Truphone have officially announced their Call Me Facebook application, which I briefly mentioned last week. The big feature is the embeddable Call Me button. It can be dropped into any place on Facebook that can take an attachment — you can:
- Embed your 'Call Me' button within Facebook messages;
- Post your 'Call Me' button onto a friends wall;
- Drop your 'Call Me' button onto Facebook groups and discussion boards.
Call Me is an embedded softphone. That means callers simply click the button, which dials the button's owner, and creates a call between the callers PC and the owners phone. The owners phone can be virtually any device ranging from a telephone to a cellular phone or an IM client like GoogleTalk.
Cool!
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.
