Silicon Valley startup Ribbit wants to take on the Telcos.

"Users of the service can make calls to and from landlines, mobile phones, internet telephony software running on their PCs, desktop widgets, social networking applications, Flash-based phones and even web browsers.

Rather than create a dominant interface for all these potential access points, Ribbit has turned the keys over to more than 600 third-party developers, creating a developer site that offers help on linking applications and devices to the Ribbit network."

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