Archive for January, 2011

Command Line SMS

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Ever have the desire to send an SMS message from the command line?  We’ll with bash functions its quite simple, and I’ll show you how!

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$40,000 in prizes up for grabs. Win with your source code.

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Binpress is a new startup that’s built a marketplace for code. Sell your code, buy code from others. Whether you have a content management system, a plugin for WordPress or Drupal, or a great new UI widget built with jQuery, Binpress helps you market and sell your code. They take care of the license agreements, the ecommerce, and all the hassles associated with selling software.

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Pitching to Win at Philly Startup Weekend

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

At Startup Weekend, making a pitch is a core part of the event.

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Tropo Powers PennApps Mobile Winner

Friday, January 28th, 2011

The recent PennApps Mobile competition, held at the University of Pennsylvania on January 14th through the 16th, brought together teams of students to work on the next generation of mobile applications.

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Simple tips for better text to speech

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Are you looking for a way for your text to speech to sound more natural? Here’s a couple of quick tips.

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Philadelphia Startup Drinkup

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Tropo will be on hand at Startup Weekend Philadelphia, taking place this weekend in Hamilton Hall at the University of The Arts in Center City.

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Three Free tickets for StartupCamp this weekend (and 25% off code for everyone else)

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

If you’re in San Jose, Miami, or Los Angeles this weekend, we invite you to join us at StartupCamp and learn how to launch. We’re giving away one ticket for each city. Follow us on Twitter and tweet “Hey @tropo, send me to StartupCamp LA. http://bit.ly/fDV09t” (or Miami, or Silicon Valley) and on Wednesday morning we’ll randomly choose one winner from each city.

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Control Your Tropo Scripts with External Events

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

A few weeks back, Adam Kalsey introduced an exciting new piece of functionality on the Tropo platform – the ability to control a Tropo script by injecting events into a running session.

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Join Tropo at MagicRuby 11 Orlando Feb 4-5

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Ruby Developers take note:  Tropo is sponsoring  MagicRuby 11!   MagicRuby is a free Ruby conference produced by Jeremy McAnally taking place February 4th and 5th at the Contemporary Resort in Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

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Build Node.js apps for Tropo that use voice, SMS, IM and Twitter and host them at NodeFu

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

NodeFu-1.jpgHave you been itching to try out Node.JS for a real-time communication app? Perhaps a voice application? Or a SMS or IM agent? Or a Twitter-bot? Did you read about our Node.js library for the Tropo Web API released back in October and think “That would be a cool way to learn Node.js!” But have been put off by not having a server on the Internet where you could run your Node.JS apps? (more…)