Posts Tagged ‘PHP’

Up in the Air with Tropo and ScraperWiki

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

ScraperWiki is a powerful cloud-based service that lets you scrape data from online documents and websites.

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Tropo SMS Wolfram Alpha Mashup

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Tim Strimple joined us at the LA Holiday Hackathon to get in on the competition of building Tropo applications for prizes and won a $50 Tropo Production credit for his Tropo SMS and Wolfram Alpha mashup!

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Tropo + Ushahidi = Awesome

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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The People’s Skype for the #Occupy Movement

Monday, December 5th, 2011

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!

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LA .NET Hackathon 2011

Monday, December 5th, 2011

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).

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Customer Spotlight: flockNote

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

We are excited to feature flockNote on this week’s Tropo Customer Spotlight! Today I sat down with Matthew Warner, the Founder of flockNote, and Jeff Geerling, their CTO, to discuss their business and learn more about how they are using Tropo for their Voice and SMS services. (more…)

Keeping it Realtime with Tropo and Pusher

Friday, November 18th, 2011

We’ve done lots of examples on this blog of building realtime apps with Tropo.

Tropo is so conducive to building realtime apps with telephone components that you can pair it with almost any technology stack and add some extra hotness. Node.js, Redis, XMPP

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My Voice is My Password. Verify Me.

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

I remember watching the movie Sneakers (probably 20 times) and would always rewind the part where they could unlock doors with their voice.

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Speech Enabling Open311

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

Since SpeechTEK is this week, I thought it was a good time to update a post I did several months ago on using speech recognition to capture a street address.

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Tropo Speaks your Language – 24 in all

Friday, July 1st, 2011

Tropo’s international support is one of the features people love best about us. Numbers in 41 countries, SMS delivery worldwide, and text to speech and speech recognition in 9 languages.

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