Comments on: Dial Plus Fetches Information As You Talk

By: Ryan Scott

Ryan Scott — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:21:38 +0000

its a great idea if you can type other words/names in while you are on the phone (yeah headset required) so that you can look things up while on the convo. many many times i’ve wanted to look someone up after seeing their nametag before talking to them, or someone calls and mentions a name and i’m not yet familiar with it – i want to get familiar with it instantly with wiki lookup (not facebook that’s damn near useless), website lookup, linkedin profile…

then in the future (near future) they should hook it to phonecam with face recognition lookups. then in the slightly farther future – we become Terminators.

By: hawkmoon269

hawkmoon269 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:48:19 +0000

This sounds like a really good idea. With the ubiquity of Bluetooth and headsets, it seems like a relatively simple transition to accepting the cellphone as a platform for simultaneous voice and data. Also, as a compulsive FaceBook checker, this product is right in my sweet spot. I think there is a real practical value in getting the business data, and the more social networking sites they support, the more of a crucial youth market they will be able to pull in. I’ll be very interested to see how DialPlus moves forward.

By: goodhooch

goodhooch — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:31:22 +0000

@David:

It seems the biggest distinction between DialPlus and the Pudding is that Pudding requires a user to launch the browser, go to their website, and enter the phone number to make the call. DialPlus doesn’t change any behavior. When a call is made or is incoming, it brings up Smart Results for the user.

Also, isn’t the pudding slightly over the top big-brother given the fact that it actually listens to your conversation?

Plus it misses all incoming calls.

DialPlus is free. DialPlus will be able to serve ads in the Smart Results on every call that a phone makes or receives. These ads can be contextual based on demographic and psychographic profiles for each user. It seems to me a much easier and useful experience than what I’ve seen from pudding.

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By: jamboree

jamboree — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:40:53 +0000

This sorta reminds me of the ADSI enhanced phone services that was available to certain ISDN capable phones in the 1990’s.

By: Jason Kincaid

Jason Kincaid — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:33:52 +0000

@David

The service is free for now. It will be supported by contextual ads.

By: David Kahn

David Kahn — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:24:09 +0000

It’s like thePudding except it’s an application on a phone and it doesn’t search profiles, right? Also it’sprobably not free.