Archive for July, 2010

Announcing the GnomeDex10 Open Government Hackathon

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Are you on Facebook? If so, you can join the Tropo conversation there…

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

If you are on Facebook, you can now stay up-to-date on what is happening with Tropo by “Liking” our page at: (more…)

Come meet Tropo at an upcoming event

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Tropo’s going to be at quite a few events over the next few weeks. Come by and say hello.

  • Sacramento Ruby, July 15 — Adam Kalsey talks about jRuby and how Tropo uses it.
  • ClueCon, Aug 3-5, Chicago, IL — Jason Goecke talks about open source cloud telephony and Adam Kalsey will talk voice user interface usability.
  • DrupalCamp LA, Aug 7-8, Irvine, CA — Adam Kalsey talks about Drupal as an application development framework.
  • AdhearsionConf, Aug 14-15, San Francisco, CA — Learn about this open source phone development framework.
  • 140 Character Conference, Aug 19, San Francisco, CA — Johny Diggz in an interactive demonstration of collective consciousness.
  • Gnomedex, Aug 19-21, Seattle, WA — We’ve got some interesting things up our sleeve. More soon.
  • Lone Star Ruby, Aug 26-28, Austin, TX — Jason Goecke on how we built Tropo and Adam Kalsey talks about avoiding lock in from cloud services.

Get a text message when someone calls your app

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

If you have a Tropo app and you want to get a notification every time someone calls it, you can add a single line of code somewhere in your application (right after answer() for instance) that will send you a text message telling you who called and which app they called you from.

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SF Telephony Videos

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Couldn’t make it to last week’s SF Telephony meetup? The videos from each talk have been posted online, including a ten minute overview of how we built Tropo.

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Tropo talks at Cluecon

Monday, July 5th, 2010

ClueconWe’ll have a group from Tropo at ClueCon August 3-5 in Chicago. Got questions about Moho, Adhearsion, or Tropo? Talk to the people who built them.

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Beyond the Browser talk

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Last month I gave a talk at the London Web Meetup about how web developers can get applications out of the browser and start communicating in real time with voice, SMS, and IM.

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