virtual desktops for .tel: July 2010

Tuesday 27 July 2010

The Love Train

Adding to the Dot Tel launch hoopla was the infamous Ben.tel video depicting two hormone-laden Brits fighting for the attention of an uptown blonde – all while riding an intercity train. The one who scribbled “Ben.tel” on the window with his opponent’s latte won the girl.

Preselecting phone numbers: Calling from a mobile website integrated .Tel sub domain, via a main .Tel domain. Prior to calling, watch a slide show.

The basic idea:

Viewing a related slide show, prior to making a phone call. Something like this (App.: "Ting!"):

Going from the "Ting!" concept, I suggest the following idea, for a preselect phone dialing:

1.) A Dot Tel domain.

2.) A mobile website.

On that mobile website you have the following:

3.) A slide show, about yourself or your company.

4.) A integrated Dot Tel sub domain which only displays your phone number and email:

(This would better be a sub domain, for economic reasons, as you will want have more contact information on your main Dot Tel domain.)

Conclusion:

Before dialing a number, the potential contact person, can learn a bit more about your company ("mycompany").

Basically, you only provide your phone numbers, on such mobile websites, with a slide show, each, and don't only publish a single phone number on a .Tel.

Because you have a integrated Dot Tel page, in a website, you can do "click to call", from that website.

So, instead of providing a phone link, you would be providing a web link ("Go To my phone number") to a mobile website, that has a mini slide show, providing some specific info about the owner of the phone number, which you might want to contact. This info, will make your decision, weather to call, or not, a hole lot easier.

Can you see, where I am going?...

The smartest thing, would be, to create a mobile website with contact info, as well as a integrated short slide show about you or your company, and have a link going to it, from your Dot Tel domain, instead of providing single phone number links on a Dot Tel domain.

On that mobile website, you would integrate a sub domain of that Dot Tel domain.

Does it sound complicated?:
Well, here is a mind map:

Link to mind map:
http://bubbl.us/view.php?sid=701414&pw=ya5GnofBhbpYAMjJlWUw4Wm0zWHpWbw

www.mycompany.com/mobile
includes:

www.subdomain.mycompany.tel
(from where you can "click to call"),
as well as a

mini slideshow about "mycompany" (which you look at, before you decide to make a call).

The call, is two clicks away, as you click on the link to the (other) mobile website, and from there, you click on the phone number, which is a link on the displayed .Tel sub domain of the .Tel domain, from where you started navigating.

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Monday 26 July 2010

Add-ons for Firefox: .tel Info 0.8.1

Add-ons for Firefox:
.tel Info 0.8.1
Works with Firefox: 2.0 – 3.6.

This extension will find any .tel addresses on a webpage and if any are found it will display a purple icon in the status bar and tool bar which can be clicked on to display the .tel information. If the tool bar icon doesn't display it can be added by going to View > Toolbars > Customise and selecting the .tel icon from the list.

Arthur Guy has basically created a simple way for people who are browsing websites to quickly pull .tel contact information from .tel names linked to the site. The first is for Google Chrome and the second is for FireFox. Both plug-ins are easy and quick to install (with Firefox requiring a re-start). Both have an icon that shows that .tel name information is available (Google’s indicator is in the browser bar, whereas FireFox’s is down in the bottom right-hand side of the browser window) and both list all of the .tel names available having automagically verified that they are indeed real by doing a DNS lookup. Both of these plug-ins make it really easy for people to find and utilize contact information from .tel if website owners have linked their websites to this contact information, providing a really easy display of a live ‘contact us’ page integrated with a website but without the user having to navigate to another page to find the information. We’re really pleased that developers are starting to take an interest in .tel and really getting the idea of simple-to-pull contact information being useful to end users.

Download source page:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/107869

Info source (main text):
http://www.telnic.org/blog/2010/03/23/saving-customers-time/

Sunday 25 July 2010

.Tel in eine gleichlautende .Mobi einbinden

Soeben habe ich eine neue Theorie ausgedacht, bei dem man eine .Tel-Businesskarte in eine gleichlautende .Mobi Handywebsite einbinden kann:
Die Kosten für das Einrichten und Unterhalten einer .Mobi Domain, wären somit so tief wie nur möglich, und das kann man als Laie selber bewerkstelligen.
Der .Mobi benutzer bekommt dann eine .Tel-Website zu sehen.
Der Benutzer wählt eher eine .Mobi, weil ihm diese Domain bereits vertraut ist. Da das Redirekting auf eine .Tel zur Zeit technisch nicht möglich ist (weil man keinen eigenen Host hat), wäre hiermit ein Problem schon gelöst.
Siehe auch die Diskussion:
http://www.toutpointtel.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=222
Fazit: So schnell, einfach und kostengünstig, hat noch Niemand eine .Mobi Webseite erstellt und online eingestellt.

Es macht nun auf einmal viel Sinn, .Tel und .Mobi Domains zu registrieren (vorzugsweise, paarweise, mit je einer anderen Domain-Suffix .mobi/.tel).

In anderen Worten, heisst das, dass man viel Traffic auf seine .Tel-Data erhalten kann, aber nicht auf seine .Tel-Domain selbst. Was auch nicht allzu schlimm ist.

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Thursday 22 July 2010

Integrate .TEL into your Website using iFrames

Since the release of .Tel last year, many people have asked "what can I do with my .Tel name"? There are many great ways youmcan use it, but here's a new development that got me excited.

Telnic recently released a string of code to easily integrate .Tel on your website using iFrames.

An iFrame tag (eg. <iframe> ) defines an inline frame that contains another document.

The code is EXTREMELY easy to incorporate and took me less than 2 minutes to setup (no joke) on my personal website which uses a modified WordPress blog template.

Take a look: http://ramifilms.com/contact

By integrating your .Tel name into your website you can effectively change your contact information simply by updating your .TEL. Once it is setup, you just login to your .TEL interface and make changes to your contact information and you are done.

Picture a company with 100 employees who each use a .Tel name. By integrating all their Tel names on one website, you can easily build an online directory that is independently updated by a 100 different individuals.

Can't picture it? Here's an example of a small .Tel directory embedded into a Webnames.ca WebBuilder site.

To embed your .TEL into your website, just follow Telnic's easy integration instructions:http://telnic.org/tools-website-integration.html.

Source:
http://blog.webnames.ca/tel/

Wednesday 21 July 2010

.tel of the Week: ecycler.tel

To demonstrate the functionality and what can be achieved with a .tel domain, Telnic will be selecting examples, which it will promote on this page. We are primarily interested in .tels that are helpful, well-populated and discover innovative ways to keep in touch.

This page will feature a new .tel domain each week. Please note that ".tel of the week" is not sponsored by any .tel domain owner, and is based exclusively on arbitrary choice of Telnic as the registry operator. If you would like your .tel to be featured on our site, please write on our forum. Not all submitted domains will be featured.

.tel domain: ecycler.tel

Description: – innovative recycling business

Link: http://ecycler.tel/