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From: Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:24:11 +0530 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [silk] A new Social Communication Network: Bellster Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What a cool idea! I wonder if there's a business model or two lurking in here... Udhay >this is an amazing extension of the idea initially implemented by >tpc.int. While I can't afford to give up any of my phone lines, getting a >third line just for this purpose is not a bad idea. Especially when it >would be irritating as hell to the phone company. > >One could use Internet technology to reimplement 1960s Soviet/Third World >country phone use enabling people from all over the world queue up to use >a telephone. > >---eric > > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: [FWD] A new Social Communication Network: Bellster >Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:42:28 -0500 >From: Jeff Pulver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Free World Dialup - The Future of Dialing ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hi All, > >Back in the Fall of 1995, with the help of some friends, Free World Dialup >(FWD) version 1.0 happened. The original concept was to setup a computer, >modem and let a friend (or a stranger) place a call over the internet via >your computer. This was done on an experimental, non-commercial, voluntary >basis and we had quite a number of people who contributed their own time, >effort and energy to make it work. FWD was the world's first internet >telephony network and was a pioneer in the field of PC to Phone >communication services. > >Back in November 2000 I once again looked at re-creating the spirit of the >original FWD project but this time we tried to do it using the broadband >internet. After several months of work we were able to get the underlying >software to work pretty good, but our project became challenged once the >hardware devices we optimized the software for, the Cisco ATA-182 were >discontinued. We were live in beta in April 2001 when CNET ran the story: >Can a peer-to-peer phone network fly? (see: ><http://news.com.com/2100-1033-253297.html?legacy=cnet>). > >Fast forward to January, 2005 and with the beta launch of Bellster.net we >are finally able to offer a peer-to-peer network where members of the >network can share their PSTN access with each other. This "network" will >only become a network once there is a critical mass number of people who >are contributing to the success of Bellster. > >Bellster is based on a couple of underlying philosophies: > >(1) "If you Build it They will Come" -- Field of Dreams >(2) "The Love you Take is equal to the Love you Make" -- Beatles, "The >End" > >The Bellster challenge for 2005 is to find out whether or not there are >still people in the world who would let total strangers place >non-commercial phone calls for free in exchange for the ability to do the >same thing themselves. At the moment we have a handful of active nodes >around the world, and as the word of Bellster spreads, my hope is that our >network will be able to deliver calls to the PSTN all around the world. > >Bellster is based on Asterisk and operates as an IAX exchange. > >If you are interested in experimenting with Asterisk and would like to >contribute to the Bellster Social Communication Network, please feel free >to visit www.bellster.net for more information and sign up today. > >Best regards, > > Jeff > >_____________________________________________________________ >List Archives: (http://listserv.pulver.com/archives/fwd.html) >Unsubscribe: (http://tinyurl.com/mg1m) > >-- -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net
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