FaceBridge Research, Inc.
 



FaceBridge is...

Metered IM/AIM
Metered VoIP/Skype

Charge for text, audio, video chat.

Meter access to yourself, your employees, your band, whatever.

No software to download!




Downloads:

FaceBridge Presentation (PDF)
Supporting Data (PDF)
  What we add to IM and VoIP systems

We've developed technology that allows any user on an IM or VoIP network to charge for their time communicating with one or many other users on the same network.

Anyone can sell their live or recorded presence via text, audio, or video to 1 other person or to 1,000 other people simultaneously.

All users continue to use their familiar IM/VoIP software, such as AOL's instant-messaging client for Windows, Apple's iChat AIM client for Mac, or Yahoo's IM client - just to name a few.

The user experience, and the networks' ability to reach each user for advertising and other purposes, is not changed at all.

All that changes is that users can charge to be reached, and all transaction and payment details are handled in real-time, instantly, when communications are started.

We started this in 2003 as a part-time endeavor. We filed a patent on various aspects of our idea, and we started work on an implementation for Mac/AIM users.


Technology Demo

We have a demo site we can show you. It functions over AIM and works with Mac computers. A Windows-compatible version is coming in 2006.
  Dec 2005 - July 2006

Near the end of 2005, we made contact with some interesting people at IM and VoIP networks. We also made some interesting contacts for possible angel and VC capital in 2006.

Then we got busy doing market research for one of the VCs, while running our regular businesses.

This brings us to July, 2006.

The VC research is done, and we're starting to get the first truly "natural" inquiries.

People are finding us because they need what we have, and Google lets them find us. This is truly a first in our history.

Three companies have come to us in the past 30 days, looking for "metered IM" or "metered VoiP". This never happened before, so we take this as a very good sign that the world is starting to "get it".


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