Comments on: Ribbit Pulls Back the Covers On Its Voice 2.0 Master Plan (And Raises $10 Million B Round)

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:41:52 +0000

I agree about the confusion. Though, your reference is one of the HeyCosmo.com apps available on Facebook. You can also play with some of their apps from the website.

By: BT Acquires Ribbit For $105 Million

BT Acquires Ribbit For $105 Million — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:54:18 +0000

[...] BT will keep the Ribbit team intact in Silicon Valley and use the acquisition to try to win mind share among developers. Ribbit is a platform for creating voice-based applications over the Internet. Below is an Elevator Pitch from founders Tedd Griggs and Crick Waters explaining what Ribbit does: [...]

By: BroadSoft Going Up Against Ribbit with VoIP Platform for Web Apps

BroadSoft Going Up Against Ribbit with VoIP Platform for Web Apps — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:34:24 +0000

[...] can be drawn most easily to Ribbit, which late last year debuted its own platform for integrating voice into web apps; the company even went so far as to call itself “Silicon [...]

By: Portfolio Review: Ribbit Corp. · Alsop Louie Partners

Portfolio Review: Ribbit Corp. · Alsop Louie Partners — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:45:01 +0000

[...] Valley’s first telephone company”. For the best coverage of the company’s proposition, read Techcrunch’s post, which goes pretty deep in understanding what’s [...]

By: francois

francois — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:33:14 +0000

Inexbee, french company, leader in multimedia convergence services, is about to launch similar services both directly to the consumer market http://www.mylivio.com and in a white label model for e-commerce and community website http://www.livio-oneclick.com .
Many majors e-commerce website have already expressed interests.
Moreover, the interesting point is that Inexbee has already developed a more complete technology, as its solution includes video from flash to mobile device !

By: The Year in Launches (2007 Edition)

The Year in Launches (2007 Edition) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:40:36 +0000

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By: Florent

Florent — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:01:17 +0000

Ribbit solution shows how the web will revolutionize the way we use communication solutions. Nevertheless, they are not the only one to provide a full web based flash phone and telecommunication environment.
Digitrad: http://www.digitrad.com is also providing this service and did a demo in October of this year in the Valley.
http://www.uber...businesses.html
Digitrad platform also provides an API and also a direct interconnect with Skype as they are Skype Voice Servive Partner like Voxeo, Tellme and Angel. Digitrad’s unique advantage is also to be a real SS7 and class 5 telecom operator providing all services from the phone numbers, click-to-call solutions, IVRs, PBX features and routing of the calls. This complete integration allows Digitrad platform to provide its services and access to its platform at the lowest cost.

By: Senaka Balasuriya

Senaka Balasuriya — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:15:38 +0000

This is exactly what I predicted Ribbit would do when I wrote about it in July (Ribbit was in stealth mode then)… “Ribbit appears to be a softswitch-based VoIP telephony service that is accessible from a browser via a Flash application. Flash works on both PC environments and on mobile devices, so it would be a good choice for a service that runs on both PCs and mobile devices and offers a great user experience.”

See more at http://techunta...is-ribbit-up-to

This is going to be pretty good…but an also ran…ala Jaxtr

By: CAR

CAR — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:47:59 +0000

Seems like a very cool concept, look really foward to it.

By: voiceBubble

voiceBubble — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:28:43 +0000

http://www.voicebubble.com

By: voiceBubble

voiceBubble — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:27:53 +0000

We have developed a Voice 2.0 application, Voice and Web integration with user generated content.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:46:10 +0000

The article says Silverlight supports access to the microphone as well. I don’t believe that is true (at least not yet). If I’m wrong about that, please correct me.

By: oi geli

oi geli — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:46:18 +0000

As already mentioned by others Asterisk developers were doing these for a while. What about Tellme, BeVocal, Voxeo, Nuance, etc VoiceXML platforms, they have been allowing developers for 10+ years bulding applications in their platform. Nuance closed their developer site few years back though. I guess the buzzwords “The Platform” and “Voice 2.0″ worked for them pretty good.

Does anybody know detail about this AJAX and Microphone issue, please post little more than just AJAX don’t have access to the microphone.

By: Mikel DeSanctis

Mikel DeSanctis — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:55:16 +0000

What a confusing message, but good to see such company launching! Check this out folks, it’s definitely not built using Ribbit, Asterisk or any of the stuff mentioned, but here’s an example of convergence of web 2.0 (social networking, telephony, IM) and etc. Have fun!!!

apps.facebook.com/telemoticon

By: AJAX??

AJAX?? — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:42:42 +0000

What in the world does AJAX have to do with microphones?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:30:39 +0000

When I first stumbled on this post I thought I had hit the wrong button and found a post from a couple of years ago.

All this company is doing is taking it one step further than Skypes API. The fact they use a Lucent switch makes them really no different than Sylantro or Broadsoft.

As mentioned in another post Asterisk can achieve all these things without much of a CapEx. If they are using anything other than Asterisks than OOPS!. Today, you can rent a server and sign up with an Asterisk related carrier and voila you can offer dial tone. The beauty here is that there’s NO LONGER a need to buy telephony boards which was once a huge barrier to entry. All the voice processing is done at the CPU level.

May be next time the VC’s will call me when they want some due diligence completed? Unfortunately, I feel Ribbit is going to have a tough time gaining traction in an already crowded marketplace.

By: James Gardiner

James Gardiner — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:22:44 +0000

Ok, for those who want a SNEEK PEEK at FlashPlayer 10 VoIP features. see the following youtube video from Adobe MAX conference.

Adobe MAX Barcelona – Pacifica Sneak Peek
http://www.yout...h?v=F_RLwwxQOUc

There are also other interesting flash improvements.
As we know h.264 is available NOW,
and also better 3D capabilities.

At some (other) conferences I have attended lately, many evangelists think that 3D type interfaces then give more depth to moving around an interface are a big thing of the future. (I’m sceptical) but it still makes for amazing funky interface capabilities.

Thanks,
James

By: Ballmer

Ballmer — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:14:38 +0000

Sounds tinny and mechanical!

fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Vijay

Vijay — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:14:01 +0000

Its the era of TEB2.0 (Telephony + Web)2.0
Checkout a new startup with unique services.
http://www.LimeAll.com

By: Adolf bin Streisand

Adolf bin Streisand — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:58:02 +0000

Well said James.

Can you point me to some of the info on Adobe’s push in to VOIP and it’s common APIS? Thanks.

AbS

By: James Gardiner

James Gardiner — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:42:48 +0000

Sorry TechCrunch, credit where credit is due.
Rabbit is nothing special. So why are you going on about it so much???

All it is using is Asterisk FREE VoIP type back end. (Old news, making huge weaves in Telco industry as it works really well for free software. Many BIG ITSP use it in very large enterprise areas).

Plus, Adobe is coming out with VoIP services built into FlashPlayer10 next year.
These are all open and common API’s. AND YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEM.

Rabbit just seems like it has run to the top of the mountain first and is trying to own it before.. well its truely open.

James

By: Adolf bin Streisand

Adolf bin Streisand — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:51:29 +0000

Thanks Erick.

And BTW, pls do your readers a service: remind them that telco is the most scale-iest of scale businesses.

The next time you see ANY telco-related app/service NewCo, ask 1) how they’ll generate 10s of millions of calls, and 2) how they’ll earn fractions of a cent on a per minute basis to build a real company.

No doubt it should be a LOT easier to build/deploy/host phone apps. Angel has been fighting this fight for about 6+ yrs; Prem [insert impossibly-hard Indian last name here] at Telera and now Transera has been trying to eliminate app complexity for a decade or more; Qwest has the QWCC, etc…

But at the end of the day one makes money on either a new or better app/svc people will pay for, directly or through recip comp rate arbitrage.

Again, not a single thing new here. But it should be said no one has pulled it off yet. So I’m rooting for Ribbit.

But pls kill the opening video. Like someone said above, it reeks of pre-bubble gobbley-gook speeck.

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:20:55 +0000

This is an interesting concept that will most certainly put any of the pay per call application providers that are still around out of business. Some that come to mind are ingenio, voicestar, estara, etc…. It’s also cool that it’s os and browser independent since it’s based on flash.

By: Jose

Jose — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:19:42 +0000

how will the make money? who pays for the phone call? The users? So this will be like skype but within a browser?

By: gregory

gregory — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:49:42 +0000

a side question, is there enough bandwidth for this? maybe becuase i am in small town india, and youtube is impossible, but it does seem like the ideas floating around assume that bandwidth is infinite, and i wonder