http://voipmashups.com Watching real time communications transform the business process Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:53:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The folks at Lypp formerly Gaboogie have introduced an API for their telephony service. With this API, you can create conferences on the fly for your mashup. An initial review of the API is impressive. It's the first true REST style API for VoIP deployment that we've seen. Erik Lagerway,founder ... http://voipmashups.com/193/lypp-announces-api-ready-for-mashups To all of you web developers take a look at EVOCA This API could become the equivalent of a map, calendar, or paypal api for web developers. I love their tag line, "Get a Phone for Your Website!" Evoca allows website visitors or any community of people to create and manage ... http://voipmashups.com/192/evoca-an-api-for-telephony-mashups When you have a chance, check out Jon and Brian's Podcast on PulverMedia. If you are basically unfamiliar with the IPTV market, this is an excellent introduction by one of the best marketing guys out there. Brian and I worked together at Netcentrex, and now he is the ... http://voipmashups.com/191/brian-mahoney-and-jon-arnold-podcast-iptv In the Web Integrated Telephony Architecture, I identified the middle piece as being a Ruby on Rails application. It accepts data from the User Interface (commonly implemented as Voice XML forms), and then drives action through Web Services, and for WITA, telephony web services. As I thought about ... http://voipmashups.com/190/ruby-and-the-role-of-culture-in-development Apparently, the one thing you don't want to be in LA is a male Hispanic on Sunday. Avoid that, if you can. Especially if there's a gun around. I love my hometown on Cape Cod, and (I can't believe I'm saying this) when I see things like this, ... http://voipmashups.com/189/the-depressing-mashup-of-the-week Well, the ten thousand dollar VoxBone competition is now over, and Oigaa from VozTelecom took first prize. Oigaa is a web based telephony service targeted towards small and medium businesses, much like Flat Planet Phone Company. My congratulations go out to them; it is an example of ... http://voipmashups.com/188/mashup-competitions-or-telephony-finds-its-tail Wow - thanks to all of you out there for some serious link love: Ken Camp's Post, Jon Arnold's Post, Solomon Ige's Post, and Phone Boy's. As I told Ken, I sometimes feel like I'm designing in a cave, and never really know if anyone else cares. ... http://voipmashups.com/186/thank-you-for-some-serious-link-love Well, now that the programmable web ball is rolling, we're getting ready for the tradeshow season. A big part of that for us is going to be in our hometown at this year's Fall VON in Boston (Wait a second. Does that mean we have to buy the ... http://voipmashups.com/187/fall-von-innovators-track Well, the day is here - today we announce our partnership with ProgrammableWeb, the leading go-to place for mashup developers. I met John Musser at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 show this March, and we've become fast friends and partners. John's site is invaluable to everyone in the ... http://voipmashups.com/185/the-thomas-howe-company-now-in-partnership-with-programmable-web If you were to ask me, I would say the twenty year old software engineer has a distinct advantage over the older telephone guys (such as me) in the realm of innovation.  Since the barriers to entry to deploying a service provider have fallen through the floor, the larger challenge ... http://voipmashups.com/184/api-of-the-week-dbpedia-api