For our developer contest this week we’re challenging you to use Twilio Client to power up customer management and sales. Use Client to build a call management tool for a sales team, an intelligent click-to-call system, or anything else that helps improves sales and you could win: A brand new 11″ MacBook Air A full pass to the Twilio <Conference> (Sept 21st-22nd) $100 in Twilio credit… Read More
Month: August 2011
Get 24/7 Access to Tutors via Twilio-powered Wonder-Space Mobile
Wonder-Space Mobile (WSM) focuses on developing education-based mobile applications for grades K-12. WSM develops all content in house and is focused on the Android platform for the 2011-2012 academic year. Currently, they are contracted in Texas and Michigan to work with low performing schools to improve their academic skill levels. Students access the content via web and Android devices that either WSM or the school district… Read More
Play Pong With a Few Hundred of Your Closest Friends
Danny Newman and Joe Mease were asked by the City of Denver to develop an interactive project for Create Denver, a week-long program encouraging the growth of the creative sector. They decided on Pong, because it has a very low learning curve, and a very large number of people could play at the same time. They created Mile High Pong, which was projected on the side… Read More
Getting Started With the Box API in PHP
We’re running a contest this week with our friends at Box, so I thought I’d write up a quick tutorial on how to get started using the Box API in PHP. In this short tutorial, we’ll create a simple app that adds comments to a file by SMS. To get started, you’ll want to setup your project on Box. Head over to http://www.box.net/developers/services and click on… Read More
Twilio and Subversion: Have Phone, Will Deploy
A few weeks ago, I heard from Shawn Campbell that he was having problems using Twilio with Subversion. Initially, I thought he meant how he was storing and managing his source code, but I quickly figured out how wrong I was. He had one of the most common problems out there: he works with a number of teams, so he has to deploy a lot of different code to… Read More
Hacking LA
Last weekend, I helped organize API Hack Day LA. While the API Hack Day event has been making its rounds throughout the nation, this is the first time it’s come to Los Angeles. This was a special event for me because Los Angeles is where I call home—a home that’s tech scene has recently been the topic of debate. The day ran from 8 AM to… Read More
Brian Fountain Wins Twilio Prize at NYC Game Hack Day
We met Brian Fountain at NYC Game Hack Day where he built uChoos, a phone-based ‘choose your own adventure’ game which won him the $250 Twilio prize at the event. The event is a 24-hour hackathon dedicated to building games. You can check out the demo adventure “Evil Mountain” by calling (917) 338-3991. Brian got the idea to build this the day before the event and… Read More
Twilio Conference Speakers & Entrepreneur Discount
If you haven’t already heard, we’re hosting the Twilio Conference, our first users conference in San Francisco September 21st and 22nd. The event will bring together hundreds of entrepreneurs, developers, and business leaders from the Twilio community. Meet the Speakers We’ve got a fantastic speaker lineup featuring kickass developer, enterprise leaders, business visionaries, and Twilio employees throughout the organization. Whether you’re familiar with one Twilio technology… Read More
Austin Lone Star Ruby Conference: A Stranger in a Strange Land
This week I have the privilege of representing Twilio at the Lone Star Ruby Conference in Austin on August 11-13, 2011. In addition to the opening night reception, there will be a hack space set up to let people see, use, and explore the APIs and even try out Twilio Client live. As a PHPer who hasn’t touched Ruby (or Rails) in production since mid 2008, this… Read More