ScraperWiki is a powerful cloud-based service that lets you scrape data from online documents and websites. When you write a scraper – a script to pull information from a web resource and then parse out the bits you want – it will execute inside the ScraperWiki environment. You can store the data that is scraped [...]
Tim Panton, one of the Senior Developers on our Phono project at Voxeo Labs, has prepared a how-to video to demonstrate building a mobile voice conferencing application on iOS. In this video, Tim uses PhonoSDK 0.3, PhonoGap 1.1, and XCode. If you are not familiar with our Phono Mobile SDK, it is an extension of [...]
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! Here’s the Ruby script used in the video: say "Welcome to the Tropo megaphone app! Please turn on and pair your Jam box now." while [...]
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. What is Zapier? Zapier allows you to “zap your apps!” You can [...]
Yesterday, at the Andreessen Horowitz Offices in Silicon Valley, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced the winners of the Apps for Communities challenge. The challenge, a several months-long call to developers to build apps that connect people to their communities, culminated with the submission of 75 innovative applications. The idea behind the challenge, which was sponsored [...]
Earlier this year, at the Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon in Philadelphia, one team of hacker-activists (Katey Metzroth, Danny Chang and Tim Wisniewski) decided to address the challenge of helping low income Philadelphians find fresh produce in their communities. The app they developed – PhillySNAP – makes use of the SMSified API to let people [...]
I6NET and Avanzada7 are business partners since 2008 providing many value added services and products for Asterisk’s platforms. Avanzada7′s online store is leading VoIP and Open Source Telephony products distribution in Spain, now offers VXI* software to deliver advanced IVR solutions for Asterisk powered by the VoiceXML open standard. The online store is expected to [...]
Phono Version 0.3 now supports Java Applets in addition to Flash! Our Java Applet has even lower latency on VoIP calls which is perfect for enterprise call centers or controlled environments that want HD audio / Wideband call performance with very low latency measured in milliseconds. Note: For most consumer-facing sites, we still recommend using Flash [...]
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! You can ask the application virtually any question via SMS using the following phone number 661-206-2681 and it responds [...]
PhonoSDK version 0.1 was released in October 2010 at the jQuery Conference in Boston. In March of 2011, PhonoSDK version 0.2 was released with support for better echo suppression so that headphones were no longer necessary. In July 2011 we released Phono Mobile allowing web developers to build and deploy native iOS and Android apps [...]
