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Using Siri Huge traffic potential for us if Siri works with dottel. Call my Psychiatrist Find a Grocery Get Ratings Find Rebates Find Veterinary Find Gunsmith Find Pharmacist Find Obstetrician |
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Agreed - every man and his dog will want the words Call/Phone/Dial/Find/Get etc. to find its way to their software application with the words following as the parameters to initiate the action. It's a shame a deal hasn't been done with Apple so that one (or more) of the words Call/Phone/Dial is automatically linked to a .tel DNS lookup - but for that to work we would have needed to establish a "critical mass" of millions of active .tels populated with phone numbers - and Apple would have needed a big incentive to give such an important word (or words) to a single company, such as owning them ! Interesting times lie just ahead - and as Mark recently pointed out there are several other phone manufacturers / operating systems which also offer voice recognition and could be a target for .tel DNS lookups. The way things are looking like it will probably be Call By Voice, rather than Dial By Name, that will be the .tel Killer App ! Mike Seaton[/size] |
Very interesting indeed Mike. Think of the possibilities with all the languages as well. Multiple billions of combinations. Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc... |
Call by voice won't be the killer app, this will: http://technorati.com/technology/art...d-helicopters/ , and I don't know why Telnic are dragging their feet over this! |
SERPS Position 1 contains phone number ? If you are going to do Call By Voice, assuming you can get Apple to send the command to your software application, it seems unlikely that you will be able to just do a lookup based on that person's name and adding ".tel", since that will not always give you the site/page with their phone number on. Some are approaching this by once they have got the name doing a search on Google and then picking up the phone details from SERPS Position 1. If this approach is followed .tel has an inbuilt advantage since it's phone numbers are held in a structured way on the page, unlike other TLDs. Just tried out some "phone firstname lastname" searches (without the quotes) on my own .tel search engine http://www.net-link.com/tel to see if the first result (P1) that comes up contains that person's phone number. Here are the results (in alphabetical order): phone christopher vanderhorst - P1 http://personal.van.tel contains phone number phone justin hayward - P1 http://justin.tel contains phone number phone mark kolb - P1 http://mark-kolb.corporate.kprobe.tel contains phone number phone mike seaton - P1 http://mikeseaton.tel contains phone number So a small sample, but all returned P1 of SERPS with the phone number in, even though 2 of 4 did not have a phone number listed in the home page. Check out your own .tel at http://www.net-link.com/tel and see if your .tel page containing your phone number comes up at SERPS P1 for "phone firstname lastname" (without the quotes) - it looks like this could be a prerequisite for Call By Voice working OK for you ! Mike Seaton |
Good stuff Mike, Mark |
