Monthly Archives: November 2009

Twilio + Heroku Ruby Challenge

DukeNow by Michael Ansel Do you ever walk around campus thinking, "I'm so hungry, but what's open right now"? Michael Ansel cleverly solved this problem for the Duke University campus with his winning application. Using instant Ruby platform Heroku and … Continue reading →

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Coordinating People

Simple Hotline by John Sheehan With Simple Hotline, John Sheehan can alert the members of his softball league when inclement weather hits and a game is rained out. As John says, “Twilio’s pay-as-you-go model works perfectly for this league. They … Continue reading →

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Fun & Games

Simolio by Steve Castle Studies say that brain teaser games help us maintain memory and mental agility, so what better than playing the popular 1980s game Simon via your telephone with Steve Castle's Simolio? Simolio is a memory game where … Continue reading →

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Open Source It!

Twilio + Nagios by Alex Polvi Want to make sure your on-call team gets up and out of bed when a Nagios alarm is triggered? Alex pairs Twilio-powered phone alerts with Nagios systems infrastructure monitoring to generate robot-voice alerts to … Continue reading →

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Speech-to-Text Transcription

 CallTheMilk by Brian Levine Do you find yourself thinking of things to add to your to-do list at the most inconvenient times and places? Do you wish you could capture new to-do items as you think of them, on the … Continue reading →

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Outbound Notifications & Alerts

PagerDuty by Andrew, Alex, and Baskar at Synchronicity Labs PagerDuty is a tool to help manage on-call staff and set alarms to escalate tickets through the appropriate channels. Forward alerts from your existing monitoring systems (Nagios, RightScale, etc.) to Pager … Continue reading →

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Outbound Notifications & Alerts

 RemindMe by Kurtis Welch RemindMe is a personal productivity tool that enables callers to create and receive notifications over the phone with voice. When you call in, the service uses LavaRock to interpret the date and time you want to … Continue reading →

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Killer Marketing Tools

Twilleetio by Trevor Smith The category for Week #2 was "Killer Marketing Tools", and Trevor killed it with this tool for phoning in short audio segments and sharing them with Twitter. To try out Twilleetio, dial (206) 455-6221, and use … Continue reading →

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Improving Customer Service

RepeaterStore by Brendan Gill RepeaterStore is a leading e-commerce storefront focused on selling wireless repeaters; those little devices that make your iPhone work inside your apartment (where you get no coverage). Using Twilio, RepeaterStore now enables customers to pick up … Continue reading →

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