand Hall of the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA.
“This is an exciting time for the verbal communications industry, as pioneering technologies are set to enhance and evolve current Web functionality. Our service, PhoneFromHere.com, integrates live person-to-person or person-to-group speech into the context of an existing website, enabling the Webpage to become the handset.” Tim Panton said. “Verbal, Web-based communications done properly will provide companies unprecedented opportunities to connect directly with their customers and create honest and open communities, of the kind which we have yet to see on the Internet.”
Tim Panton created PhoneFromHere.com, which delivers verbal communication to Web users and online communities in 10 seconds or less – with no requirement for the end user to surrender personal information, use a phone or download any software. PhoneFromHere.com provides end-user analysis and custom integration into an existing Website, giving users the opportunity to leverage live person-to-person or person–to-group speech within the context of an existing Website.
A software developer for 25 years and expert with deep technical insight on the protocols and applications that power the Web, including: VoIP, Java, Asterisk and Open source, Tim Panton was the technical architect behind several successful Internet startup companies.
AboutPhoneFromHere.com PhoneFromHere.com delivers instant, verbal communication to Web users and communities with no requirement for the end user to surrender personal information, use a phone or download software. The service includes end-user analysis and custom integration into an existing Website. PhoneFromHere.com gives Web users the opportunity to leverage person-to-person speech within the context of a Website – increasing Website traffic and stickiness by delivering worry-free, live voice chat opportunities. PhoneFromHere.com is browser agnostic. For more information, visit www.PhoneFromHere.com.
About eComm 2008
eComm 2008 — the inaugural Emerging Communications Conference — was born from the ashes of O’Reilly’s ETel Conference to track and help drive the major disruption beginning to transform the multi-trillion dollar telecommunications industry. From industry visionaries to bleeding-edge technologies, cutting-edge academic projects to incumbent telecom players and garage-based hackers, eComm is designed as the only telecommunication forum to embrace and promote radical change.
eComm is poised to make history on March 12-14, 2008 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. For more information and conference registration, please visit www.ecommmedia.com.
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