Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Co-operative Republic of Guyana DID phone numbers and telco trivia

http://www.didx.net has several thousand telco and voip company wholesale members with a goal to buy and sell DID and DDI phone numbers. The most recent request is for Co-operative Republic of Guyana DID phone numbers. Requesting wireless and wired telcos and voip companies with this to contact care@didx.net with Co-operative Republic of Guyana in the subject line. This is wholesale level only. See http://www.didx.net/interop to understand the terms and interop testing steps to get an instant interconnect with thousands of other service providers for origination (DID/DDI).

BTW, for the trivia buffs...
Telephone Systems in Guyana
Telephones: 110,120 main telephone lines (2005)
Telephones mobile cellular: 281,400 (2005)
General Assessment: fair system for long-distance service
Domestic: microwave radio relay network for trunk lines; fixed-line teledensity is about 15 per 100 persons; many areas still lack fixed-line telephone services; mobile-cellular teledensity reached 37 per 100 persons in 2005
International: country code - 592; tropospheric scatter to Trinidad; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)


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Friday, December 11, 2009

I'm Yours in the Middle of VoIP Discussion



I was in the middle of exchanging tips on different DIDX members' voip applications and services with some small businesses this morning, when someone I follow on Twitter posted this flick of a boy enjoying the heck of the song. Lyrics of "I'm Yours" to sing along and later play it from I Like:

Well you done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks
Now I'm trying to get back
Before the cool done run out
I'll be giving it my bestest
And nothing's going to stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it's again my turn to win some or learn some

I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love
Listen to the music of the moment babay sing with me
I love peace for melody
And It's our God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love loved

So I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm sure
There's no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I'm yours

Scooch on over closer dear
And i will nibble your ear

I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and laughed
I guess what I'm be saying is there ain't no better reason
To rid yourself of vanity and just go with the seasons
It's what we aim to do
Our name is our virtue

But I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm sure

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find that the sky is yours
Please don't, please don't, please don't
There's no need to complicate
Cause our time is short
This oh this this is out fate, I'm yours!

I am this little guy's fan. He reminds me of my son Scott Slay when he was learning to play the mandolin around age 4 or 5 and singing La Bamba at the top of his little lungs.
From Family



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This Ex-English Teacher Loves Google Translate

Ahsan, my colleague, asked me how to pronounce a certain name. I won't list that name, but I want to show you how much fun http://translate.google.com is to learn to pronounce words and labels in so many languages. It may not always be right or the choice that you would make, but it's pretty close to being accurate.

Example, try entering with English to English:

DIDx - It pronounced it "did."
DIDxchange - It pronounced it almost perfectly.
Lombard - Wow! Perfect.
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - Not bad!!!
antidisestablimentarianism - I found my new English teacher.
Cayona - Perfect! (Steve Cayona is happy!)

Google Translate does a decent job at translating from one language to another from among dozens. It also pronounces words for you. You can also "contribute a translation" which I did the other day with the word "baytaar" which means "wireless" in Hindi and Urdu. Am I right on that?

Google doesn't list Urdu yet, but it does list Hindi.

The other day I saw where someone was asking for a program that will teach English in 30 days. My answer?
1. Make friends with people who speak the language you want to learn. Make it reciprocal where they get something from you also.
2. Watch videos and listen to audio files in the language like on Youtube, Geekspeak, FreshAir, or DIDX telephony-related podcasts.
3. Use online tools like Google Translate.

It's a small world. It's a big world. We're all in this together. My latest personal/professional project: I am gathering information about IP communications-related companies who participate in helping any nonprofit organizations without financial compensation. Contact me on Twitter or Facebook.

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Want to Start Programming with Your Kids?

I queried a few people like DIDX members, friends from ITEXPO and PTC, and will be glad to add more answers as I get them but also, feel free to add your comments to this blog post.

From Stanislav Shalunov:
Try http://scratch.mit.edu for preschoolers through elementary school. Teenagers should probably use normal programming environments with web output: Flash for games, Rails or PHP for web apps, etc. Hackety Hack is aimed at teenagers. Numerous beginner languages are around, Python is the best.

From Allan Alderman, the geekiest friend I have in Pensacola, FL... we cannot talk enough about the cool apps and products we try:
Not quite sure I was the guy that sent you that, but here is a site in that vein that I like

http://www.kidsprogramminglanguage.com
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MIT's Personas | Metropath (ologies) about YOU


The world is full of people who have so much to offer you and me. I see the Internet and especially the new confidence, inspired by social online media, as the push to you and me to take a chance and connect with each other. I met Julie Fogg of ActivePort (a company who installs and maintains Nortel turn-key converged telephone systems for businesss) via Twitter. We're going to publish a podcast interview about business and giving to those in need soon to post to DIDX podcasts.

Julie and I are good about encouraging each other to try to new online "tools" that might help us in our life or professional goals. She mentioned that our podcast should be done in Second Life. (Help! ;-)

Today she showed me MIT's Personas | Metropath (ologies) site. Find out what people are finding out about you, too. I'd be interested in the results, too, about you.

Here is what I learned about me Suzanne Bowen (not the aerobics instructor or the real estate agent), from most reference to me:

1. media, social, committees, news

2. SUZANNE BOWEN IS THE CEO OF THE COMPANY (AND OUT OF HER INTEREST IN THE PAKISTANI TELECOMMUNICATION MARKET WHICH, AS A BY-PRODUCT, HAS GIVEN HIM ...

2. SUZANNE BOWEN IS AN EXPERT IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP, SOCIAL MEDIA, BRANDING, AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA OF IP COMMUNICATIONS ...

3. CEO SUZANNE BOWEN IS TAKING APPOINTMENTS FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, BOTH TO ASSIST TRADITIONAL TELCOS TO COMPETE IN A WEB 2 ...

4. ASIAN WOMAN ENTREPRENEUR POWER CONFERENCE HELD IN KUALA LUMPUR THAT SUZANNE BOWEN WAS A PANELIST SPEAKER FOR ON THE TOPIC OF "BRANDING WITH ...

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