Over on his blog, mashup king Thomas Howe introduces a new Mobile Mail List application for use with Tropo.com. As Thomas describes it:
It allows retail facing businesses to quickly and easily let their customers sign up for customer care programs using their cell phone, then uses text messaging to send coupons back to the customers. It’s free and open source, and it runs today on Tropo.
Thomas indicates he’ll be doing a series of screencasts, the first two of which are out already. He has also made the source code available over on Github and included an architecture diagram to show how the pieces all fit together.
The first screencast introduces the Mobile Mail List application:
The second screencast, embedded in his second blog post dives into the voice app used on Tropo.com:
If you would like to try out Thomas’ app yourself, you can download the Mobile Mail List software and then use it with your Tropo.com account (which is free if you haven’t created one yet) as well as your own web server.
It’s cool to see and we’re looking forward to seeing the other screencasts Thomas creates!
