Just had dinner with DJ Danny Dan the beatmann, one of the first Hip Hop DJs from the bronx.
He started cutting in 1975 after having seen Kool Herc do it.

What i noticed most during our conversation was the repetitive use of the phrase "Back in the old days"....

Interesting to see party-people living in the past like that.

tajapa was the logical progression from the development of cellcast.

Now that we knew how to handle VOIP calls and had a partner to do the interconnection business with the big carriers, we decided we wanted a least cost routing system.

The name tajapa was designed to be typeable on a mobile device, an idea almost antiquated by now ;-}.

On a simple website the user could, after registration, enter phone-numbers and tajapa would provide her with local phonenumbers to call. So everyone could call a cheap local number and then be connected to otherwise expensive numbers elsewhere in the world.

The service was used in private beta for about 6 months before we closed it due to overwhelming competition through

http://jahjah.com
http://rebtel.com
http://grandcentral.com