Attention TechCrunch: flash VOIP phones have existed since at least 1999. I distinctly remember using Dialpad to make free domestic phone calls through my browser (Dialpad was subsequently made non-free and acquired by Yahoo). Now it’s almost a decade later and we’re getting excited about the same stupid technology and same stupid business model. No doubt they have an API and a Facebook application, though, so we can pretend it’s totally different.
God, the internet is stupid. If you’re not reading uncov, you’d really better start.
Not so fast. Dialpad used a Java applet, not Flash.
My apologies. So the key difference, then, is that Linux users *were* able to use Dialpad prior to August 2007.