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…)
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.
Tropo is partnering with the LA .NET Developers Group and Outlook Amusements to sponsor this weekend’s LA (Burbank) Hackathon at Outlook Amusements on Saturday, December 10, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM (PT).
We finally got a chance to catch up with the guys (@_chaselee and @alexschiff) behind the popular new notes service called FetchNotes!
Has this ever happened to you?
You’re feeling a bit randy so you decide to head over to your local coworking facility or hacker dojo to get some work done. Although it’s a bit of an odd hour, the caffeine is pumping in your veins and you’re raring to code up the next big thing.
Unfortunately, when you get to your coworking site your realize that the door is locked, and you don’t know who is inside to call or send a message to so they may come and let you in. Bummer!
Are you building real-time gaming applications that use the phone (Voice or DTMF touch-tone) and require immediate response to your application? Ever wondered how to get input from a caller at the speed of light – rather than traditional AJAX API calls?
Without taking sides in the climate debate, I think most people would agree that the world would be a better place if our roads and highways were less crowded.
Dan York recently posted a really nice example of how to combine Phono – the new hotness in cloud telephony that turns any web browser into a phone – and good old fashioned enterprise-grade CCXML.
We’ve talked a bit about how text communications are on the rise, replacing a lot of the voice self service that companies have traditionally offered. Text doesn’t always replace voice, however. With platforms that can work over both voice and text, it’s possible for text to augment the voice channel.
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