VoIP & Gadget News – Social ENUM Platform Enables Facebook & Twitter Phone Calls

ENUM resolves phone numbers into a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) or IP addresses. It’s basically “DNS” for phone numbers, mapping a person’s phone number to the person’s IP address on the network for routing the call over IP over a carrier’s network. ENUM offered the promise of a single point of contact for all communication devices, that has largely been unfulfilled. Now, with the exponential rise of social media networks, people are starting to self-identify themselves with their Facebook username or Twitter account ID more than their phone number. Today, social media users want the ability to communicate with someone via their social media ID, such as their Facebook account ID or Twitter ID instead of using antiquated phone numbers.

Well, imagine if you could integrate an ENUM database with social networks, such as Facebook or Twitter, that enables you to register your various phone numbers and devices into this ENUM database. Then using whichever social media authentication you chose to login (Facebook Connect, Twitter oAuth) you can control how, when, and whom can contact you. This would allow you to hide your personal phone numbers while still allowing people to click-to-call you over the Web using social networks. Further, with social media security controls, you can make it so that only people in your Facebook friends list are able to call you.

That’s the goal of Telesocial, a company still in stealth-mode, but expected to launch in beta next month. Telesocial offers an API platform that leverages social media networks and ENUM to enable widespread name resolution to user’s devices which will enhance communications and offer a value-add to operators. Telesocial converts social media usernames into phone numbers using what they call the “Social Enum” and transmits the calls to the appropriate networks.

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