Monthly Archives: July 2011

Tampa's First StartupWeekend A Huge Success

Over 100 attendees participated in the the first ever StartupWeekend Tampa this past weekend. Tampa has always been an entrepreneurial city so it was no surprise that interest in something like StartupWeekend would be so intense. Susie Steiner, Ryan Sullivan and … Continue reading →

Posted by Andrew Watson on July 12, 2011 Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

Business Owners: Reach Your Customers Instantly With Textingly

Textingly is a text message marketing service that helps small businesses send text messages to their customers via the web. Textingly handles message delivery on both outbound and inbound text messages, contact list management, and reporting. It is all opt-in … Continue reading →

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Twilio Now Accepts Credit Cards in 21 Countries

Have you wanted to use Twilio, but couldn’t because you don’t have a billing address in the United States or Canada?  Twilio already accepted credit cards in the United States and Canada, but we know you want to build powerful … Continue reading →

Posted by Danielle Morrill on July 11, 2011 Tagged , ,

New Developer Contest: Power Up Conferencing with Twilio

It’s easy to create simple conference calls using Twilio’s <Conference> verb. For this week’s developer contest, we’d like to see how you could take conferencing to the next level. For example, Bridg.me used Twilio to create “impossibly simple conference calling”—just … Continue reading →

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New Developer Contest: Power Up Conferencing with Twilio

It’s easy to create simple conference calls using Twilio’s <Conference> verb. For this week’s developer contest, we’d like to see how you could take conferencing to the next level. For example, Bridg.me used Twilio to create “impossibly simple conference calling”—just … Continue reading →

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How To Create a Simple Phone Menu Using Twilio Twimlets

Let’s create a simple phone menu to greet callers and forward the call to the right person using Twimlets, small web applications that implement voice functionality. Since Twimlets are stateless and all the required data is stored in the URL parameters, … Continue reading →

Posted by admin on July 8, 2011 Tagged , , ,

Upcoming Events: Dallas, Chicago, and Milwaukee

While this is pretty short notice, we have a trio of events that may be of interest. First, this weekend July 8-9, I am attending Dallas Drupal Days to talk on a pair of subjects. The first is the new … Continue reading →

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Chad Smith Wins our OpenVBX Contest With His Stripe Payments Plugin

Getting paid, to many it’s a forte; to others, it’s the essence of business—making things people want and then charging money for it. But as important as it is, handling payments has never been as easy as it should be. … Continue reading →

Posted by Rahim Sonawalla on July 6, 2011 Tagged , , ,

Chat With Your Customers Instantly With SnapEngage

SnapEngage is a live chat web service that allows business owners to add a live chat popup to their website so they can engage their customers immediately. Visitors can chat instantly with a representative without having to install any software … Continue reading →

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