My last wish list of voice mashups — apps that voice and calling features could be added to — spurred a few more ideas from colleagues. So here’s a second Top 5 Voice Mashup Wish List:
1. iGoogle. A simple yet effective app would be a VoIP call control widget for personal iGoogle start pages. You could activate features such as Do Not Disturb from your most-used web page.
2. Twitter or Yammer. The micro-blogging tool Twitter is hot… when its servers aren’t overloaded. Yammer, winner of the TechCrunch50, is expected to take off as well. Yammer is essentially Twitter for the enterprise. One pretty cool idea is to use Twitter or Yammer via a mobile phone or PC to send a text message to your VoIP network to activate or deactivate features. Imagine tweeting to turn on Simultaneous Ring.
3. Social network widgets. If you haven’t tried the Click2Message Facebook widget, I suggest you give it whirl. Click2Message allows your friends on Facebook to call you using any phone simply by inputting their number into the widget. The widget keeps your number private. Well, it’s time to expand widgets like this to more social networking sites, such as MySpace, the Korean site Cyworld, & Hi5, which is popular in Spanish-speaking countries.
4. Active contact lists. Contact lists can become more valuable by extending caller ID capabilities to contact lists. Imagine a mashup that pulls info from multiple sources—such as Facebook, Plaxo, and LinkedIn profiles—to give you a 360 view of contacts. Then maybe you can begin a phone conversation by asking about the contact’s political interests (“How about that Obama speech?”) or the last book they read.
5. Dating site widgets. Connecting with someone via an online dating site is full of risks. But a widget that protects the phone number of both parties can let women get to know a love interest without worrying about stalking. Users should be able to activate the widget only for matches that interest them, and turn it off when there’s no love connection.
Of course, voice mashups are only possible with voice over IP platforms that have APIs and active developer communities. Anymore great ideas for voice mashups?