Archive for the ‘mashups’ Category
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
I’m leaving in about 30 minutes to head to Austin, TX – the site of LoneStar Ruby Conf 2011 – and boy am I excited. What am I so excited about? For one, I get to check out all the great talks, especially Ben Klang’s talk on Ruby & Adhearsion! I’m also excited to mingle with awesome Rubyists and to give away some really cool stuff, like a Parrot AR Drone! Yeah, that’s right, Tropo is holding a contest for most innovative Tropo app (Phono and SMSified apps will also be accepted, as fellow Voxeo Labs APIs) and will be giving away the AR Drone on the last day to the winner!
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Tags: Conferences, contest, Ruby, Tropo
Posted in Awesome, Location, mashups, Ruby, 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 6th, 2011
Ham radio or amateur radio communications has been around since the early 1900s. Ham radio technology has kept pace with traditional communications and may even be the only technology that allows people to communicate in natural disasters. Ham radio operators can communicate over very far distances using HF (high frequencies) as well as through satellites via AMSAT and even using VoIP over the Internet using EchoLink, IRLP, or D-STAR!
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Tags: asr, callsigns, hamradio, mashups, speech, tts
Posted in Audio, Awesome, Cool, free, mashups, Multi-channel, Open Source, Ruby, Samples, Screencasts, Skype, SMS, SourceCode, Tropo, Video | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
Congratulations are in order for our friend Ted Gilchrist for his new Tropo-powered application making ProgrammableWeb’s Mashup of the Day! (more…)
Tags: geo, Google, Latitude, mashup, mobile, programmableweb, Tropo, wikipedia
Posted in Cool, Location, mashups, Tropo | No Comments »
Saturday, December 25th, 2010
This Christmas, the open government data elves have been busy.
They’ve been building useful applications with data sets from municipal governments, open source software and multi-channel communication platforms like Tropo.
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Tags: couchdb, geocouch, opengov, PHP, Ruby
Posted in mashups, Multi-channel, Open Source, PHP, Ruby, Screencasts | No Comments »
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Interactive applications require low-latency, just like phone calls, in order to make them real-time and natural. While REST drives much of the APIs on the web today, sometimes it just adds too much overhead and therefore introduces latency. In steps WebSockets, a part of the HTML5 standard. WebSockets provide a persistent bi-directional connection between your users and yours services. Now, with Tropo, you may write real-time applications that provide snappy interactions to drive games, interactive billboards and just about any other interactive application that requires a great user experience.
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Tags: adhearsion, asterisk, blocjam, bosh, communications, eventmachine, html5, mutek, real-time, Ruby, Tropo, websockets, xmpp
Posted in mashups, Ruby, Samples, Screencasts, Tropo, Video | 5 Comments »
