Archive for December, 2011

Sending SMS to your Constant Contact list

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

One of the nice things about Tropo is that it does a lot of the heavy lifting for you, letting you add amazing features to existing products. One very popular contact manager is Constant Contact. Since your contacts must opt-in to this service, combining this with Tropo provides you a nice way to keep in touch with them beyond simple email.

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Node.JS Magic 8 Ball Voice App

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Remember the Magic 8 Ball game from yesteryear?

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Dial and SMS your APIs with Tropo

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

The number of APIs available are increasing by the day and so is the popularity of Node.JS, the server-side event-driven javascript framework. This got me thinking… How cool would it be to be able to call or sms an API with your phone using Node.JS?

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Voice Texting With Tropo Speech & SMS Technology

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

We all agree that texting while driving is very dangerous, right? Fred Wilson, VC and principal of Union Square Ventures thinks so too. He recently wrote a blog post that starts like this:

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Tropo Customer Spotlight: Babelverse

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Babelverse founders Mayel de Borniol and Josef Dunne were working out of theĀ Tropo HQ office in San Francisco when they received the call that they had been accepted to compete among 15 other startups in theĀ Le Web 2011 Startup Competition.

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WebPulp.TV Interviews Tropo

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Jose de Castro, our Chief Architect, was recently interviewed by Josh Owens from WebPulp.TV on the interworkings of Tropo’s Webscale cloud communications platform.

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Up in the Air with Tropo and ScraperWiki

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

ScraperWiki is a powerful cloud-based service that lets you scrape data from online documents and websites.

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Tropo Jambox Megaphone

Monday, December 19th, 2011

After rocking out to a little White Stripes’ Icky Thump, Chris Matthieu shows you how to build a megaphone using a Jawbone Jambox, an iPhone, and the Tropo Scripting API!

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Customer Spotlight: Zapier

Friday, December 16th, 2011

We are excited to feature Zapier on this week’s Tropo Customer Spotlight! Today I sat down with Wade Foster, one of the co-founders of Zapier, to discuss their business and learn more about how they are using Tropo for their Instant Messaging services. (more…)

Tropo Powers Apps for Communities Winners

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Yesterday, at the Andreessen Horowitz Offices in Silicon Valley, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced the winners of the Apps for Communities challenge.

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