Monthly Archives: April 2012

Connecting all with VoIP Drupal and Twilio

This post comes to us via Leo Burd, PhD. Leo serves as a researcher for MIT’s Center for Civic Media where he is working to solve issues around digital divide, social engagement, and civic empowerment. To reach that goal, he began exploring and building … Continue reading →

Posted by Keith Casey on April 23, 2012 Tagged , , , , ,

Cloud Communications and The Future of Marketing In The Post-PC World

Note: This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. If you are a marketer who has spent the last 10 years mastering the art of capturing and converting customers on the desktop web, the rapid rise of smartphones and the iPad might make … Continue reading →

Posted by Dan Kaplan on April 20, 2012 Tagged ,

Get Started with Twilio SMS: Receiving Incoming Text Messages Screencast

The Twilio Quickstart Tutorials are a great place to get started and learn the basics of our cloud communication platform, but I have always found it helpful to not only be able to read about the tools I’m using but … Continue reading →

Posted by Jonathan Gottfried on Tagged , ,

A Picture Caption Game with Twilio and PubNub

Developer and DOer Alex Swan built this picture caption game using Twilio SMS and PubNub. He put together this awesome screencast that shows off the game in action and then dives into the code behind it. For this game, see … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on April 19, 2012 Tagged

Partyline Transforms Phone Calls into Sound Collages for Art Hack

Partyline, a new experiment which rooted from and the winner of  Art Hack Weekend SF, combines ambient noises and involuntary participation, transforms phones into sound collages. Consisting of two parts–Voyeur, which dials participants and records their inputs and a Sequencer, which … Continue reading →

Posted by Ladan Mahini on April 18, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Build a Simple Phone Verification System with Twilio, PHP, MySQL, and jQuery

About a year ago we wrote about phone verification as a preventative to spam or fraud, and a simple way to keep your users safe. Twilio customers continue to use two-factor authentication for the benefit of their customers. Read more about … Continue reading →

Posted by Jonathan Gottfried on April 17, 2012 Tagged , , ,

SMS for Democracy: Cost of Freedom Voter ID App

 The Cost of Freedom Voter ID app powered by Twilio seeks to jump start the application process for voters who need to get a voter ID. Launched on April 4, the SMS-based app provides information for all 50 states and … Continue reading →

Posted by Jack Aboutboul on April 13, 2012 Tagged ,

Rotobooth: The Rotary Phone and Arduino-Powered Photobooth

Photobooths are cool, but what’s really cool is powering that photobooth with a rotary phone and an arduino, with a Twilio hack. And it looks pretty hip too. Rotobooth took third place out of over 50 hacks at PhotoHack Day … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on April 12, 2012 Tagged , , , ,

The Key to Phone Verification is a Good User Experience

At Twilio, it’s an article of faith that phones have an increasingly central place in our lives. This means it’s also increasingly important that all the numbers we use are accurate and up to date. One way to do this … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on April 11, 2012 Tagged ,