iotum’s Free Conference Call Facebook App now sports recording

Canadian start up iotum, who got some serious funding in late November, has a nifty app for Facebook that lets you make free conference calls.  Of course what’s a sweet conference call without being able to record it?  Okay a meeting, but if you can record a call, then it can become a podcast or interview.  As Alec Saunders writes, this is exactly what they have in mind:

We hope that it will become the foundation of a new kind of podcasting more like talk radio than today’s podcasts.  Last night a few friends and I recorded an inaugural call to test this idea out.  Jim Courtney, Ken Camp, Sheryl Breuker, Howard Thaw, Randall Howard and I engaged in a wide ranging discussion on topics ranging from Skype to mobile handsets.  Following the call, I grabbed the audio file, and made some quick edits.  Next I installed the Podpress plug-in for Wordpress, and then uploaded the file and created this post.  It was dead simple. Source: Free Conference Calls… now with recordings — Alec Saunders .LOG

Given my general curmudgeonliness for Facebook, you might expect me to poo-poo this app.  On the contrary, I think a useful app that doesn’t involve zombies, free drinks, or hatching eggs is refreshing.  I will be doing a BlogTalkRadio show, next week I think, but I will certainly give this app a try (I’ve already re-installed it on my profile).