Tag Archives: sms

Twilio and Google Cloud Platform Bring Voice and SMS to Google App Engine

Five years ago, if you told your IT department you needed to build and scale a communications app in a week, they’d laugh – maybe even quit. Today, we have cloud-powered tools that allow developers and entrepreneurs to do this … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on April 2, 2013 Tagged , , , ,

Building a Real-time SMS Voting App Part 3: Scaling Node.js and CouchDB

This is the third in a four-part series of blog posts on building a real-time SMS and voice voting application using Node.js. In part one, we created the Node.js application and captured incoming votes over SMS. In part two, we … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on January 16, 2013 Tagged , , , , , ,

Building a Real-time SMS Voting App Part 2: Socket.io and Highcharts.js

This is the second in a four-part series of blog posts on building a real-time SMS voting application using Node.js. In part one, we created the Node.js application, set-up the CouchDB database and captured incoming votes over SMS with Twilio. … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on December 5, 2012 Tagged , , , , , ,

Connecting Twilio SMS to Google Spreadsheet

TwilioSheet is a little utility that makes it easy for developers to receive SMS messages in a Google Spreadsheet. I write a lot of simple little SMS applications, but they can be daunting at times. I often wonder if the … Continue reading →

Posted by Joel Franusic on November 28, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Get Out and Vote: Apps Helping You Get to the Polls

Tomorrow is our election day, time to get out and vote! SMS, Voice and new avenues of communication are changing the way we share information and mobilizing people to partake in one of our greatest rights in the US. Here are … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on November 5, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Fancy Hands Brings Personal Assistants to Everyone

Raising kids can be a full time job. Raising two kids while writing a book and trying managing bills all at the same time is nearly impossible. Ted Roden (pictured right) found this out the hard way. In trying to be … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on November 2, 2012 Tagged , , , , ,

Lyft Delivers Safe Rides and Easy Communication with Twilio API

Creating Lyft was a natural evolution for Zimride, a ride-sharing company that uses social networking to connect passengers with like-minded drivers for road trips. Lyft, currently available in San Francisco, operates by the motto “your friend with a car” and … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on October 23, 2012 Tagged , , , , ,

Building a Real-time SMS Voting App Part 1: Node.js & CouchDB

This is the first in a four-part series of blog posts on building a real-time SMS and voice voting application using Node.js. In part one, we will create the Node.js application, set-up the CouchDB database and connect everything to Twilio … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on September 18, 2012 Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

TwilioCon 2012: President of frog Doreen Lorenzo to Keynote

The countdown begins! TwilioCon is coming in October and we’ve got a serious line of speakers and content. Today we’re very excited to announce keynote speaker Doreen Lorenzo, President of frog, who will speak to the intersection of design with … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on September 6, 2012 Tagged , , , ,