Convergence of web and voice

The convergence of web and voice is almost here. Couple of developments in the recent weeks have convinced me of the same.

1. Tringme - Offers widgets that one can place on the websites and blogs and incase any visitor needs to interact with them, the visitor can just click on the widget and within no time would be talking to the concerned person. A pretty simple example would be customer support. Tringme tries to reach the person on cellphone, gtalk etc. This service also lets the users leave a voice mail.
2. Lypp - Lypp provides VoIP services over the existing IM service. The interesting thing that caught my eye from lypp was their Ruby On Rails plugin which helps the RoR developers to easily integrate the voice services into the websites.

Geektorrent

GeekTorrent is a new torrent tracker site for programming, technical and gaming related screencasts and videos. As per the site, it has been written purely in django and its good to see newer web frameworks such as django and RoR slowly penetrating the world which was dominated by php.

Right now there are not many videos in the programming and technology sections which I am keen about. But I hope to see more in the coming days...

Preview release of Rails 2.0

The preview release of Rails 2.0 is out. This is a precursor to the public release. DHH has a detailed post about the same which includes instructions on how to upgrade to this release as well as changes in 2.0.

ROR book available for free download

Patrick Lenz's book - "Build your own Ruby on Rails web applications" is available for free download for the next 60 days. Guys interested in RoR can check out the same...