Category Archives: Fonolo

Fonolo Launches Call Recording Feature

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We’ve been hard at work here at fonolo, and we’re happy to announce the availability of several new features, including the ability to add custom bookmarks, an improved company search bar, and probably the most exciting, the ability to record your calls, and then play them back through the web interface.

 

Bookmarks:fonolo_bookmarks
The bookmarks feature lets you personalize a list of companies, and points in a companies’ phone tree, that you call frequently. Entries in your bookmarks list can then be deep-dialed with a single click.

 

Improved Search:
We’ve added a much improved search bar at the top of every page inside the interface. The new search will provide an auto-complete drop-down as you type, with searches that can be based on partial/full company names, partial/full phone numbers, as well as keywords found within the companies phone tree.

 

Call Recording:

One of the most exciting new features, is the ability to record your phone calls directly through the fonolo web portal. While you’re on a call initiated through the fonolo portal, simply hit the “Start Recording” button, and fonolo will start recording your phone call for you.

fonolo_recording

After you’ve completed your call, the recording will appear in your history (available from the home page, or from the company page); you can then playback the recording online, or download and play it back locally through your favorite mp3 player (like winamp or windows media player).

This is a beta release of call recording; enhanced features will be included in our next major release.

Visit the fonolo website to sign up today, and come see Shai Berger in person at the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference.

memcached (and facebook)

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I’m really impressed that so many big companies, like facebook and google, have taken the time to release patches and source code, back out to the open-source community. Being able to improve memcached throughput from 50,000 requests/s to 200,000 requests/s is an amazing achievement.

Facebook

The changes that the facebook guys have made to memcache are going to help a lot of people out there, including fonolo. We’re using memcache heavily in-house, not only for web-based caching, but for a lot of the back-end VoIP and speech recognition applications.

We, obviously, don’t require the throughput that facebook does- given they just recently released data that showed they were adding more than 600,000 new users per day, more than 70% of which are coming from outside the USA. That’s growth at a staggering rate!

I have to say, that I’m a fan of facebook, and what they’ve managed to achieve, in a relatively short amount of time- I just have to wonder how long it will all last? Increasing your user-base by 600,000 users per-day; where is the plateau? Will it all eventually just topple over on itself?

Imagine when the next big social networking app comes out; will there be a mass-exodus from one to the other? or will facebook be so far in-grained in it’s users, that they won’t have any other choice but to stay?

No matter what happens,  it’s nice to know facebook is working out all the bugs for us.

Net::fonolo 1.3 Released

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I justed released the latest and greatest version of Net::fonolo, a PERL module for accessing the fonolo.com developer program.

This release was pretty basic; just added support for the new API method company_list(), which returns a list of all the companies in the fonolo database, either by page, or by a date (so you can do incremental updates of a local cache).

If you’re interested in signing up for the fonolo developer program, click here.

The Net::fonolo module is available on CPAN , or here:

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