We’re starting work on an exciting project soon, but there’s an unknown element I haven’t figured out yet.

We’re building a Flash web application which plays a movie. As the movie ends a character in the movie dials a telephone. At that point the user’s phone rings. Surprise! When they answer they are played a pre-recorded message. Since the users have to log in to the application we know who they are.

The challenge is how to make out outgoing call from a website? I’ve come across jaduka.com, but their service only makes US and Canadian calls. Our site needs to call phones in the Netherlands.

Anyone have any suggestions as to how to do this??

I came across an interesting post on Chad Fowler’s blog where he uses the (decidedly unscientific) Google Trends to analyse supply/demand of technologies.

What was very interesting was this chart showing Ruby on Rails interest by region. South Africa is no 2! WTF?! If there’s so much interest here, why does no-one answer my job ads? Hell, our last ad actually advertised for PHP developers looking to learn Rails - we’ll train them! That’s how much we want Rails developers.

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