Talkster today announced offering Facebook users completely free long distance, international and group conference calling. Built on Facebook Platform, a platform that enables companies and developers to build applications for the Facebook website, Talkster’s Free World Dialing application not only delivers free calling, but also allows Facebook users to preserve the privacy of their personal phone numbers when calling or receiving calls from their Facebook friends worldwide.
Other calling applications available on Facebook Platform offer discounted calling or limit free calls to VoIP. Not Talkster. Talkster’s Free World Dialing application for Facebook lets people set-up group or one-on-one calls from any phone to any other phone. It doesn’t matter if you are calling from a cell phone, a landline, your computer, a VoIP phone, or even from a voice-enabled instant messenger service like Google Talk, Yahoo!, AOL, or MSN; they will all work with the Talkster Free World Dialing application on Facebook, and the calls will always be free.
With Talkster’s Free World Dialing application on Facebook people can set up their calls from their Facebook profile page, select the friends they want to call from their Facebook account, and even add other phone numbers from outside Facebook to be included in a group call. Advertising and special personalized offers for callers cover the cost of the calls.
The sixth-most trafficked website in the United States, Facebook is a social utility that offers an efficient way for people to stay connected with their friends and the people around them. A truly global community, Facebook users communicate and share information through the social graph, the network of connections and relationships between people from all over the world. Talkster’s Free World Dialing Application aims to give the more than 47 million active Facebook users one more way to communicate, share, and get to know one another even better. Now no matter where they are located, Facebook users can speak live with their global Facebook friends - for free.
While not N770- or N800-related, these contests might be interesting for anybody developing for Nokia platforms.
2008 Mobile Rules Annual Business Plan and Application Competition will open its gates on August 1st, and right now you can upload your picture to appear on a back seat of a limo in a company of two faithful mobile software engineering fans, supposedly users of your great wireless application. You can read the competition rules here.
Nokia Open C Challenge has the deadline of August 31, 2007: “Entries to the Open C Challenge are mobile applications created for the S60 3rd Edition platform. Each application must include at least one open source software component that is ported to the S60 platform using the Open C libraries or a new application developed in the Open C environment. Feel free to port components that you have written yourself, or code that is freely available in an open source community.”
Nokia has just announced an update to the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, feature upgrade release is now available for download. The update (version number 4.2007.26-8) includes Skype client support, Adobe® Flash® 9 browser plug-in, improvements in online use times and single memory card support up to 8 GB.
The Open Force has an article on Nokia Internet tablet development program and provides an overview of it:
All of the source code for the N800 is available under open source license at Maemo.org. There’s also a decent SDK, documentation, APIs, various hosted projects, applications and blogs. And there appears to be a growing community of Nokia-toting internet addicts who are out to build new apps for the N800.
With VidConvert from Andrew Flegg, you can convert any online video to Nokia 770 compatible DivX format. The video has to be posted online beforehand, since the service asks for URL, but it also accepts videos off YouTube and Google Video.
Next up? If only someone could take the feed of most popular videos off YouTube, and convert it to podcast format compatible with Nokia 770 reader, so that every morning you’d have a fresh video on your portable.
GPE-Sudoku for Nokia 770 is available for download.
StreamTuner for Nokia 770 provides access to numerous music radiostations, talk stations, comedy and religious channels.
Om Malik reports on Gizmo project client for Nokia 770. Gizmo Project is the software product of SIPPhone, the download for Nokia 770 is available here.
Moises Martinez says he’s almost done with a Bloglines port to Maemo platform for Nokia 770. What’s Bloglines? It’s an RSS feed reader (currently part of Ask.com) that has a rather large following and usable interface. Check out Moises’ screenshots, looks like a rather good job.
Yannick Pellet is hiring for 7 positions for Nokia 770 app development.