Monthly Archives: August 2012

Burner App Offers Alias Phone Numbers Powered by Twilio

People have a million reasons to mask their phone number. Have you tried shopping on Craigslist? You probably wish you had a way to get those concert tickets you wanted without giving out your number to a person you don’t … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on August 17, 2012 Tagged , , , , , ,

Engaging Users and Mobilizing Advocacy with Twilio Short Codes

It’s been a little over a year since we launched our Twilio Short Code product, and in that time we’ve seen amazing applications built on top of the short code platform. Now with hundreds of registered short codes in our … Continue reading →

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DOers in Africa: Empowering People Through Mobile Technology

This past June I was fortunate enough to play host to an entrepreneur by the name of Assane Seck.  Assane is the founder and CEO of Djanoa, a cloud SMS platform that is currently in beta in Senegal.  Assane was … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on August 15, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Get Hands-On with Twilio During the TwilioCon 2012 Workshop Day

This year at TwilioCon 2012 we’re kicking everything off with a full day of hands-on workshops led by Twilio engineers, product managers and our team of developer evangelists. We’ll dive deep into Twilio 101 for Twilio Voice, SMS and Client, … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on August 14, 2012 Tagged , ,

Build a Scheduled Reminder App with Twilio and IronWorker

Chad Arimura is a co-founder and CEO of Iron.io, makers of IronWorker, scalable background worker service, and IronMQ, hosted reliable message queue service. A web applications developer for over 15 years, Chad is a big believer in “serverless” app development. IronWorker is … Continue reading →

Posted by Joel Franusic on August 13, 2012 Tagged , , , ,

Triage.me Gets Patients to the Best Care via SMS

Dan Wilson (left) and Mark Olschesky (right) went to the Milwaukee Build Health Hackathon hoping to build useful tools to improve healthcare for both providers and patients. They didn’t expect that they’d come out of the hackathon with a brand new … Continue reading →

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TwilioCon 2012 Announces Keynote Steve Blank, New Speakers

We are excited to announce keynote speaker Steve Blank, a serial-entrepreneur, successful author and appointed “Master of Innovation.” Steve’s experience in Silicon Valley, along with his rich insight to entrepreneurship is revered worldwide. He has published multiple books about customer … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on August 10, 2012 Tagged , , ,

How To Tell A Story With Code

Whether you are in front of a packed room of hackers, a huddled group on a trade show floor or a sweaty basement filled with gutter punks, every audience just wants you to tell them a story.  From sprint demos … Continue reading →

Posted by Rob Spectre on August 9, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Ooomf Powers App Distribution Using Twilio SMS

Mikael Cho is the Founder of ooomf, a Montreal-based startup building the future of social app discovery. Prior to ooomf, he co-founded 2 startups and graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in Psychology. Ooomf is a social … Continue reading →

Posted by Jonathan Gottfried on August 8, 2012 Tagged , , ,