Monthly Archives: August 2007

Nice ad, too bad you’re not correct

I just recieved this over my e-mail from Mira and Ola here at Rebtel.
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Sorry to be a bit of a besserwisser, since I must admit that Telefonica made some wonderful ads. But I doubt they’re correct – they don’t have the “the lowest call rates from Turkey to Sweden”, nor “from Japan to Scotland”. We’ll be happy to allow you to make your call for the cost of a local one.

Still great ads – just for the wrong company!

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Amazing Ad – Telefonica

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Rebtel launches user development of “Reb Me”

I hope it hasn’t been possible to miss the launch of the Reb Me application by Rebtel. It’s got quite a bit of attention like here, here and here. Well, now we’re getting ready to get the next version of the application in the works – but what do we want to add to it? We decided to involve the users – so now everyone can join in the development!

The group is called like the app “Reb me”:

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Reb me

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Rebtel full of 30-somethings on Facebook!

Me and Björn had a meeting today to introudce Facebook and our new Reb me application to the whole company. It’s great to have that much attention obviously, but the funny thing is that right after the meeting I stumbled on this article from madcomments. I guess that some of “our” 30-somethings might recognize themselves! 🙂

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Facebook – Chapter ‘30-something’
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I thought my life would only flash before my eyes when I was facing certain death. Who knew that …

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How much information do you share?

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Funny Business – Social networking and identity theft …
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I’m as bad as anyone else for responding to obvious scam e-mail’s, just because I’m interested in seeing how these folks operate. However, a new study out shows that a lot of people out there are giving out way too much information, for whatever the reason … check it out: BOSTON, August 14 /CN…

I tend to share A LOT of information about myself. I don’t know if it could get me in trouble, but I feel that if I live in a country (Sweden) that would gladly publish a lot of information about me (such as passport photos, addresses, credit ratings, etc.) I shouldn’t be too worried about what I publish on the internet.

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Facebook source code leak – Rebtel blogs!

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Facebook Source Code Leaked
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We just received a tip that the source code for the Facebook main index page has been leaked and published on a blog called Facebook Secrets. There are at least two possible ways that the source code got out – the first is that a Facebook developer has sent it out, or the more likely option that …

A couple of days ago the some of Facebook’s source code was leaked. Of course, this is a big story since Facebook has been decisively a closed community when it comes to opening itself to the outside world.

I’ve been writing about these walled gardens and how they’re doomed to cause reactions previously – I think this is just the first to come of “let’s open facebook” activities.

Of course we’re all very attuned to Facebook news here at Rebtel now, after a couple of months of intensive online presence by me and Björn and now when we’ve launched our application.

Rebtel people have started blogging about this – check out more by Alex.

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Rebtel app first review!

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Get Discount International Calls on Facebook – The Unofficial Facebook Blog
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A cool phone service, Rebtel, has launched their official Facebook application. The app allows you to contact your international friends and family for the price of a local call. While this is pretty cool in theory, it doesn’t frequently work. I signed up for Rebtel late last year to try and call…


 So, we recieved our first review of the app even before we’ve actually started publishing it a lot – we’ve just tried to make a sneak peak to our friends etc.

Even though Nick O’Neil’s experiences with Rebtel (from Israel – notoriously a hard country when it comes to fees) haven’t been entirely positive. Last year I must admit the service wasn’t that good to a lot of areas – but it’s got a lot better over the last 6 months.

I hope Nick anyway tried out and liked the app itself, hopefully this review will get us a lot of great feedback to it.

For mself – I’ve been using the app intensely now for a couple of days and I enjoy the slickness in just clicking to get a number to someone.

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Nudgemii – Rebtel does better!

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nudgemii – Facebook Application Reviews and Community Ratings
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Looking at one failed way of trying to “create virality” in an application by forcing the user to add it without giving any functionality on beforehand. The nudgemii application has quite a nice idea (being able to send mini-messages to a user’s cellphone) but the way they publish it on the user’s page before their friends have installed the app is really not that great.

Check it out to learn about some bad examples! We have been sneak starting our application “Reb me” now on Facebook, we’ll be happy to have some feedback 🙂

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Instant messaging over phone – too complicated?

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Fring Now Supports ICQ for Integrated Mobile Chat
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That means you can now get Skype, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Twitter and ICQ on fring, enabling you to chat with IM users and mobile phone users. The free, downloadable mobile phone application lets you make VoIP calls over mobile data networks or a wi-fi connection, roaming between GPRS, 3G and…

I still find instant messaging over the phone too cumbersome. It works perfectly fine when it’s one on one communication but when it comes to context switching it’s just never as practical.

If anyone cracks a great idea on how to manage switching between convos on your cellphone in a slick way – please let me know!

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Maxroam?

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Roam4free V2 at Roam4free
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This has been a far slower process than we expected but is now two-three weeks from launch. I don’t want to give away too much yet but we are changing the name to reflect the global emphasis of the new product and yes there will be data, inclusive SMS global packages, add your own DID’S (numbers)…

Pat Phelan of Roam4Free have been working on a new updated service helping all us unhappy consumers who are spending too much money on roaming. They seem soon ready to launch and I’m looking forward to trying out this. You’re going to have the possibility of having several different numbers connected to the card – which can be useful to get the cheapest rates possible. I would get one of these and then connect it to my Rebtel account. Then people could call me wherever I am (using local phone numbers in their countries) and I would use UK or French numbers to call them.

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