Is it just a coincidence, me & a friend , Tarun Jain are very much working on similar lines, to start Dial Direction kind of services, Ours is called Fone a Friend.

We are fine tuning the plan as of now & would be looking for VC’s when its done, actually Tarun posted the link for Dial Directions via email,
How would it be that we joined hands & start the service in India,
You can also Outsource Dial Directions In India, which would be cheaper then having the operation base in America,

Sabir

@Sin Jin - Thanks! Hope you don’t mind me throwing some stats around. According to Jupiter Research, currently only about 5 percent of the 220 million cell phone subscribers in the U.S. own smart phones or voice-enabled PDAs. Even if that percentage doubles, there’s still a lot of us with plain ‘ol phones. Dial Directions is consumer-friendly for the other 90% of everyday users: no downloads required, no monthly Internet plan, no typing in text, no limitations on hardware phone model, and plus we support all carriers. Similar to my chat with @Steve, even if phones have GPS features, you still need an easy, no-nonsense way to select your destination — definitely pointing to usefulness of multi-modal approach, yes?

@Sai - Hi, I think the service you note is an example of free Directory Assistance (DA). Dial Directions is not DA — and we deliver something no (free) DA can do today: point-to-point directions to an address or intersection, nearest business chain and now posted local events. More is coming…

Cool service. How are you going to differentiate this when navigation systems become cheaper and more standard in new cars? Maybe you’ll cash out before this happens, but I was just curious to see what you thought.

Aww, no prob. I was just having some fun. I tried your service with some local directions and found it to be pretty darn nifty.

Hell, I should feel lucky simply because you included Sacramento in your beta test. It’s not often that “Sacramento” and “beta” find themselves in the same sentence together.

He must have typed the entry too fast to get the title of the blog wrong.

TechCrunch 40 was originally only published as a San Francisco Bay Area event (which is why it wouldn’t recognize “Sacramento”). However, that’s probably shortsighted as TechCrunch 40 might be drawing attendees from Sacto and further. So we’ll add the event to the other California regions, too. In the meantime, just ask for it from one of the 200+ cities in the Bay Area (e.g. San Francisco, San Jose, Palo Alto, Burlingame, Santa Rosa, Fremont, Oakland, Berkeley, etc). Hope that helps a bit.

Cheers,

Tuyen
tuyen@dialdirections.com
http://www.dialdirections.com

“Sacramento, California.”

“What event are you looking for?”

“TechCrunch 40.”

“Say that again?”

“TechCrunch 40.”

“Say that again?”

“TechCrunch40.”

“Say that again?”

“@$@#*& ##!@##@#!!!!!”

“Say that again?”

Is that a deliberate typo?