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 [...]
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 [...]
This weekend, December 2-4, thousands of developers, hackers and coders will be joining forces in 32 cities around the globe to participate in Random Hacks of Kindness 4. This is the third RHoK event we’ve partnered up with Geeks without Bounds to sponsor and help organize events in San Francisco, Portland and Milwaukee. The what: [...]
This weekend, December 2-4, thousands of developers, hackers and coders will be joining forces in 32 cities around the globe to participate in Random Hacks of Kindness 4. This is the third RHoK event we’ve partnered up with Geeks without Bounds to sponsor and help organize events in San Francisco, Portland and Milwaukee. The what: [...]
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… The list gets longer today with the addition of Pusher – a [...]
