Exkurs:
Wenn Du eine Information verstehen willst, so musst Du bereits bestimmte Informationen in Deinem Gehirn gespeichert haben, auf die Du zurückgreifen kannst.
Zum Beispiel, liest Du einen Zeitungsartikel: „Paul McCartny hat eine Wohltätigkeitsveranstaltung besucht“: Aber wenn Du nicht bereits weisst, wer Paul McCartny ist, so sagt Dir die Information wenig.
Dies gilt für das menschliche Gehirn: Gespeicherte Info, ist Voraussetzung für die Aufnahme und Speicherung von neuer Info.
Das Auge „scannt“ einen Text ab, und leitet den Text (in einer bestimmten Form) zum Gehirn weiter, wo das Gehirn, nach bereits gespeicherten ähnlichen oder gleichen Begriffen in zusammenhängenden Sachverhalten sucht. Sobald ein „Matching“, Abgleichen mit diesen Begriffen stattfindet, kann auch wieder auf die bereits gespeicherte Info zurückgegriffen werden. Diese Infos, und dieses Wissen, werden nochmal aktiert, und die neue Info, kann dann in die bestehenden Informationen eingeordnet, und somit verstanden werden.
Wenn Du nun etwas Neuartiges, wie eine neue Technologie einführen möchtest, so geht es wohl immer am Ringsten, wenn Du auf Bestehendes zurückgreifen kannst, um zu erkären, dass das Neuartige eine Weiterentwicklung des Bestehenden, Bekannten und Gewohnten ist.
Ende Exkurs.
Worin liegt an sich das Problem mit der Einführung und Verbreitung der Dot Tel Domain?
Also, erst einmal, wegen seiner Komplexität, denn man kann sehr viel damit machen:
1.) Es ist eine mobile Website, welche man auch von seinem Handy aus aktualisieren kann (MyTel).
2.) Man kann die mobile Webseite in seine Hauptwebseite einbinden, unter „Kontakt“. Was so viel auch heisst, dass man sie auch in eine Dot Mobi Webseite einbinden könnte, ohne unbedingt Kosten zu haben, um eine Handy-Version seiner Webseite machen zu müssen.
Oder, man braucht gar keine andere Webseite zu haben, als nur eine Dot Mobi, und eine gleichlautende Dot Tel Domain.
3.) Man braucht keinen eigenen Hoster, und bezahlt deshalb auch nicht für Hosting.
4.) Man hat eine persönliche Internet-Adresse: „meinefirma.tel“, anstatt sich mit Facebook, MySpace oder Twitter & Co. identifizieren zu müssen, und dort nur eine Subdomain benutzen kann, die einem nicht gehört.
Etc, etc.
Um eine Dot Tel Domain ganzheitlich zu verstehen, müsste man alle seine Eigenschaften erfassen und verstehen können.
Leider geht das Allgemeine Verständis nur bis dahin, als dass man die Dot Tel Domain nur als eine online Geschäfts- oder Social-Networking-Karte betrachtet.
So viel komplexe Info, über die .Tel, können die Medien auch nicht „übermitteln“ oder vermitteln. Eine Dot Tel Domain, kann man nur, so wie wir .Tel Geeks, selbst erkundschaften und kennen lernen, in dem man eine solche Domain besitzt, damit arbeitet, und sich über all seine Funktionen und Eigenschaften informiert.
Und so bleibt wohl nur das Verschenken von .Tel Domains, innerhalb einer Promo-Aktion, oder das Angebot einer kostenlosen Trial-Phase.
Anders, kann man die .Tel wohl nicht Mainstreamfähig machen, da sie sehr komplex ist.
Die .Tel wird zu Unrecht als Unnütz verschrien: Es wurde leider nur etwas die „Oberfläche betrachtet“, und da sieht halt die .Tel gleich aus, wie viel andere Social-Networking-Kontaktkarten oder Kontaktwebseitensubdomains.
Die .Tel kann genial sein, für Den, der sie voll ausnützt.
Ich, auf jeden Fall, habe sie nicht aufgegeben.
Die .Tel Domain wurde geschaffen, um genutzt zu werden: Bei einer Nutzung, kann sie voll zur Stärke gelangen.
Sie kann im Verbund oder in einer Konstellation mit anderen Webseiten und .Tel Domians besonders interaktiv sein, weil man von einer .Tel Domain sehr einfach und günstig telefonieren kann, „on the go“ (also, wenn man unterwegs ist). Was im Prinzip hindeutet, dass man in Zukunft mehr von Handys und anderen „mobile devices“ aus, im Internet surfen wird. Anstatt das integrierte persönliche „Telefonbuch“, wird man von .Tel Domain-Seiten aus telefonieren können. Vorteil, dieser Methode ist, dass die Telefonnummern immer automatisch auf dem aktuellsten Stand sind, und man sein Telefonbuch qasi nur noch mit Dot Tel Domain-Namen füllen kann. Vis versa, kann ich mir vorstellen, dass das Telefonieren vom Laptop oder PC aus, „salonfähiger“ und mehr verbreitet sein wird, weil Telefonnummern einfach durch „click to call“ benutzt werden können, und mühsames Aufschreiben der Nummer, und dann zum Telefongerät laufen zu müssen, dahinfällt.
Es gibt Heute wirklich nichts Einfacheres und kostengünstigeres, in der Erstellung, im Unterhalt, und in der Handhabung einer Handy-Webseite.
Keine andere Handy-Webseite kann den Vergleich mit einer .Tel Seite standhalten. Soweit, ist sie noch „ungeschlagen“ an erster Stelle.
Die .Tel Domain, sollte immer als „Landing Page“ angesehen werden, weshalb ein Vergleich, mit einer herkömmlichen Webseite wenig Sinn macht.
Das Problem ist, das man die .Tel Domain immer versucht, mit Bestehenden Domains zu vergleichen. Und die Kritik, fällt dann oft negativ heraus.
Wenn wir nun zurück an den Anfang dieser Ausführung gehen, erkennen wir vielleicht ein weiteres Dillema: Die Vernüpfung neuer Info mit bestehender Info. Und was in diesem Fall offenbar nicht so recht möglich zu sein scheint. Weshalb viele Benutzer, die noch keine eigenen .Tel-Erfahrung haben, sich den Sinn, Zweck und Nutzen, etc., nicht so recht vorstellen oder nachvollziehenb können.
Es geht also nur wirklich, wenn man „out of the box“ denken kann, und Neues nicht unbedingt im Bezug mit Altem und Bestehendem stellen muss.
Aber, man kann sich öffnen, und auch solche Neuerungen erkundschaften.
Und man kann sich fragen, ob da nicht noch mehr dahinter steckt, hinter dieser .Tel.
Es hat auch einen Grund, weshalb die Domain ca. $10,00 kostet. Bei einem guten Namen, lohnt es sich, die Domain zu erneuern.
Die Gedanken, und die Meinungsäusserung, sind ja frei, aber man soll sich durch viele negative Kritik nicht verunsichern lassen, bevor man nicht selbst, die .Tel Doman einer genaueren Betrachtung unterzogen hat.
Und was tut man nun, als .Tel-Halter?: Man weiss, was man hat, geht unbeirrt weiter, und erstellt und pflegt eine für die Gemeinschaft nützliche und praktische .Tel Domain.
Der Erfolg wird sich einstellen.
Sunday, 22 August 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/
Click to Call concepts
Here is a idea:
1.) Dot Tel web page.
2,) Link to Lady Nastya: nastya.russiangirls.tel
3.) Link goes to picture with click to call option, smilar to the concept of "Ting!"
But my idea, might enable people to decide, if they want to make a call, or not:
"Ting!" shows a full screen slideshow of a caller’s pictures during incoming calls. So the caller can assign to a particular contact several (or at least one) photos. And when this person calls the user can enjoy full screen photos of the contact.
Actually there are apps that act as a full screen caller on the market, but they mostly show just one picture. I assume that the ability to see several contact’s pictures during incoming call at once brings some fun and personalization to Symbian devices.
The application is written in Symbian C++ and consists of 2 parts: service and UI. Service is hidden and used to catch incoming calls, get incoming call number and check if it is added to the application database. If it is in the database, the application starts the slideshow with predefined pictures. The UI part is used to communicate with the application database and manage contacts.
Where to get the app?:
The most exciting thing in making mobile app is ability to use telephony functions and improve user experience in using mobile phone. This has led a developer to "Ting!", being recently launched. More of "Ting!" below.
At the same time the developer has realized, that since he is an independent developer and do most of the work himself, so there is no sense in trying to work with all possible mobile operating systems. In his situation, the only way to succeed as a mobile software vendor is to concentrate on one operating system and to do my best, developing high quality products for this platform. As you may expect he has chosen Symbian, since it is the only operating system which gives him as a developer deep access to telephony and device functions and at the same time gives him as a software vendor access to a really huge audience.
He was lucky enough to realize early that software development is the most easy task in selling product. What really takes most of your time is application promotion.
Implementing license manager, getting publisher id, signing, getting agreements with distributors, etc. That’s why his first product was partly aimed at building essential distribution relations like Handango, Ovi Store, Nokia Download, local Nokia stores here in Russia, etc. But at the same time it was a serious product called Blacklist Mobile which is very successful at the moment.
While working on Blacklist Mobile and it’s modification Whitelist Mobile, he had managed to gather all the telephony-based functionality you can gather using S60 APIs (including some Nokia’s partnering API’s). After that, he started to think how to use this in his next products. And how to use it in a product that can be targeted at a wide audience that has entertainment value. That’s how the idea of Ting! came to his head.
Read more, about "Ting!":
http://blog.symbian.org/2010/01/25/4463/
"Ting!" blog:
http://dtarasov.ru/ting.html
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1.) Dot Tel web page.
2,) Link to Lady Nastya: nastya.russiangirls.tel
3.) Link goes to picture with click to call option, smilar to the concept of "Ting!"
But my idea, might enable people to decide, if they want to make a call, or not:
"Ting!" shows a full screen slideshow of a caller’s pictures during incoming calls. So the caller can assign to a particular contact several (or at least one) photos. And when this person calls the user can enjoy full screen photos of the contact.
Actually there are apps that act as a full screen caller on the market, but they mostly show just one picture. I assume that the ability to see several contact’s pictures during incoming call at once brings some fun and personalization to Symbian devices.
The application is written in Symbian C++ and consists of 2 parts: service and UI. Service is hidden and used to catch incoming calls, get incoming call number and check if it is added to the application database. If it is in the database, the application starts the slideshow with predefined pictures. The UI part is used to communicate with the application database and manage contacts.
Where to get the app?:
The most exciting thing in making mobile app is ability to use telephony functions and improve user experience in using mobile phone. This has led a developer to "Ting!", being recently launched. More of "Ting!" below.
At the same time the developer has realized, that since he is an independent developer and do most of the work himself, so there is no sense in trying to work with all possible mobile operating systems. In his situation, the only way to succeed as a mobile software vendor is to concentrate on one operating system and to do my best, developing high quality products for this platform. As you may expect he has chosen Symbian, since it is the only operating system which gives him as a developer deep access to telephony and device functions and at the same time gives him as a software vendor access to a really huge audience.
He was lucky enough to realize early that software development is the most easy task in selling product. What really takes most of your time is application promotion.
Implementing license manager, getting publisher id, signing, getting agreements with distributors, etc. That’s why his first product was partly aimed at building essential distribution relations like Handango, Ovi Store, Nokia Download, local Nokia stores here in Russia, etc. But at the same time it was a serious product called Blacklist Mobile which is very successful at the moment.
While working on Blacklist Mobile and it’s modification Whitelist Mobile, he had managed to gather all the telephony-based functionality you can gather using S60 APIs (including some Nokia’s partnering API’s). After that, he started to think how to use this in his next products. And how to use it in a product that can be targeted at a wide audience that has entertainment value. That’s how the idea of Ting! came to his head.
Read more, about "Ting!":
http://blog.symbian.org/2010/01/25/4463/
"Ting!" blog:
http://dtarasov.ru/ting.html
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Sunday, 25 July 2010
If I only had one domain name, why it should be a .TEL
Sure, sure, I get why you wouldn’t have a website — I’m in small business myself. But if you (or your neighbours’ 15yr old) has the savvy to set up a wordpress account or a hotmail account or a facebook page, etc, then you can have a website + email on your own domain. And NO, it’s not going to cost you an arm and a butt cheek.
I bought my very own .TEL a few months back. My intent was to get a .MOBI – the reasoning being that I don’t really want to “mobilfy” my existing website. My personal website is pretty, well laid out and *BIG* (heh, my webpage is bigger than your webpage). Despite it being friggin awesome, it’s not too happy on a mobile device.
When doing the research, I found there are a number of restrictions on the .MOBI domain, which, if I’m not mistaken is probably the most restrictive of the TLD (top-level-domains). But when I stumbled on the dotTEL TLD and found out how you don’t need a web-host at all and it’s mobile friendly out of the box, well, lets just say that I *nearly* shat my pants.
Wait, wait — hold on. The domain name you buy with a .TEL extension requires no hosting? Yes. What’s more, is that it’s easy to set up, they have a wack of features and are constantly updating their service.
But what is it? I don't understand.
It’s like an online business card. Instead of handing someone a business card with all your info, send them to this page where they can view and interact with all your contact info. Store your phone number, fax number, facebook account, twitter information, ANYTHING! Somebody visits http://yourname.tel in their browser (PC/Mac/Phone/iPad/XBox/Wii) and they have all the details they need to hook up for a beer (business meeting or otherwise). I have a QR code on my business card so if I meet you, you scan it with your phone and a few swipes of the finger later, you’ve got all my details stored in your phone.
To the meat: Why a .TEL domain?
the meat: Why a .TEL domain?
* Low cost; $20/yr total. That’s less than $0.08 a day. Trust me, I used a calculator
* Easy; my grandmother could do it — no, really, that spry old bag has a .TEL domain
* Mobile; view or manage the site from a phone
* Expandable; use the same single domain for all your family members, or employees
* Sharable; links with social sites, creating a central “contact point” for you or your business
* Untapped; there are sooooo many .TEL domains still left, don’t miss out on your perfect vanity domain name!
* Monetize; use your Google Adsense account to display ads and make money
* Fast; get a professional looking website set up quickly and forget about it
* Convenient; a potential contact can download your details directly into their phone
* Customizable; change various settings to make it work the way you want, even add GMail for Domains to it!
* Safe; spam free, if you want it to be. You can choose to list in the .TEL directory, display all your information publicly or even hide certain information from public view unless the person requests to be a “friend of yours“
A case-study:
So, let us say your last name is Babbaganoosh. You have a big family run business, a butcher shop. You’ve been quoted $1,500 to have a vanity website and email address with some pictures of your shop and a customer order + contact page, etc. It’s just not in the budget in this economy.
So, cousin Vic says “I’ll bet you a porter-house I can make a website for the shop in 20min” – you take the bet, of course, because you want to see this joker sweat.
You set the timer and Vic pulls out his iPhone (of all things) to go to UseYour.Name and orders babbaganoosh.tel – after watching him fumble with his sausage-like fingers, you let him use the office PC and watch intently over his shoulder.
Some activation emails arrive and he confirms them and logs into the “control panel”. He creates pages for “butchershop.babbaganoosh.tel” and “pappa.babbaganoosh.tel”, “mamma.babbaganoosh.tel” and “cousinvic.babbaganoosh.tel”
He fills in the info for the “butchershop” page and finishes with 4min to spare. ”I want it cooked properly too.” he says at you, your mouth ajar. How did your Aunt Bella’s idiot son pull this off?! WTF? He put a little blurb at the top, picked a different template and even put a Google map of the store’s location on there.
Sold!
Sold!: Now what?
Good question. Start by getting your own vanity domain name. I’ll be posting all sorts of how-tos, videos and whatnot, so keep in touch (facebook, twitter, RSS, comment here, whatever). My customers love me, you will too. ;)
Source:
http://why.useyour.name/2010/06/08/why-dot-tel/
I bought my very own .TEL a few months back. My intent was to get a .MOBI – the reasoning being that I don’t really want to “mobilfy” my existing website. My personal website is pretty, well laid out and *BIG* (heh, my webpage is bigger than your webpage). Despite it being friggin awesome, it’s not too happy on a mobile device.
When doing the research, I found there are a number of restrictions on the .MOBI domain, which, if I’m not mistaken is probably the most restrictive of the TLD (top-level-domains). But when I stumbled on the dotTEL TLD and found out how you don’t need a web-host at all and it’s mobile friendly out of the box, well, lets just say that I *nearly* shat my pants.
Wait, wait — hold on. The domain name you buy with a .TEL extension requires no hosting? Yes. What’s more, is that it’s easy to set up, they have a wack of features and are constantly updating their service.
But what is it? I don't understand.
It’s like an online business card. Instead of handing someone a business card with all your info, send them to this page where they can view and interact with all your contact info. Store your phone number, fax number, facebook account, twitter information, ANYTHING! Somebody visits http://yourname.tel in their browser (PC/Mac/Phone/iPad/XBox/Wii) and they have all the details they need to hook up for a beer (business meeting or otherwise). I have a QR code on my business card so if I meet you, you scan it with your phone and a few swipes of the finger later, you’ve got all my details stored in your phone.
To the meat: Why a .TEL domain?
the meat: Why a .TEL domain?
* Low cost; $20/yr total. That’s less than $0.08 a day. Trust me, I used a calculator
* Easy; my grandmother could do it — no, really, that spry old bag has a .TEL domain
* Mobile; view or manage the site from a phone
* Expandable; use the same single domain for all your family members, or employees
* Sharable; links with social sites, creating a central “contact point” for you or your business
* Untapped; there are sooooo many .TEL domains still left, don’t miss out on your perfect vanity domain name!
* Monetize; use your Google Adsense account to display ads and make money
* Fast; get a professional looking website set up quickly and forget about it
* Convenient; a potential contact can download your details directly into their phone
* Customizable; change various settings to make it work the way you want, even add GMail for Domains to it!
* Safe; spam free, if you want it to be. You can choose to list in the .TEL directory, display all your information publicly or even hide certain information from public view unless the person requests to be a “friend of yours“
A case-study:
So, let us say your last name is Babbaganoosh. You have a big family run business, a butcher shop. You’ve been quoted $1,500 to have a vanity website and email address with some pictures of your shop and a customer order + contact page, etc. It’s just not in the budget in this economy.
So, cousin Vic says “I’ll bet you a porter-house I can make a website for the shop in 20min” – you take the bet, of course, because you want to see this joker sweat.
You set the timer and Vic pulls out his iPhone (of all things) to go to UseYour.Name and orders babbaganoosh.tel – after watching him fumble with his sausage-like fingers, you let him use the office PC and watch intently over his shoulder.
Some activation emails arrive and he confirms them and logs into the “control panel”. He creates pages for “butchershop.babbaganoosh.tel” and “pappa.babbaganoosh.tel”, “mamma.babbaganoosh.tel” and “cousinvic.babbaganoosh.tel”
He fills in the info for the “butchershop” page and finishes with 4min to spare. ”I want it cooked properly too.” he says at you, your mouth ajar. How did your Aunt Bella’s idiot son pull this off?! WTF? He put a little blurb at the top, picked a different template and even put a Google map of the store’s location on there.
Sold!
Sold!: Now what?
Good question. Start by getting your own vanity domain name. I’ll be posting all sorts of how-tos, videos and whatnot, so keep in touch (facebook, twitter, RSS, comment here, whatever). My customers love me, you will too. ;)
Source:
http://why.useyour.name/2010/06/08/why-dot-tel/
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