Tropo includes an “ask” method, which allows you to ask a question and wait for a response. On a voice call, the user is actually on the phone and typically responds quickly; with SMS, they might receive your text with the question but wait to respond until they have the free time. If your ask [...]
Lat fall, I attended CouchConf NYC and gave a presentation on using Tropo with CouchDB. It only recently occurred to me that I never did a proper screencast and blog post about my presentation, which struck me as a bit odd – I constantly get asked how to set up an SMS voting app with [...]
One of the nice things about Tropo is that it does a lot of the heavy lifting for you, letting you add amazing features to existing products. One very popular contact manager is Constant Contact. Since your contacts must opt-in to this service, combining this with Tropo provides you a nice way to keep in [...]
The number of APIs available are increasing by the day and so is the popularity of Node.JS, the server-side event-driven javascript framework. This got me thinking… How cool would it be to be able to call or sms an API with your phone using Node.JS? This is a pretty simple thing to do with Tropo [...]
We all agree that texting while driving is very dangerous, right? Fred Wilson, VC and principal of Union Square Ventures thinks so too. He recently wrote a blog post that starts like this: “As a parent of two young adult drivers and a third soon to hit the road, nothing scares me more than texting [...]
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 [...]
Here on the SMSified blog, we’ve provided lots of examples of how to use the SMSified API to quickly and easily send outbound text messages. If you review some of our previous posts, you’ll see lots of good examples and tutorials on using PHP, Ruby and Node.js to send outbound SMS messages. With all of [...]
As with any for-fun softball/baseball/kickball/handball league, the availability of players can vary widely from week to week. Life has a habit of interfering, especially if you have kids, so ensuring there’s enough players to field a full team can be a difficult process. Such was the case with the Voxeo softball team, but we’re just [...]
Here on the SMSified blog, we’ve provided lots of examples of how to use the SMSified API to quickly and easily send outbound text messages. If you review some of our previous posts, you’ll see lots of good examples and tutorials on using PHP, Ruby and Node.js to send outbound SMS messages. With all of [...]
As with any for-fun softball/baseball/kickball/handball league, the availability of players can vary widely from week to week. Life has a habit of interfering, especially if you have kids, so ensuring there’s enough players to field a full team can be a difficult process. Such was the case with the Voxeo softball team, but we’re just [...]
