Very cool! Are you coming to the Twilio Conference this week? If not, would love to have you in the audience. Ping me: jeff@twilio.com

Here's a take on it that uses Twilio Client to allow people to join from the browser as well as the phone http://www.twilio.com/gallery/projects/talkasaur-us I'll see if I can get Aaron in here to give out a few beta codes

Thanks John- I'll give out talkasaur.us codes to anybody who wants one. :) I made it for a twilio contest, and just didn't feel like personally funding the entire Internet's conference calls just yet. :) email me at aaronlerch at gmail for a code.

(btw it's currently browser only, but when it goes publicly available it'll be both)

Meh, screw it.

http://talkasaur.us/ access code: "rexy"

Have at it. :)

I saw that one, and it looks great. Definitely the best thing out there I could find. My two problems though:

1. It's in private beta. 2. Not sure I the dinosaur theme is something I would want outside clients to see, although I personally think they're hilarious.

Thanks! The current Dino theme was intentionally silly because it was for a contest. :)

I'm in the process of making it an actual product, including rebranding it. Still with a dinosaur theme for now, but more like http://docraptor.com in terms of professionalism. If people use it, I might rebranded it yet again based on feedback.

Aside from old cluttered websites, what's wrong with sites like that? Does the website really matter if all you use it for is to get the number to start a conference call, for free?

>Aside from old cluttered websites, what's wrong with sites like that? Does the website really matter if all you use it for is to get the number to start a conference call, for free?

Everything is wrong with them, they are a scam, it's called "traffic pumping" [1]. Google Voice and other VoIP providers will block calls to those numbers.

Free conference call services like freeconferencecall.com have local US numbers in high tariff rural areas, usually in Iowa (like the 712 area code). To you the call is "free" because you have Free Nationwide Long Distance. But your phone company has to pay ridiculous rates, as if it was a 900 number, like over $1/min. If you don't have free long distance, than you have to pay those rates.

The Local Exchange Carries in those rural areas have contracts with these scam companies, giving them a take of the money. Or the LECs run the scam businesses themselves.

Legitimate businesses and consumers are being ripped off. The legit phone companies are required by law to route your call there, and they are required to pay the ridiculous fees.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_pumping

How is this a scam? FreeConferenceCall.com isn't lying to anybody. It seems like it's taking advantage of a regulation to charge telecom companies rather than consumers for a free service.

With poor customer service, really anti-consumer behavior in Washington, all benefiting in part by government granted and supported monopolies, I have a hard time feeling sorry for large national telecom companies having to give some of their money to local carriers in Iowa, and the companies smart enough to partner up with them.

join.me is what I'm trying to get my company to replace webex with.

I like it, very straightforward. It is screen sharing though, which isn't quite what I was looking for.