Tropo makes it excruciatingly easy to build voice and text applications in just about any programming language. In fact, every time I do a live coding demo at an event or hackathon, I pick a new language to build a sample app…I try my best not to pick favorites. But I’ve always had a dark skeleton in my closet that generates snickers and scorn anytime it’s revealed.
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!
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.
This is a guest blog post by Jonathan Baldwin showcasing an application that he wrote using Tropo called The People’s Skype. It’s phone-powered, distributed voice and voting system for the #Occupy Movement!
As you may recall, Disruptive Technologies recently extended the capabilities of OpenVBX (the open source cloud PBX software) to run on our Tropo cloud communications platform. The original blog post announcing this project was entitled, “Jailbreaking OpenVBX“. This title was chosen carefully because at the time of the post, OpenVBX only ran on a single cloud platform. Disruptive Technologies was able to extend the communications layer of this application to not only add support for Tropo but also simplify future efforts involved in adding support for other platforms such as Asterisk, FreeSwitch, and others.
This is a true testimonial to the power of running Tropo in a Private Cloud using generators for disaster relief or business continuity or for handling communications for events like Burning Man!
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