Have you ever wanted to give out a single phone number that in turn dials multiple phone numbers? And whichever phone answers first speaks to the caller? I had just this case recently when I wanted a phone number I could start putting on Voxeo news releases that would ring my multiple phones and also [...]
Have you ever wanted to give out a single phone number that in turn dials multiple phone numbers? And whichever phone answers first speaks to the caller? I had just this case recently when I wanted a phone number I could start putting on Voxeo news releases that would ring my multiple phones and also [...]
Find here a small example about how to implement a VoiceXML callback feature for your IVR service. VXI* won’t pikup the call of the caller, a ringback tone is playing before handup. Once the call is hangup, the platform callback the caller (caller ID or session.connection.remote.uri). A callback service is a very good idea to [...]
Binpress is a new startup that’s built a marketplace for code. Sell your code, buy code from others. Whether you have a content management system, a plugin for WordPress or Drupal, or a great new UI widget built with jQuery, Binpress helps you market and sell your code. They take care of the license agreements, [...]
If you’re in San Jose, Miami, or Los Angeles this weekend, we invite you to join us at StartupCamp and learn how to launch. We’re giving away one ticket for each city. Follow us on Twitter and tweet “Hey @tropo, send me to StartupCamp LA. http://bit.ly/fDV09t” (or Miami, or Silicon Valley) and on Wednesday morning [...]
Have you seen one of these codes before? They’re called QR Codes and can be used on mobile phones to direct your browser to a specific web page or even display more information (4,000 characters) about a product or event. They can also be used to dial phone numbers and send SMS messages too! Some [...]
Did you miss our Developer Jam Session yesterday, Serving the Social Customer: Scaling Your Support For Twitter, Facebook and More, where I spoke about building applications for social channels such as Twitter? If so, a recording of the webinar and the slides I used are now available from: http://blogs.voxeo.com/jamsessions/2010/11/ Additionally, all the source code for [...]
If you listened to yesterday’s Developer Jam Session, a good part of it discussed building Twitter apps on top of Tropo (slides are available). I’ve made the source code available from our Github account at: https://github.com/tropo/tropo-twitter-samples You are welcome to copy/paste that code into your own Tropo account and start building Twitter apps! (and Tropo [...]
Flickr credit: dpstyles You know all those “contest” shows on TV where viewers can text in their vote for one of the contestants? Or have you seen signs or websites for services where you can text in some word or phrase to a number (like the image to the right)? Or have you used Twitter [...]
