Monthly Archives: October 2010

Happy Halloween! Noel Portugal Builds Automatic Halloween Candy Dispenser Using Twilio

Happy Halloween everyone! In honor of everyone’s favorite spooky day of the year, we wanted to show of an incredible project made by Noel Portugal. He decided that handing out candy by hand wasn’t good enough and set out to … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on October 31, 2010 Tagged , ,

TextSlide Launches Chatroulette for Text Messaging

Congratulations to the team at TextSlide, who exited stealth mode today with an exclusive article on Mashable about the launch of their anonymous text messaging service. The service is powered by Twilio, and started out as a weekend project by … Continue reading →

Posted by Danielle Morrill on October 26, 2010 Tagged , , ,

Finalists Announced in Twilio + Union Square Ventures Developer Contest

Last week, we announced Asthmapolis as the winner of the Twilio & Union Square Ventures developer contest and promised we would reveal the top finalists.  Here are the five finalists, (in alphabetical order) and a little more about the apps … Continue reading →

Posted by Danielle Morrill on October 25, 2010 Tagged , ,

CueVox wins Twilio "Anything Goes, With a Twist!" Developer Contest

As one of our most popular use cases, we get a lot of contest entries for reminder services. However, we rarely get one written in Common Lisp. Mackram Raydan has changed that. Mackram is the founder of Cuevox, a simple … Continue reading →

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API Hackday Underway at Twilio HQ Today

We’ve banded together with other API companies to host the first ever API Hackday today.  We started out this morning with quick back-to-back presentations from all the API companies who organized and our generous sponsors, and then moved straight into hacking on … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on October 24, 2010 Tagged , , ,

New Twilio Developer Contest: Twilio + PayPalX (Ends October 31st)

For this week's contest we're partnering with PayPalX to find the best application that combines PayPal's powerful payments platform with Twilio's Voice and SMS APIs. More specifically, entries in this contest must use Twilio with PayPal's Adapative Payment API. PayPal … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on October 21, 2010 Tagged

Asthmapolis Wins Twilio + Union Square Ventures Contest

This is a guest post from Albert Wenger, who is a partner at Union Square Ventures and a member of the Twilio board.  USV is a New York based venture capital company, and they have partnered with Twilio to offer … Continue reading →

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NYC Twilio Meetup – Sponsored by Datalot

Join us in New York City at 7PM tonight (October 20, 2010) for the fourth NYC Twilio Meetup. We’re going to meet at Amity Hall. Food and drinks will be provided. You can RSVP on the Meetup Page. The Twilio … Continue reading →

Posted by John Britton on October 20, 2010 Tagged , ,

New Developer Contest: Twilio + PayPalX (Ends October 31)

For this week’s contest we’re partnering with PayPalX to find the best application that combines PayPal’s powerful payments platform with Twilio’s Voice and SMS APIs. More specifically, entries in this contest must use Twilio with PayPal’s Adapative Payment API. PayPal … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on October 19, 2010 Tagged , ,