Twitter users can now VoIP directly to their contacts via broadband using a new service called Phweet. Chronic bloggers Andy Abramson and Jeff Pulver tossed up posts for the new service within 24 hours.
Pulver, a big lover of social media these days, embraces Phweet as a natural extension of Twitter.
Abramson pulled a bigger rabbit out of his hat, setting up an in-flight call with a journalist onboard an American Airlines Aircell demo flight. Andy says Phweet is written in Adobe Flash, so unless Aircell wants to filter all Flash traffic - a very ugly prospect given how embedded the software is around the web - Phweet and other Flash voice services will be an open hole to conduct in-flight voice calls.
For more:
- Jeff Pulver's little Phweet [1] call
- Andy Abramson establishes an in-flight VoIP call [2] with Phweet.
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McCain and Obama Twitter Up [3]
Howe: A Telco 2.0 Technology Primer [4]
Links:
[1] http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/008497.html
[2] http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2008/08/who-says-you-ca.html
[3] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/mccain-and-obama-twitter/2008-06-22
[4] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/howe-telco-2-0-technology-primer/2008-07-07