Monthly Archives: June 2011

Make Restaurant Reservations via SMS with Reservely

Brad Miller and Jevin Maltais used the Twilio API at HackOTT a couple months ago and won the event. The app was called Reservely and allowed you to make a restaurant reservation online, then the app would call the restaurant … Continue reading →

Posted by admin on June 17, 2011 Tagged , , , ,

Text Me My Schedule Helps Students Make It to Class

This is a guest post by Mike Jahn, a 21 year old Information Systems/Web Development college student with a passion for music, rollerblading, photography, technology and the Internet who built Text Me My Schedule using Twilio. Mike tried to solve … Continue reading →

Posted by admin on June 16, 2011 Tagged , , ,

Seattle Startup Weekend Recap

I made my way to Amazon HQ for the first time this past weekend for Seattle’s fifth Startup Weekend, and I was pleased to find both fine weather and friendly folks. I met not only the bulk of the team … Continue reading →

Posted by Rahim Sonawalla on June 15, 2011 Tagged , , , ,

Predictive Dialing on Demand with Impact Dialing

Impact Dialing is a pay-as-you-go on-demand auto dialer built on Twilio. Their software is used by call centers, pollsters, and political campaigns to improve the efficiency of their outbound calling operations and to send out pre-recorded messages.  Customers can pay-per-agent … Continue reading →

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Introducing Keith Casey, Austin by way of PHP

Hi, I’m Keith Casey and I’m the newest Developer Evangelist at Twilio. The first 90% of my job is to get good tools into the hands of good developers so they can build great things. I’ve been a PHPer for … Continue reading →

Posted by Keith Casey on June 14, 2011 Tagged , ,

Canappi Helps Developers Build Converged Mobile Apps

Two weeks ago, Canappi launched the 1.0 version of their mobile app development platform, and they’re rolling out connections to leading APIs. We’re honored to announce that Twilio has been selected as the first among these API connections to be … Continue reading →

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Search Quora Questions with SMS

About a month ago, Shreyes Seshasai from the popular online question and answer service Quora announced (on Quora, of course) that they are now supporting the ability for users to search questions via SMS.  To use Quora’s SMS-enabled service, simply go … Continue reading →

Posted by Danielle Morrill on June 13, 2011 Tagged , , , , ,

HotPads Uses Twilio to Reduce Fraud in Real Estate Transactions

HotPads is a map-based housing search engine. Apartments and houses are listed for rent and for sale, along with foreclosures, vacation rentals and hotels.  Users can search by the most important feature of real estate: location, and provides a range … Continue reading →

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Introducing Twilio Applications: An Easier Way to Manage Phone Numbers

Today we’re excited to announce a new feature for Twilio developers: the ability to create and assign a Twilio Application to a phone number instead of a URL. When you log into Twilio.com you’ll see a new tab in your … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on June 9, 2011 Tagged , , ,