Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com - Digital Media Engineering ]

10/11/05 Asterisk - Developing thoughts…

I’ve had two ideas for the implementation of my Asterisk software PBX for my final year project. Two ideas which I think may be valuable in terms of a ‘new implementation’ as I can’t find any current versions of them and would hope that these are both ‘new’ in the software side! The great thing about the blogosphere as James Corbett previously pointed out to me is you can post these ideas on your blog and chances are, that answer will come to you. The power of this community concept was demonstrated to me on my Geared Up Boeing 777 post just yesterday.

The ideas are:

Radio Show (ByteDJ?)
Interface for radio chat-show hosts with a single screen interface for managing callers. Once the numbers & running order of the callers has been established by the producer a ‘Queue & Callback’ feature will allow the host to press a single ‘next caller’ button which will display the producers notes on screen and connect the call. The call conferencing would be done by Asterisk, but I was considering the concept of conferencing a ‘conference’ output as an input to another ‘conference’ which would only have 3 members, the producer, host & ‘all callers conferenced in one stream’. By outputting the first conference on the airwaves, this would allow the producer to talk to the host as required without interfering in callers conversation.

Real-time Competition
Inspired by Nokia’s competitions over the years that have involved text messaging. Players would sign-up online, providing their phone number (and maybe a Paypal entry fee?). Over the course of the next 10 days, players would get a call to their phone at “any time of the day”, the call would be a pre-recorded question that had multichoice answers. Based on the “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” concept, if you either miss a call, or answer incorrectly you lose a life. Users would have the option to ‘phone-a-friend’ while on the call which Asterisk would do giving a 30 second chance to talk to them before reconnecting. Stats of the leader-board would be published online ‘live’ for players to follow. This would continue until only one player is left. Adding a third dimension it may operate by opening up a ‘conference call’ with another player ‘head-to-head’ and the player to answer the question first (correct keystroke) will go through to the next round.

Tags: Final Year Project, Ideas

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10/11/05 Robin Blandford

Wow, this blog is generating interest, within 2 minutes of pressing post it had been read 13 times. I’m Impressed!

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