SPOTLIGHT: A Phweet conspiracy?

Twitter users can now VoIP directly to their contacts via broadband using a new service called Phweet. Chronic bloggers Andy Abramson and Jeff Pulver tossed up posts for the new service within 24 hours.

Pulver, a big lover of social media these days, embraces Phweet as a natural extension of Twitter.

Abramson pulled a bigger rabbit out of his hat, setting up an in-flight call with a journalist onboard an American Airlines Aircell demo flight. Andy says Phweet is written in Adobe Flash, so unless Aircell wants to filter all Flash traffic - a very ugly prospect given how embedded the software is around the web - Phweet and other Flash voice services will be an open hole to conduct in-flight voice calls.

For more:
- Jeff Pulver's little Phweet call
- Andy Abramson establishes an in-flight VoIP call with Phweet.

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