We’re putting the finishing touches on the Tropo Developer Challenge, a way you can show off your Tropo applications and have the chance to win some fun stuff throughout the year. Got an app that you’ve been working on? Polish it up and get it ready for entry into the Developer Challenge. Rules and details will be announced shortly.
Another of the multi-modal features we added to Tropo, is the ability to capture the first text a user send via SMS or Instant Message. Previously, when a user would send a message to an SMS/IM application you had written, you had no way to capture that first message. Instead you would have to send a prompt/ask back to the user to start receiving input, having lost that first message.
A feature we recently added to Tropo is the ability to capture free-form text from a user when using one of the messaging channels, such as SMS or Instant Messaging. Previously it was required that you prompt the user for input based on a grammar:
This is a guest post by Mark Silverberg (@skram on Twitter). Mark acted as a guinea pig for the Tropo Web API and Ruby library in the weeks leading up to its release last week. He wrote a sample app mashing up Twitter and voice and provided this overview and code walk through.
Tropo exists to make it easier for a developer to quickly and easily build voice, SMS, and IM applications using the languages and tools you already know. And we’re now making it even easier.
Tropo customer AwayFind has a great writeup on GigaOm’s Web Worker Daily. The WWD post was also picked up by the New York Times, Salon, and others.
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