The next part of David Beckemeyer’s vision for PhoneGnome unfolded yesterday. David dropped me a piece of email to announce the arrival of the PhoneGnome API, and developers community. In it he said:
Basically, plugging PhoneGnome in "opens up" your landline, giving it an API, enabling various kinds of convergence applications. Applications can control the home landline, query call records, use the on-line phonebook (enabling a shared, single phonebook, or sync the PhoneGnome phonebook with some other phonebook), all kinds of things your landline provider, and even today’s VoIP providers are not giving us. Way cool! More information is available at:
Phoneboy wrote a quick review, as did Chris Holland. Phoneboy is right — the challenge now will be to get developers to use these APIs.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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