Furthermore the old video was really boring. It was a mistake to produce a 16 minutes long video and pretend to get your attention in this time of if-it’s-longer-than-a-minute-I’m-not-going-to-see-it (Youtube mantra?).

So I produced a new video showing the new UI and I cut the important sections of old video. Now I have 4 independent videos in the form of small pills of 5 minutes each. Shorter. Easier to see. Faster to get to the point. Better.

I lost the introduction of the old video though, so if you are new and you don’t know what I’m speaking of, please look the first part of the original video.

These are the videos (Still in spanish):

1. The improved user interface (4:50 minutes) New video
2. Explanation of how the system works (1 minute)
   
3. Demo with softphones,landline and cell phone (4:18 minutes)
   
4. Potential commercial and virality (5 minutes)

What had the application improved this last week?

1. Better architecture. I split the web frontend (the web application you can see on facebook) completely of the VoIP backend (the call manager) on two different servers running on different locations. Now the application is ready to scale.
2. Way better sound quality. AMG (a local network service provider) lent me a provisional SIP account, more than enough to improve 1000% call’s reliability and sound quality. I need more accounts for reliability reasons, though, is someone interested?
3. Completely new user interface. Polished, a lot more integrated on facebook, making use of facebook widgets. A long way to go, though, but a lot better than the pre-release version you could saw on video last week. Now it’s time for user usability reporting and web2.0 effects
4. Multilingual. The application works, so what is the reason to reduce their commercial potential focusing only on the Spanish market? No reason. As facebook didn’t provide yet the multilingual capabilities I designed the application to understand Spanish and English, and Vasque, French and German translations are coming soon. Catalian anyone?
5. Developer corner. I’m the only one developer but I like to work on a complete environment. Nowadays the application had a subversion repository, a wiki with my last thoughts and documentation and a bug reporting software for me and betatesters (some techie friends)
6. Bugfixing. Lots and lots of bugs had been resolved, and lots of new ones are being fixed every single day.

I continue to have ideas to improve the functionality or reliability of the application. I’m thinking in several cool improvements. I don’t know if the application will be ready to enter an open beta state on time (maybe by the middle of next week?) but for sure at the beginning it will have less functionality than other VoIP applications.

Don’t complain! It’s working, it’s a complex system with lots of components and has been programmed on a garage