TringMe directly available to all AOL/AIM users

TringMe now enables millions of AIM users to use AIM Call Out directly from TringMe. This gives AOL/AIM users a lot of convenient options to make calls. AIM users can use TringPhone - TringMe’s fully web-based SIP phone to make calls directly from the browser. With TringMe’s MobileVoIP solution, AOL/AIM users can use a mobile device (e.g. Symbian devices) to make VoIP calls from a mobile device. If they desire to use Gtalk to make VoIP calls over this service, that’s supported too. In general, AOL/AIM users can use any of TringMe’s supported originating devices to make calls (say Gtalk).

In short, AOL/AIM users can quickly benefit from the complementing services offered by TringMe.

It’s very easy to use AIM callout service from TringMe. Just login to your TringMe account, enter your AIM or AOL screen-name (AOLScreenName@aol.com or AIMScreenName@aim.com) and SIP password in the TringPhone settings. Do specify “AOL” in the Domain or Proxy setting as well. That’s all you need to do in order to use TringPhone for making calls through your AIM call-out account.

This is yet another addition to the services and capabilities offered by TringMe. Alongwith the above mentioned addition, we continue to offer our own VoIP capabilities and competitive rates to make worldwide calls.

Roll-out your own click-to-call service

Convenience of Click-to-call service has created so much buzz in the media that a lot of individual users and companies who have a web-presence (Blogs, Social Networking profiles, Customer support etc) are interested in using such a service. For e.g. An online directory service or a local search engine or even an individual user wants to have click-to-call callback based service available via their websites. For those who are unaware, a web-based click-to-call service based on callback technology allows users to click a button embedded on a Website, an e-mail, an online directory, or a social networking profile and then immediately speak with an user or a customer service representative on another end. It works by requiring user to type in their number, type in the destination number and then click on the ‘call’ button to be connected.

However, building a reliable click-to-call callback requires substantial amount of knowledge in VoIP, good backend infrastructure and maintenance. Good news is that now it is easy to build such a service in a matter of few minutes with just a few lines of code (php, perl, AJAX etc) using TringMe APIs.

Since the release of our APIs, we got several requests from developers who were interested in knowing how they could build their own click-to-call services. You can have the button/widget running without getting into the complex world of VoIP or any expensive setup. The complete source code to implement such a service is now available for download, completely free of cost and free of royalties!!!

To use the code as it is, put the script on your web server. Replace the variables with your own API keys & phone number and you are done. You can add more spices to it as you like – for example, AJAX, forms etc.

Complete code below:

<?php
include_once (”tringmeapi.php”);

$publickey = “yourpublicapikey”;
$privatekey = “yourprivateapikey”;

$parameters=array();
$parameters[’op’]=’c2c’;
$parameters[’apikey’]=$publickey;
$parameters[’callsrc’]=’18585551111′;
$parameters[’calldest’]=’18585552222′;

$response = TringMeAPI($parameters, $privatekey);

?>

Download TringMe API & Source Code

Click-to-call also allows you to offer VoIP services under your brand. We offer bulk rate and extended APIs to all who like to implement such services.

To know more about TringMe APIs and how to build many more innovative services, visit our developer’s page here.

TringMe announces API availability and opens up source-code of its Flash telephony widgets

TringMe opens up its platform APIs for developers to empower them to create rich web-based voice applications. TringMe’s open API will allow developers of Adobe Flex, AIR, Symbian S60 or even a pure web platform like PHP, AJAX to create web based, mobile or standalone voice enabled applications easily. For example, Social networking, Dating sites can easily integrate voice as a means of communication in innovative ways, VoIP providers can quickly deploy and offer their services using TringMe’s easy to use Adobe-Flash based web-phone or mobile devices enabled via cheap to use Mobile-VoIP, Game developers, virtual world creators can enable making phone calls from virtual world to real world and vice-versa. The platform is written from scratch to cater to the emerging needs of the internet, mobile devices and their diverse usage - in real world or virtual.

TringMe prides in abstracting the inner details of call signaling and call processing by exposing easy to use, standards based APIs for developers to essentially innovate at the applications level - be it be web based apps, apps for mobile devices or desktop based apps. Our modular structure allows us to offer APIs to be used by any kind of application and not tie us to Adobe Flex, AIR, PHP, AJAX or any such technology or platform. We are offering interface which is cross-platform and scalable on any language. Whether it’s just voice enabling a website, a social networking site (facebook, orkut, myspace etc.), integrating voice into CRM, Sales Management tool or a full-featured desktop AIR application, TringMe’s APIs will scale to your requirements.

Using the simple to use REST based APIs, developers can add telephony capabilities to their apps in a matter of couple of hours. TringMe’s APIs will allow developers to configure and utilize any number of call origination and call termination options as supported by TringSwitch (PSTN, Mobile Phones, VoIP apps, SIP URIs, IM - Gtalk, SMS-initiated calls, Web applications, Browser, Desktop widgets etc).

Developers can also create their own Adobe Flash, Flex or AIR application based on TringMe’s standards based APIs in a matter of couple of hours. Given the powerful functionality of Adobe Flash and the ease of use of TringMe’s APIs, developers will be able to produce compelling voice enabled apps using Adobe’s - Flash, Flex or AIR - technologies. For example, developers can create a fully-functional desktop phone on top of TringMe APIs using Adobe AIR technology.

Unlike some other voice API platforms/technologies/companies, TringMe does not charge for it’s platform APIs. It is completely FREE to build voice enabled applications using TringMe APIs.

To commit itself to the developer community, TringMe also opens up the source code of it’s Flash based widgets. We really want the developers to get a headstart in writing quality applications that integrate voice as a fundamental part of the internet. For e.g. if someone is interested in offering a web-based click-to-call solution based on callback technology (i.e type in your number, type in the destination number and click “call”), as offered by companies like Jajah, Jaxtr, etc. they can implement the meat of the offering in a matter of couple of hours with TringMe APIs.

TringMe’s Mobile-VoIP offering can be leveraged by developers as well. Essentially, it opens up a way by which mobile applications can interface with TringMe. Mobile VoIP customization capability is currently available to limited set of partners and will be available to all developers soon.

So let the voice enabled apps, built on a platform that’s specially optimized for telephony, begin to flow. In other words, let TringMe worry about enabling a reliable voice connection on the internet+mobile and you figure out ways to incorporate this feature in areas where it truly matters - areas like real world scenarios wherein voice can play a dominant effect - and means to creatively monetize the integration thereafter.

TringMe’s API details can be accessed at http://tringme.com/developer.php

We have exposed some more functionality through out partner-only-APIs and will make them available to everyone at a later time. If you need access to functionality besides what’s currently exposed by our platform APIs, do let us know.

We are very much interested in understanding how you intend to use TringMe’s platform. If you have something cool, we will feature it on our website. We are also putting together a place where you can show off your apps via TringMe’s website .. so stay tuned.

100,000 Registered Users & Going Strong

We are extremely pleased to announce TringMe crosses over a 100,000 users since it’s launch in Oct 2007. We are absolutely thrilled to be gaining momentum at such speed, as our service is now being used in several countries.

The word of mouth distribution, contributions from the bloggers worldwide and adoption rate of our platform is proof that people are looking for simpler to stay voice connected with each other. We are adding more features, features that we think will help innovate in this area and look forward to future successes.

Our users continue to be key to our success and we sincerely take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of you for using TringMe. TringMe’s vision is to bring Voice 2.0 to a spectrum which ranges from high-end mobile phones, web, IMs to a common man’s low cost handset, provide capabilities to applications on the web to incorporate this functionality via it’s platform and essentially make voice a fundamental part of the web. It’s been a great ride so far and we hope to cover a lot more road in the future .. Thanks again