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by akalsey 16y ago
We can get most area codes in the US. If you don't see what you're looking for in the UI, send a message to support@tropo.com with a request -- we only manually provision numbers for production applications, so use one of the existing numbe
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by akalsey 16y ago
It's released now -- our new code always goes to the servers hosting free developer apps first, then a week or two later gets pushed to the production servers. We use the free developer servers as sort of a beta environment. Once code passe
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by akalsey 16y ago
No, Tropo uses Prism, Voxeo's enterprise grade SIP application server: http://www.voxeo.com/prism/ . Tropo's application layer is also open source and will run on any SIP servelet server.
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by akalsey 16y ago
SMS delivery from regular phone numbers is rate limited by the carriers. Tropo throttles you to 10 messages per minute to keep inside carrier guidelines. From a shortcode, there's no limit. And Tropo's connected directly to the SMS carriers
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by akalsey 16y ago
We're already priced below the bulk price of most other vendors. What sort of volume do you have? Feel free to drop me an email at akalsey@tropo.com
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by akalsey 16y ago
Well, you could it's just not easy. A GSM modem attached to the server would do the trick. Apache's free and hardware's cheap. Yet Rackspace still manages to run a huge web hosting business. For some people and some uses, building a web s
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by akalsey 16y ago
Fair enough. But if it takes 4 hours to figure out how to write these two lines of code, something's wrong. Documentation, complicated and confusing API, hard onramp to get started... Our goal is to get a developer who knows nothing about
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by akalsey 16y ago
It's stretched? That is very different from saying, as you did above, that "This quote is completely fabricated." (it also wasn't a quote). I'm not trying to start a flame war here. I like you (and the rest of Twilio) quite a bit. I adm
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by akalsey 16y ago
Grammar Server is a product they make for building and managing speech recognition grammars. It's pretty awesome, too, and any recognition grammars you create can be used with Tropo. NuBot is the IVR testing product http://www.nuecho.com/c
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by akalsey 16y ago
With Tropo, you can implement that in less than four minutes - it's two lines of code. Ruby: message "something important happened", {:to => '14155551212', :network => 'SMS'} And then one line of code to hit our session API over
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by akalsey 16y ago
NuGram makes a product designed for just that. You could certainly build something yourself using either a hosted service like Tropo or using Asterisk, but using something purpose built may work better. We use NuGram to test things. If you
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by akalsey 16y ago
Danielle said this during the API panel moderated by Thomas Howe at ITExpo West in October this year. When asked of the differences, she said that Twilio was focused on growing the market and making it easy for web devs instead of trying to
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by akalsey 16y ago
Jeff, His name's David Wilkie (not betraying any confidence - he lists his name in those email threads he posted). I don't know him personally, but he's been a regular in our IRC channel over the last couple of months. I believe he's a web
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by akalsey 16y ago
There's lots of do it yourself ways to do SMS. You can also grow all your own food, but grocery stores tend to be the more popular option. Companies choose to work with an SMS provider because they don't want to have to solve uptime, scale,
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by akalsey 16y ago
I'm Tropo's product manager. We've got quite a few companies using Tropo in significant capacity. In fact, because of our ability to scale and telephony expertise (Tropo's a product from Voxeo, the largest worldwide voice application host),
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by akalsey 16y ago
>> one end of the phone connection could be hosting in a web app via flash/silverlight. Have you seen Phono? http://phono.com/ - It does exactly what you're describing. Phone in the browser, talking to a SIP backend.
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by akalsey 16y ago
Or maybe you'd like to build the next Skype?
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by akalsey 16y ago
For now, Phono works with a Voxeo backend (either the enterprise stuff or Tropo, the cloud telephony API). The intent is to allow a developer to create their own backend platform that works with Phono. We'll release the spec for that once t
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by akalsey 16y ago
Any implementation right now would be pretty early. The live media capture parts of HTML5 aren't fully-speced out yet. http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/ With any luck, some browsers will form a defacto standard that solves the outstandin
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by akalsey 16y ago
Among other things, it doesn't yet define what codecs would be used in the audio capture. There's also a lot of comments in the draft that amount to "we'll figure out how this part would work later." http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/ is
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by akalsey 16y ago
Java's security model is meaning a HUGE Java applet to do this. And a custom plugin requires that you get people to install it. Works if you're Google (that's how they do Voice in Gmail), but probably not if you're Joe's Bait Shop wanting t
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Unapologetic Rules for Startup Success: Grumby Author Andy Kessler(blog.chrometa.com)
3 points by akalsey 16y ago|0 comments
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by akalsey 16y ago
We use a tiny Flash movie to capture the microphone, since Javascript can't do that part. We'll be adding an option for a Java applet later, and once HTML5 has microphone support, we'll get that in there, too.
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by akalsey 16y ago
Thanks! Let us know if you use Phono for anything. Would love to see what you come up with.
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by akalsey 16y ago
We fixed an issue this morning where sometimes the Flash microphone permission window wasn't showing up. Try it again and it should work for you.
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by akalsey 16y ago
Javascript can't capture the user's microphone directly. So Phono uses a tiny Flash or Java widget to do that part. The rest is all JS. We're heading an HTML 5 working group on voice in the browser, and once HTML5 has mic support, Phono wil
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by akalsey 16y ago
Are you calling a US number? The site says that free calls are only supported to US numbers.
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Phono - JQuery plugin to create a phone in your browser(phono.com)
60 points by akalsey 16y ago|30 comments
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AGItate: Asterisk AGI apps in the cloud(tropo.com)
2 points by akalsey 16y ago|0 comments
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by akalsey 16y ago
I'd love to hear what it is you don't like about Tropo's API. Also, what IM issues did you have? IMified's tech is what's driving the Tropo IM integration, and I'm one of the IMified founders, so I can probably help you with you with that.

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