I’ve added a few already www.Ideas.tel www.PotLights.tel www.HotVideos.tel www.2020.tel www.TelVideos.tel

For a small business, videos add credibility to your services. Anyone can make a video and post it to [...]]]> Today’s proxy release has sealed the deal for those waiting for tight video integration with .tel pages. Not only is video available from three providers, you can also have one per subdomain page.

I’ve added a few already
www.Ideas.tel
www.PotLights.tel
www.HotVideos.tel
www.2020.tel
www.TelVideos.tel

For a small business, videos add credibility to your services. Anyone can make a video and post it to their site easily. No programming required.

Free tools for insertion and management are available at the new TelMasters Community page.

Happy Video’n

Of course I’m aware about how difficult it is selling a disruptive technology (like .tel) to established global players. For this reason I would like to give some supporting arguments why it is so important for Telcos to join the .tel project.

In the very [...]]]> This is a reprint of the thread started by Jens at Telnic forum:

Of course I’m aware about how difficult it is selling a disruptive technology (like .tel) to established global players.
For this reason I would like to give some supporting arguments why it is so important for Telcos to join the .tel project.

In the very near future Telcos have to be afraid of losing their main sources of income, e. g.:

1.) Landline network:
What is the advantage of using the fixed line network? Can you do anything with it you can’t do with cell phones even better?
Even in companies it’s much wiser to provide your employees just a cell phone, so they will be reachable anywhere and anytime.

Conclusion:
The traditional phone network will die!

2.) SMS:
Everybody who is using push e-mails knows that SMS is an old-fashioned technology: messages are too short, too uncomfortable to write and too expensive.
Instead push e-mails are unlimited in length, comfortable to write and cheap (respectively for free).
So why anybody with a smartphone should write SMS in the future?

Conclusion:
At this moment we see the peak in amount of SMS appearance. As soon more people will switch from dummy phones to smartphones the amount will decrease dramatically until the service for SMS will disappear completely.

3.) Mobile phone connections:
If my partner and I have a smartphone with fast internet connection, we can just use services for free (like Skype) which offer us much more options (e. g. visibility of availability) than just calling each other.
This doesn’t work at the moment because of the following situations:

Too many customers are still using dummy phones.
Fast mobile internet (like UMTS and in the future LTE) is only available in areas of high population density.

In 5 years these limitations have been disappeared.

Conclusion:
Taking a look at the future development, phone users will just require a mobile internet flatrate without using traditional phone communication services anymore.

What does this all mean for Telcos?
The outlook is in the future they won’t have any traditional revenues at all!

So they need a new business model. And here comes their solution:
Name dialing with .tel domains!

This offers Telcos new revenues:

Distribution of new kind of phone numbers (in several ways)
Introduction of fees for connections dialed via mobile internet
Introduction of scales for different kind of phone numbers; so different rates will apply for dialing different kind of numbers
Fees for additional features of dialing and organizing phone numbers
Directly in the operation system of the cell phone integrated advertisement related to the topic of the dialed phone number
Selling premium name phone numbers
Offering uncountable new services based on name phone numbers
Being the first provider for name dialing (which gives an important head start against competitors)
And many more

If Telcos will think about this topic seriously, they can’t miss the opportunities .tel domains are offering them!

PS: These are only some first ideas written quickly. Suggestions are always welcome!

Zazzle Product Images are found over all the pages [...]]]> Searching for an easy way to add images to your .tel domains? Look no further. Our Feed My Tel tool lets you feed images from any image-based RSS feed. This includes eBay, Flickr, Zazzle and news feeds like CBC. Here are some sample sites with live content:

Zazzle Product Images are found over all the pages on this site: www.ZazzleStores.tel
www.Products.ZazzleStores.tel
Olympic Products
Veterans

Flickr Images on main pages: www.Frankfurt-Fotograf.tel
www.PresseTeam.tel

News Feeds from Canada: News Alerts

eBay Feeds with images: Die Cast Vehicles

Clicking an image takes you to a related page (from the RSS feed).

In addition to providing images, links from the RSS feed are inserted into the page. On a predetermined cycle, these links and images are replaced with new content.

Here’s an interesting bonus: When you add more than two images, your site displays random images from a pool of images. This is due to the random nature of the DNS (internet backbone) that .Tel uses. So when you refresh the page or visitors see the site, the images will be shown randomly. You can place a maximum of 100 images per page minus the number of records already present. So its easy to create a gallery of 50 or more images, shown two at a time.

To start using this feature, you can either use the free Quick Update tool for static images, or the Feed My Tel tool (still only $2.88 per year) to feed multiple images daily or weekly.

Well, necessity is the mother of invention, and with that in mind, I present to you TEL CALL [...]]]> Wouldn’t it be nice if while you were driving you could quickly call that memorable (.tel) website you just saw on the back of a truck or sign on the road without taking your hands off the wheel?

Well, necessity is the mother of invention, and with that in mind, I present to you TEL CALL ME, the beginnings of that dream.

TEL CALL ME is a prototype geo-aware, HTML5 application that shows you how you can literally tell your cell phone to call a local .tel website. Interesting you say? Well the reality is that it is still very much a desktop app, however the potential for widening the impact of DNS dialing is enormous. Voice recognition and contact dialing features are already built in to today’s iPhones, Blackberries and other smart phones. Extending IVR to support intelligent, local DNS dialing seems rather simple and the logical next step.

Imagine a day when every telco operator can provide instant web calling to your local taxi company or pizza delivery or your friend. Call a tel domain, call your friend’s tel by voice.

With .tel contact data floating around in the DNS, the ability for Apple or RIM or Nokia to enable their smart phone users to call a website, product or service exists today. Just wide-spread use of .tel is the only impediment to awaken this technological solution to hands-free driving.

Fire up TEL CALL ME in Chrome and talk to it. Examine the results and the potential.

Give www.TelCall.me a try and see if we can find a way to get some big player to embrace it.

With TelView, owners now have the added capability to have their coupons show up on the map. Although there is yet to [...]]]> With the recent ability to insert images into your .tel domain, small business owners have been able to include coupons and offers for the past couple of months. These are generally displayed as banners.

With TelView, owners now have the added capability to have their coupons show up on the map. Although there is yet to be a standard set for the discovery of coupons, we can still show them in TelView. The big advantage to the .tel owner is that there is NO ADVERTISING COST and in addition, you control when you place offers – in real-time. The push is near-instant, taking less than 5 minutes to propagate the DNS (internet). The community learns about offers in minutes.

Here’s a live example as found via TelView. It’s just an experiment as there is no standard yet for storing coupons. This might just be one implementation – many are possible, as are display formats.

Dot Tel Coupons On The Map