Archive for December, 2011
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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Tags: constant contact, Python, SMS, third-party tools
Posted in Tropo | 2 Comments »
Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Remember the Magic 8 Ball game from yesteryear?
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Tags: Game, JavaScript, magic 8 ball, node.js, nodester, webapi
Posted in Awesome, node.js, Open Source, Tropo, Video, Web API | 1 Comment »
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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Tags: API, JavaScript, node.js, nodester, SMS, voice
Posted in Awesome, JavaScript, Multi-channel, node.js, Screencasts, SMS, SourceCode, Tropo | No Comments »
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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Tags: fred wilson, Ruby, scripting, SMS, Tropo, voice texting
Posted in Awesome, Open Source, Ruby, SMS, Tropo, Video | No Comments »
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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Tags: babelverse, Cristina Moe, Cristina Moe Salanova, Japan Earthquake, Josef Dunne, Le Web 2011, Mayel de Borniol, San francisco, Start-Up Chile, Tropo
Posted in Tropo | 2 Comments »
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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Tags: asr, datacenters, dns, infrastructure, loopingrage, message queue, sip, Tropo, tts, voip, webpulp
Posted in Awesome, Cool, Tropo, Video | No Comments »
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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Tags: Hackathon, iphone, jambox, megaphone, scripting
Posted in Audio, Awesome, Hackathon, Ruby, Screencasts, SourceCode, Tropo | No Comments »
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…)
Tags: aim, API, GTalk, IM, MSN, screencast, spotlight, yahoo, Zapier
Posted in IM, Multi-channel, Python, Screencasts, SMS, Tropo, Twitter | 2 Comments »