Web Based Phone Services

New web based phone services are already changing the way we
communicate with phones. And they keep evolving. Some new innovate companies include:

• Ccube
• Ribbit
• Google

Ccube

Ccube is a social networking site that enables contact, instantly by private phone calls.
It can be used for social networking, in entertainment, or to facilitate customer contact.
Friends and relatives can also use it for free calling within the United states. The basic
service is free.

Social Networking -- Travis Watson, a country singer, has a "Call me On Ccube button"
He boldly invites other MySpace user to call him for "bookings, intelligent conversation,
pranks or drunk calls." He can do that because his real phone number is hidden
and he can easily specify the times when his Ccube call forwarding is active. He can
also easily turn it off entirely if he wants, while keeping his real phone number private.

Entertainment. Drae, whose id on Ccube is "MrSexy31" works in the entertainment business
as a TV host and apparently has a record label. He uses Ccube to invite potential
business associates to call him.

Enabling Phone Contact on Websites. Vator.tv a website for innovators to showcase
their ideas, collaborate and exchange knowledge to get their ideas to the next level.
At www.Vator.tv they have a "Call Me on Ccube" button to invite patrons to make
contract with them by phone.

On mine own website -- http://www.pguild.com , I have a "Call Me on Ccube"
button to invite people interested in knowing about our Northern California
singles parties and mixers to call me.

Learn more about Ccube, click here.

Ribbit

Ribbit Graphic see http://www.ribit.com

Ribbit calls itself “Silicon Valley’s first phone company. Ribbit plans to be the platform company for Voice 2.0 applications. Using Flash applications built with the Ribbit platform you will be able to make calls directly your browser. The applications will connect with other applications and data on the web to enable all kinds of exotic features. This will be possible because thousands of developers will work together in an open source environment to help each other. They will be able to plug into the system and create web applications even though they know nothing about the low level details of telephony. To learn more about Ribbit, click here to visit their website.

Google

Google is launching a New Mobile Phone Platform, not a phone of their own like a G-phone or a Google Phone, but a platform that geeks and clever programmers can use to create add-ons. It's a new Google Open Source Platform called Android. Because the open source approach usually results in many interesting and often powerful applications, we can look forward to some new unusual features in phones that work with Android!

Thirty-four companies are jumping into the ring with both feet -- companies like Motorola, T-Mobile and Intel. Even Ebay. Could Google be thinking about cell phone shopping? Ribbit claims that their technology can encompass Android; that is those using Ribbit can make calls to apps created with the Android Platform. Time will tell.