Monthly Archives: October 2010

SingSend Wins Twilio 'Play' Developer Contest

At Startup Weekend New York City Frank Denbow had an idea for a phone-based karaoke app. Over the weekend Frank built SingSend and won the award for ‘Spirit of the Event’. SingSend is a fun app that allows a caller … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on October 18, 2010 Tagged , ,

Customer Video: Michael Yap Combines Twilio & Joget

Michael Yap, a Twilio developer, created this video demo explaining how to combine Twilio and Joget. Joget is a business process tool, and you can read more about it on Michael’s blog. How did you hear about Twilio? I actually … Continue reading →

Posted by Danielle Morrill on October 14, 2010 Tagged , , , , , ,

WeAreSafeAndSound.com Connects People When Disaster Strikes

In 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston, Texas as a Category 2 hurricane, with Category 5 equivalent storm surge and extended winds of 120 miles from its eye. In the midst of this, Ladder Jumpers, LLC founder, Alvin W. … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on October 13, 2010 Tagged , , ,

John Britton Presenting OpenVBX virtual phone system at New York Tech Meetup

Tonight at New York Tech Meetup John Britton will demo OpenVBX, our open source virtual phone system, to an audience of roughly 800.  Some might remember John gave a live coding demo of the Twilio API back in August. Tonight’s … Continue reading →

Posted by Danielle Morrill on October 12, 2010 Tagged , , , ,

New Developer Contest: Anything Goes, With a Twist! (Ends 10/17)

This week's contest category is another 'Anything Goes', but this time with a twist. Build anything you want with Twilio and you can enter it into this week's contest. However, we spend a lot of time talking about Ruby, Python, … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on October 11, 2010 Tagged

New Twilio Developer Contest: Anything Goes, With a Twist! (Ends Sunday 10/17)

This week’s contest category is another ‘Anything Goes’, but this time with a twist. Build anything you want with Twilio and you can enter it into this week’s contest. However, we spend a lot of time talking about Ruby, Python, … Continue reading →

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Event Recap: Startup Weekend Summit & StartupCamp L.A.

I just got back from a week of travel; first to Kansas City for Startup Weekend organizer’s summit, and then to Los Angeles for Startup Camp 2 – Communications Edition.  We hit the road regularly to catch up with entrepreneurs, … Continue reading →

Posted by Danielle Morrill on October 7, 2010 Tagged , ,

Twilio and 99designs Join This Week's AppSumo Lean Startup Bundle

AppSumo is a site that sells bundles of products or services at greatly discounted prices. This week they’re running a Lean Startup bundle which gets you $1324 in merchandise for only $42. Take a look at all the killer items … Continue reading →

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Twilio is now a BizSpark Network Partner

We’re always looking for more ways to help out developers and startups so when Microsoft approached us about becoming a BizSpark network partner, we jumped at the opportunity. If you’re a Twilio customer using Microsoft technologies and you qualify for … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on October 5, 2010 Tagged , , ,