I agree that there will be lots of them that "flash" in 2008. My guess is that none will make any money and the only one to survive will be Adobe because they will likely bundle it for free with their Flash download.

What would be great, but will probably never happen is a neat little Flash widget that allowed you to make pure SIP calls, i.e. with the provider of your choice or point-to-point that's free and doesn't have some sort of advertising associated with it. Something like a Flash based, SIP VoIP version of the old talk program for UNIX.

FM

With your well wishes, you can expect to see just such a widget from EnThinnai. We are working on it.

Good post Aswath, thanks for the pointers.

I like the idea of a flash based interface abstracted from the actual device - like the services described. It's kind of like itunes for the ipod.

The ability to support multiple devices means that the service is ubiquitous. None of this 'gateway' talk that confuses users. "Use your existing stuff!" is a good sales point.

Of course, telephony is only one part of today's communication - I hope we see more developments along the lines of modelling conversations better. Hint hint

Great post Aswath,

As a key member of TringMe team, I can clarify that there is no tie-up between TringMe and any other companies. We developed this platform from scratch and here are some technical details about how we developed it

http://blog.tringme.com/its-tringging

On Jitter, we have adaptive jitter buffer in our platform (part of voice engine in above post) that allows us to maintain quality even in low bandwidth.

Btw, you gave us new name TringMedia!!! and we liked it so much that we grabbed the domains immediately – so our next product is named by you - thanks Aswath :)

Hello All,
Is there any open source flash and web based softphone or dialer available?

A good question, but unfortunately do not know of any. Probably others may know.