It’s been a big week for .TEL. The domain is at an exciting stage with new enhancements, applications and compatible services now available to end users.
Here’s three big developments from the past couple days:
.TEL Search Engine – Jepaa Delivers Contact Information Fast
A .TEL search engine launched this week. It’s called Jepaa and it’s TEL specific, searching only .TEL sites. When somebody searches for contact information on Google they typically have to (A) sort through pages of search results that don’t relate to what they are looking for; or (B) dig through multiple pages to find contact information. Jepaa simplifies things by delivering you contact information in the form of .TEL sites. Jepaa’s other cool features include mobile compatibility, support of multiple languages and the ability to provide results that take both keywords and locations into consideration. Another nice-to-have: it’s compatible with Adsense.
Read more about Jepaa. Try Jepaa out for yourself .
.TEL Blackberry App available for Download
Telnic announced yesterday that the final release of its free BlackBerry(TM) plug-in is available for download. The application enables BlackBerry users to do the following things:
• Directly lookup a .TEL domain inside the address book, including private information from friends
• Search for a .TEL domain inside the address book
• Add any .TEL domain as a new contact or associate it with an existing contact
• Send ‘friending’ requests and accept or decline them depending on your TelFriends status
• Quickly change your .TEL profile to make sure your contacts reach you the way you want
Navigating by BlackBerry, the app is available at http://telnic.org/community-applications.html or http://bb.apps.telnic.tel
My.tel – .TEL iPhone App Now Available
And to complete the trifecta, just today Telnic announced the availability of My.tel . The free, open source iPhone application allows .TEL owners with iPhones to manage .TEL domains without having to log on to a computer. The app makes it easy to do the following :
• Publish a location through an embedded map linked with the iPhone’s GPS
• Update their status using profiles depending on how they want to be contacted at that time
• Add new, remove, hide or show items of contact information
• Manage, add or remove folders and profiles which group contact information together
• Manage privacy settings for friends and colleagues
• Add or remove keywords that help people searching for .TEL owners contact information.
My.tel can be downloaded for free from the App Store or via the iPhone usingthe App Store application.
Email also launched for .TEL names this week, at least at one registrar. Read our previous post for more information.
And it you’re in the market for a .TEL name, there are still lot’s of great ones available. Click here to search for yours.
jepaa is a neat search engine, but unfortunately not very good results.
According to Telnic :
Question to Telnic:
“Can you disclose how ‘John Smith’ will show in a telpages.com search, that is:
Will JohnSmith.tel result first, that is before John-Smith.tel ?”
Answer from Telnic:
“In the case of domains, the standard (result) is the hyphen (first).
You do not want the parser to figure out on its own that
johnnysmith.tel is in fact:
Johnny Smith
and not:
John Nysmith
Help the parser as much as you can. (Johnny-Smith.tel)
Henri
henri.tel”
jepaa does not even index hyphen domains, and they are first match !
Oh well, back to the drawing board !
Good point. I hope the folks behind Jepaa will continue to improve things as feedback rolls in. It’s still early days afterall.
I did a search for cancel.te on Jepaa since that domain is well known and it came up with good results. I also tried a few others and noticed many weren’t even indexed yet so jepaa still has some work to do.