Rebtel is the rockin’ most service I’ve used this week/month/year. I think. I can’t say enough good things about it. And this morning they even gave me an hour of free calling to India (the country I call most often with that service) for filling out a little “are you satisfied” survey. Who can say no, eh? But I think I’ve spent about… 20€ with Rebtel and talked about the same amount to India as July. In July my international charges with Elisa exceeded 500€. Whoops (you’d think they’d warn ya).
Now that Liigapörssi is pretty much out there, I’m not staying up late-at-night programming my arse off (for IS), but instead delivering on other projects, including but not limited to projects relating to the web-services of my own companies. I finally fixed a CSS bug at CNM Ltd, got Seven Poles website up, made some changes and fixes to Hostenz, Seqeuro (and the payment systems) and Zamekrasy, got a website up for Ville (in Finnish, I won’t link to the dev version, but it will go here), started on the Fushigi and new Mochan sites for Anna… and now I just have to continue on this road to finish everything. Next in line is Fingeekit (I’m actually going to change the service completely from 24/7 computer service – boring – to something else similar but not the same), not to mention of course SoftwareAL (which will actually get a new, better fitting name, because the software is no-longer strictly about education).
So what else was I going to talk about? Oh yes, Fortumo. Forumo is a premium SMS service provider to the baltics and, oddly enough, China. In Finland (and I imagine the rest of Scandinavia, in particular) these things where you send an SMS for some kind of information or an entry in to a prize draw are rather popular. I’m planning to capitalize on that – right now it’s a matter of 1. making sure my offering is, in fact, appropriate and 2. integrating it in such a way that it actually works for me instead of… not.
Liigapörssi makes use of this kind of thing to purchase “trades” (effectively a trade allows you to buy and sell the players on your imaginary hockey team and shift them around and such), and I managed to assist in connecting Drupal (the core of all my web development projects for the last couple of years) to Steam (formerly FlyerOne) even though the documentation was out-dated and there were a few other issues – but it seems to work now so thats cool. For those that are interested, the other payment option I worked heavily with on this is Verkkomaksut. I wonder if I could integrate those in to…. hmmm… ideas forming.
Anyway, this blag starts to get convoluted and boring so I’ll stop now, since I really am starting to run out of ideas to talk about… and I think no-one wants me to start on my personal life, do they? I thought not.
‘Till next time.
Masa
