TalkShoe-Community Calling

What is the TalkShoe-Community Calling Application?

Tired of gchatting? Still using AIM to stay in contact with your friends?  Well maybe you should join the bandwagon that is internet calling.  How can you do that, you ask?  It’s easy, add the TalkShoe application and then join in on the fun.

After installing the application you will be asked input your phone number or you can go onto TalkShoe’s website and create an account.  After that, it’s smooth sailing.  Call up other facebook friends or talkshoe users.  Listen to the auditory equivalent of blog, which I find pretty cool.

The application is reminiscent of those old talk lines, which I got in trouble for using once when I was in grade school.  There’s something simply amusing, yet a bit voyeuristic in listening in on random community phone calls…especially when it’s just two people talking.

TalkShoe is supposedly compatible with regular telephones, cells phones, Skype and VoIP.  I fiddled around with my cell phone and was going to test drive VoIP but couldn’t find my headset.  I had no problems, except that it’s important to remember that when using services that charge (like cellphones) that TalkShoe isn’t free.  I had a blast and it was nice way to talk to some friends that I haven’t seen in awhile.

Pros

• create your own community so you and all your friends can chat
• save your phone calls
• run live blog shows (or listen to them)

Cons

• there was a little big of lag when listening through an internet browser and bit of static, but this is probably VoIPs fault and the speakers talking to close to the microphone