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Like many companies out there, we have been continuing to experiment with using a Facebook “Page” as another way to engage in conversations with customers, developers, users, etc. A challenge, though, is that the URL to the Voxeo page on Facebook doesn’t exactly roll of your tongue:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Voxeo/31673279702

Now, Facebook has started to experiment with offering “vanity URLs” (something like “http://www.facebook.com/Voxeo”) but so far such URLs seem to be very limited to only special partners of Facebook.

So since there seems to be no way for us to simplify the Facebook.com URL, we just made our own:

http://www.voxeo.com/facebook

So if you are a Facebook user, please do feel free to check out our page. (And hey, why not “Become a Fan”?) Over the weeks and months ahead we will be continuing to experiment more with using it as a communication and conversation tool.

P.S. And to that end, as well, if you know of examples of Facebook Pages you have found work really well, please do let us know. I’m always curious to see what others are doing.

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Are you are Facebook user? Would you like to stay up-to-date on what we’re doing here at Voxeo? If so, please consider joining our new Facebook page for Voxeo as a “fan”. If you visit the page, you’ll see information about upcoming events, photos from recent events and other information that we add from time to time. In the upper right menu there will be a link to “Join as a Fan”.

As a “fan” of Voxeo, you’ll also be able to receive any occasional updates we may send out about new services, new products or such things as new Facebook apps which use our platform. We won’t spam you… to be honest we’re still exploring how exactly we’ll use the page. We just know that as more of us use Facebook, it’s something we want to experiment with. If you’d like to join us in the grand experiment, we’d love to have you as a fan. (Thanks!)

And if you are already a fan of other pages within Facebook, we’d love to hear from you about what you have found most useful from the various pages around. What kind of information would you like us to provide? How can we make it the best possible communication experience?

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Have you checked out the Party Line application for Facebook that I wrote about a few weeks back?

Well, the folks at Equals have spent some time working on the application and listening to the feedback from users. They’ve made some changes to it and also clarified some of the usage terms. Here are the major changes:

• Removed the initial advertisement that people being called out had to listen to when they were put into a call. Callers now just get dropped immediately into the conference bridge so that you can start talking! Note that the person initiating the call still hears a brief ad while the service is connecting the other members of the call.

• Clarified in their FAQ that calls are at least for the initial rollout limited to a maximum of 15 minutes.

The team there at Equals is continuing to look at ways to improve the application and are definitely looking for feedback as well. If you haven’t checked it out, we encourage you to read our previous post and then simply get started using the Party Line application inside of Facebook.

We’d also note that Equals CEO Ajay Madhok recently gave an interview to The Social Times which has now been released as a podcast if you would like to know more about the company and what they are doing.

We’re pleased to see an application using our platform to bring voice inside of Facebook – and we look forward to seeing what they come up with next!

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