Archive for the ‘Cool’ Category
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Continuing on our recent post about a clever phone-enabled coffee machine hack comes another ingenious hack from our friends at Developer Garden. (We announced our partnership with Deutsche Telekom’s Developer Garden giving developers full access to the Telekom Tropo API last year.) Flexing that well-known German ingenuity, these developers created a phone-enabled vending machine app. Yes, you can now get your 4pm gummy bear fix by simply talking to the vending machine. You no longer have to scrounge for change or ask your coworker to borrow another quarter, simply call up your vending machine and just ask nicely.
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Tags: Developer Garden, mashup
Posted in applications, Cool, mashups, Partners, Tropo, Video | No 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 »
Friday, December 9th, 2011
Ushahidi is a platform for crowdsourcing information. Members of the public submit reports that are geo-located and then put on a map. The platform is used in disaster relief, election monitoring and just about any other situation where people need to learn things from one another quickly and concisely. Out of the box, Ushahidi allows people to submit reports via the web, mobile applications, Twitter, Facebook with support for a few SMS APIs as well.
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Tags: GWOBorg, IM, PHP, SMS, Tropo, Ushahidi
Posted in Cool, free, IM, Location, mashups, Open Source, PHP, Samples, SMS, SourceCode, Tropo | 2 Comments »
Monday, December 5th, 2011
What a weekend! Tropo sponsored Random Hacks of Kindness events in 4 different cities. We’re still resting up from the craziness, but I wanted to do a quick post about the winning project in San Francisco.
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Tags: Geeks without Bounds, GWOBorg, RHoK, San francisco
Posted in Awesome, Cool, Events, SMS, Video | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
I recently found myself at a conference without WIFI and i wanted to write and deploy a new Tropo voice application to the cloud. Armed with my 3g iPad, this task was a snap! See for yourself…
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Tags: ipad, scriptingapi, Skype, Tropo
Posted in Awesome, Cool, Ruby, Screencasts, Skype, training, Tropo, Video | No Comments »
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) as-a-Service can be powered via Tropo and SIP using this simple open source code provided below. This service is perfect for adding speech recognition to your existing Asterisk, FreeSwitch, YATE, or enterprise app from the stone ages.
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Tags: asr, phono, service, sip, speech, speechrecognition, text to speech
Posted in Cool, Open Source, Ruby, SourceCode, Tropo | No Comments »
Friday, May 13th, 2011
We are always excited to see developers using Tropo to extend GoogleVoice functionality and features by adding things like SIP and Call Forwarding and Call-In enhancements. Terry Swanson (@FunnyBoy243) is one of these cool developers who wrote 2 of these extensions and opensourced them for others to share and contribute: (more…)
Tags: googlevoice, mashup, sip, Skype, Tropo
Posted in Awesome, Cool, free, mashups, Multi-channel, Open Source, PHP, Samples, Skype, SourceCode, Tropo | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Do you have a GoogleVoice phone number? Would you like to route it to your Tropo application?
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Tags: googlevoice, openvoice, phono, screencast, Tropo
Posted in Awesome, Cool, inum, Open Source, Ruby, Screencasts, Skype, SourceCode, Tropo, Video | No Comments »
