I wanted to link back to some Phone Mashups examples we’ve featured on the blog. One is fun, one is practical, and one is actually being used by a few customers.
FUN: Yelp.com Phone Mashup - Get reviews over the phone.
PRACTICAL: Phone-2-Directions Phone Mashup - Enter two phone numbers, and get driving directions between the locations.
BUSINESS APPLICATION: Clock In / […]

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Here are 10 of our favorite Free SMS or Toll-Free services that help you access information from your phone. Have an idea for a new one? We’ll show you how to use Ifbyphone’s phone mashup technology to create your own toll-free information service. Create it for yourself, your friends, or your business.
10. TellMe - Call 800-555-Tell […]

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Simplicity.  That’s one of the key tenets at Ifbyphone.  We enable our customers to use phones to get more value out of their business without a lot of fuss.  That’s one reason we keep rolling out new applications (Conference Calling, Store Locator, Virtual Call Center and more on the way).  Customers can have these applications […]

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If you thought you could only track online data in Google Analytics, think again. Ifbyphone is excited about this week’s release of our new phone mashup enabling customers to track offline phone call data directly in Google Analytics, alongside website data.

This can be set up in 2 easy steps. First, you enter your Google Analytics […]

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I wanted to share a quick story of one of our customers.  They write software that (among other things) manages shifts for busy and complicated work environments.  In the past, when people couldn’t make it into work for any reason, someone had to guess who might be available, look up their contact information, make a […]

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The mobile Web really is different and advertisers are taking note.  Mobinttechno’s recent post, Mobile Advertising Channels and Mobile Sites offers one-stop shopping for what you need to know to ramp up mobile Web advertising campaigns. The post covers design tips and strategies, tools and links, a comprehensive list of “click-to” response actions for mobile Web […]

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In a new post, mobile advertising guru Andrew Grill highlights U.K.-based Yell.com’s new mobile map-based “yellow pages” services.  The free-to-use (ad supported) service takes advantage of both browser and phone capabilities to offer a true Web 2.0/Voice 2.0 experience — for example, every number is click-to-call, and you can add contact info automatically to address books and send it to […]

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Venture Beat reports that American Express customers can now take Reardon Commerce’s personal concierge with them when they leave home. It illustrates the converging of several trends: context-centric application mash-ups, multiple ways of interacting — voice, SMS, email, Web. This could be taken to the next level with a smart interactive voice application at the end […]

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With virtualization - and its fellow travelers: on-demand functionality and free form mashups — as the belles of the tech ball these days, it’s surprising how little buzz there is about these subjects in the telephony space. There the prevailing model remains a fixed suite of functionality from a single vendor. 
So I was initially excited […]

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