Monthly Archives: March 2012

Women Innovate Mobile Kicks Off its First Week with New Startup Class

Four selected startups kicked off their first official week in one of the latest New York City accelerators, Women Innovate Mobile. Founded by Veronika Sonsev, Deborah Jackson and Kelly Hoey, WIM focuses on promoting mobile technology companies started by female entrepreneurs. … Continue reading →

Posted by Ladan Mahini on March 30, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Behind the Code: HackVAN

Last weekend Vancouver, BC played host to the HackVAN hackathon.  HackVan brought together developers, designers and create people from across Canada to spend eight hours coming up with some crazy ideas and getting them prototyped.  Twilio was one of many … Continue reading →

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hackNY Raises The Bar Again For Student Hackathons

Occupying New York University once more, hackNY students again raised the bar for the hackathon this weekend.  With the fifth installment of their long running companion event to their successful fellowship program, the joint NYU / Columbia venture hosted over … Continue reading →

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Trying To Save The World In A Weekend, Penn Students "Hack The Change"

The Philadelphia tech scene assembled late in the afternoon last Friday with a spectacular ambition – change the world in a single weekend.  Dubbing the event Hack The Change, University of Pennsylvania students from the Penn Society for International Development organized … Continue reading →

Posted by Rob Spectre on March 29, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Building a SXSW Party Hotline on Salesforce with Pervasive and Twilio

This guest post is by Chad Sakonchick, the Galaxy Marketing Manager for Pervasive.  He’s mildly obsessed with social activities (IRL), any kind of physical challenge, and autonomous drones.  You can keep up with his witty banter at @csakon or virtual … Continue reading →

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A Twilio-Powered Solution for Libraries: Tampa Bay Library Consortium Builds an SMS Reference Service

As part of our series on tech innovation in libraries, we’ll be focusing on Florida’s “Ask A Librarian” virtual reference desk service. The pioneering service turned to Twilio to power its SMS reference service throughout the Sunshine State. For Floridians, … Continue reading →

Posted by admin on March 28, 2012 Tagged , ,

Deaftel Makes Phone Conversations a Reality for the Deaf

The simple task of talking on your phone is not something we think of as challenging, but for the deaf it’s something they struggle with every day. Traditionally, for the deaf and hard of hearing, a relay operator paired with hardware is … Continue reading →

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A Hidden Gem: Fallback URLs

When you build an application with Twilio, connecting your app to your Twilio number is simply a matter of defining a couple of webhooks to the parts of your application that will be handling voice and SMS requests. Just like that, … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on March 27, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Reporting Security Vulnerabilities

Ensuring the security and integrity of the Twilio platform is critical to the service we provide our customers. We are committed to providing a secure product and appreciate help from the community in responsibly identifying ways for us improve Twilio. Last week … Continue reading →

Posted by Kevin Burke on March 26, 2012 Tagged ,