Why Talkshoe?
People ask why we use the Talkshoe platform rather than using asterisk.
- Bandwidth. Scalable from 1 to many hundreds of calls, the bandwidth doesn't depend on anyone's resources, which would be asking a lot.
- Doing good.
Talkshoe pays a few pennies for each downloadand we invest 100% of this with Kiva.org, a third world microlending organization. Talkathon was started for this purpose. - Automatic recording and archiving. Talkshoe allows the conference to be easily recorded and archived for easy download or streaming via a simple web page.
- Automatic RSS feed generation. Self evident.
- Part of an established community. Talkshoe has a growing community of podcast listeners, many of them in the technology field.
- Live stream. During the live conference, anyone can listen anonymously via the web page player with nothing to download and no registration.
- Single client for audio and text chat. This allows listening and asking questions or making comments without a telephone. Ideally, one can use both the text chat and the phone in order to both talk and see who is in the conference.
- One phone number for all shows. There are many interesting talks going on at Talkshoe, all reachable through a single phone number and distinguished by a numerical id.
