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Holy Crap! Linkify is Freakin’ Amazing!! December 30, 2007

Filed under: Metablogging — News Writer @ 10:10 pm

You have GOT to try this if you’re not hip to it already. Here’s what you do:

    1. Go to Xenomachina and drag the linkify thingy to your bookmarks toolbar.

    2. Then go to wherever it is that you type text for your blog and type “tacos”.

    3. Highlight “tacos”.

    4. Click on the Linkify thing that is now in your toolbar.

    5. Holy Tamale! Check out what happened!

    linkify.jpg

    6. Now look at what I can do. After I highlighted “tacos”, it turned it into a link.

    Here is the word tacos for illustrative purposes. It took one second to link that. Enjoy!

 

Convert Clickers Into Callers December 30, 2007

Filed under: Reviews — News Writer @ 10:01 pm

The Ifbyphone Phone-Me-Now service is something that makes perfect sense. You know how when people get on the computer, it’s sometimes difficult for them to get off? They just keep clicking and clicking until eventually they have went from researching lower car insurance rates to watching videos of people herding cats on YouTube.

One thing that companies can do to keep that from happening to their potential customers is use the Ifbyphone - free click to call and custom voice mashups service. What happens, is instead of the client seeing the company’s phone number and clicking away, is that the customer can “Click to Call”, resulting in both the company and customer’s phones ringing simultaneously, which, in turn, results in a real life, real-time connection. Sounds great for both parties!

Press Release:

Ifbyphone Releases revolutionary Phone-Me-Now: the world’s first Zero Configuration Click to Call
With 100 free minutes per month Phone-Me-Now

Promises to be biggest Killer App of 2008

Chicago, IL: December, 2007 - Ifbyphone, a voice infrastructure and applications development company providing enterprise class services to Small and Medium sized Businesses (SMB’s), has just released a solution destined to revolutionize the web to voice space: Phone-Me-Now, a zero configuration click to call application. To introduce Phone-Me-Now to hundreds of thousands of businesses that will be able to use it as a sales tool, Ifbyphone is making it available free of charge for 6 months and providing the first 100 minutes per month of usage for free as well.

This patent pending solution can be integrated in less then 60 seconds into any website, email or hyperlinked document and requires no experience to configure. It’s literally the Internet’s first instant voice mash up tool.

“While many companies provide click to call services we were troubled by how complex they are to use. Users had to cut and paste HTML or javascript, rendering these services outside of the technical reach of thousands of businesses. Once we designed this patent pending solution we configured our existing smart click to call services to work with the Phone-Me-Now interface.” says Irv Shapiro, Founder and CEO of Ifbyphone. The zero configuration Phone-Me-Now service is literally the Holy Grail of web to telephone integration and ease of use.

Using Phone-Me-Now is as simple as typing:

www.phone-me-now/your-business-number

into any web site, Word Document, Powerpoint Presentation, Spreadsheet, PDF or email. When a reader clicks on the link they are prompted for their telephone number and the Ifbyphone systems call your business, calls the reader and conferences the call. Phone-Me-Now works with any telephone number you register on your Ifbyphone account.

“We wanted to eliminate any barriers to basic click to call, and know that Phone-Me-Now will immediately set an industry standard for rapid deployment. If the Internet is all about speed and response, what could be a more appropriate Killer App for 2008 than Phone-Me-Now, which puts a business owner in instant voice communication with their customers,” adds Shapiro.

Free Phone-Me-Now accounts can be updated to additional Ifbyphone packages that include:

- Click to Call with Custom Dialog Forms
- Integrated Call Routing and Reporting
- Find Me
- Virtual Voice Mail
- Virtual Receptionist
- Outbound Voice Broadcast
- Web Configured Voice Dialogs (Hosted IVR)
- Call Recording
- Backend Database Integration
- A Complete Call Management API

All Ifbyphone solutions work with any telephone system and are fully portable if a company moves from one telephone transport vendor to another.

# # #

About Ifbyphone:

Ifbyphone is a hosted voice application and platform company with a simplified approach to the deployment of stand-alone and web-integrated voice services for small and medium sized businesses (SMB). Combining advanced telephony and web services, Ifbyphone’s web-integrated voice applications turn the small business telephone into a powerful tool, increasing lead generation, improving sales conversion and enhancing the customer experience. Ifbyphone makes it easier for customers to connect with you from online and off. All of Ifbyphone’s applications are accessible via a click on a Web site, an inbound call to a toll free number, an outbound call or with the help of a programmable API. Our configuration and deployment tools look and feel just like Web applications, and require no previous knowledge of telephony programming or terminology.

Previously available only to large enterprises, Ifbyphone is delivering these converged voice and web solutions at affordable monthly fees, with no major upfront costs. The company’s services are available online and through a network of SMB value-added resellers.

 

Heh. December 30, 2007

Filed under: Life — News Writer @ 9:46 pm


This kid got what was coming to him.
Nothing like natural consequences, right? I’m just wondering where the kid’s parents were and if they were around. If so, why they were letting him entertain himself by attempting to dump the kitty into the fountain?? Good thing he was in a public place…I could see this kid being the sort who gets into major trouble at home by doing things like flushing the keys down the potty and stuff like that.

 

Babies Love Slinglings December 30, 2007

Filed under: Reviews — News Writer @ 9:37 pm

When my youngest son was born, he was nicknamed, “The Klingon”. He refused to let me set him down, ever. Any attempt to do so would be met with indignant howls. He always wanted to be in mix and check things out with me, from the moment he was born. In retrospect, this was a good thing. Babies whose mothers carry them around with them are spoken to more often, and experience much more visual stimuli. Then, of course, there is just being close to mom. Babies like that, and if you think about it, it really makes sense. Most cultures carry babies with them, so really, it is the norm, and all The Klingon Baby was really doing was letting me know that in a loud manner.

A friend of mine from Africa made me a baby sling that I used, although it could difficult to tie at times. I did enjoy having it though, and more importantly, The Klingon Baby was happy and content. Today, if I were to buy a baby sling, I’d get one of the “Slinglings”. First of all, they look really cool. They also are more comfortable for the baby and even come in 10 different sizes. They’re also easy to put on. This is a great product for moms to have, and is certainly better for your baby’s development than putting him in a playpen.

Do the right thing for your little Klingon and try out one of the Slinglings!