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March 24th, 2008 by Kyle OutlawTags: amphibian, iphone, microsoft, ribbit, tellme, voicemail
There has been a lot of discussion recently about how web design is influencing mobile. You don’t hear as much about how phone interface design, and more specifically the iPhone, is beginning to influence user experience on the web.
Ribbit - “Silicon Valley’s first phone company” - is creating some pioneering interfaces for integrated mobile and online phone services and the experience is reminiscent of the iPhone’s visual voicemail application only taken several steps further.
The recently announced Amphibian Enhanced Visual Voicemail service will transcribe voice messages to text and let you search messages. You will be able to receive copies of voicemail as text or MP3, and the service is intended to work on a variety of platforms including PC desktop, iPhone, SMS/text, and voice applications. The Shout feature will let you send one message - email with MP3 attachment - to several people at once.
What’s particularly interesting is the Caller ID 2.0 feature which will scout the internet - search engines, blogs, social networks - and bring back information about the caller.
One Response to “More Than Messaging: Voicemail 2.0?”
Hey Kyle
Don / Ribbit here. Thanks for writing about Ribbit.Your readers should also be aware that Ribbit is also an open development platform so all the features you see in Amphibian are also available through the Flex (and soon flash)API and can be added to their own web projects.
Check out the developer site: http://developer.ribbit.com/
Don