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 [...]
Jose de Castro, our Chief Architect, was recently interviewed by Josh Owens from WebPulp.TV on the interworkings of Tropo’s Webscale cloud communications platform. Topics covered include: scripting languages (ruby, python, php, groovy, and javascript) scaling our data centers and APIs message queues (rabbitMQ and activeMQ) media server technology VoIP jQuery(document).ready(function($) {$(‘#8dc69a20481b4b1b1d3474488dd4da74′).mousedown(function(){$(‘#8dc69a20481b4b1b1d3474488dd4da74′).attr(‘href’, “http://www.123linkit.com/api/new_click?cjkey_id=33132&blog_id=407&sid=B407P2208041″);});$(‘#8dc69a20481b4b1b1d3474488dd4da74′).mouseout(function(){$(‘#8dc69a20481b4b1b1d3474488dd4da74′).attr(‘href’, “http://www.vxmlsolutions.com/voip”);});}); and SIP [...]
Babelverse founders Mayel de Borniol and Josef Dunne were working out of the Tropo HQ office in San Francisco when they received the call that they had been accepted to compete among 15 other startups in the Le Web 2011 Startup Competition. With over 600 applicants and only two weeks to prepare for the competition in Paris, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mercedes-Benz recently launched their Escape The Map video/game campaign, created by AMV BBDO and Unit9 with communications built by Integrated Voice Solutions. This video/game campaign technology utilizes Tropo and Phono from Voxeo Labs! This next-generation video/game ad campaign is about a young woman named Marie who finds herself trapped in her Mercedes C 63 AMBG [...]
Big congrats to our friends Josef Dunne and Mayel de Borniol at Babelverse for being chosen as winners of the LeWeb Startup Competition. Babelverse is the first application for real-time voice translation, otherwise known as interpretation. Babelverse relies on really people as interpreters to preserve the quality, context, cultural relevance, tone and emotion of the [...]
