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BuildingLink Reaches Residents During Hurricane Sandy With Twilio SMS

On Sunday October 28th, Mayor Bloomberg issued an evacuation of all Manhattan residents in Zone A. Jerry Kesterbaum, founder of building management web platform, BuildingLink, had just a few hours to send out SMS evacuation notifications to all residents in … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on November 29, 2012 Tagged , , , ,

Infield Health Builds Mobile Health Solutions with the Twilio SMS API

Can a text message a day keep patients on-track with health programs? Three years ago Doug Naegele, president of Infield Health, decided to find out. Infield Health uses mobile technologies like SMS messaging and secure mobile web to help people … Continue reading →

Posted by admin on May 10, 2012 Tagged , , , ,

Retail SMS In-Stock Reminders with Twilio

DOer Timmy Crawford is the developer behind Cone Patrol, the Twilio-powered app serving up your powder alerts for northwest during the snow season. He is also the Lead Web Developer at The Longboard Store. Timmy recently implemented SMS reminders to … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on May 9, 2012 Tagged , , ,

CakePHP and Twilio: Receiving and Replying to SMS

This post by developer Bruno Nadeau  was originally posted on the Wyld Collective blog here and is related to a project exploring communication that drives public displays of commentary called Cityspeak. Bruno is an interactive designer and software developer at … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on April 30, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Top Hat Monocle Helps Students Learn More Using Classroom Tools Powered by Twilio SMS

Walk into any school lecture and you will notice how many students are looking at their phones and how few are looking at the teacher. It’s no wonder that so many teachers try to discourage the use of cell phones … Continue reading →

Posted by admin on April 2, 2012 Tagged , , ,

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 , ,

TaxiMagic Builds an SMS Dispatch System Powered by Twilio

TaxiMagic was founded with the simple idea of making it easy to hail a cab. We’ve all been there: standing on a city street fluttering our arms like balky kites at passing taxis that refuse to stop. Or, equally frustrating, calling … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on March 22, 2012 Tagged , ,

SurveyGizmo Launches SMS Surveys with Twilio Connect

Our friends at SurveyGizmo recently announced a cool new product for real-time mobile surveys delivered via Twilio SMS. We can think of lots of ways this will be useful—for event organizers who need to get quick feedback, for facilitators at … Continue reading →

Posted by admin on March 20, 2012 Tagged , , , , ,

CraftJack Delivers Instant Leads to Home-Improvement Contractors

CraftJack, an online service that connects home owners with home-improvement contractors, needed a way to deliver instant leads to its advertisers. The company switched from Ifbyphone to Twilio and reduced its lead distribution costs by 75 percent. Ross Gordon, the … Continue reading →

Posted by admin on March 7, 2012 Tagged ,