For those of you who do not yet know Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu (Rama), he has a great summary of his exploits on slideshare. He’s also the founder and CEO of GotoPal, which has just launched Smart Voicemail at TechCrunch Disrupt. The focus is initially Smart Voicemail, but the roadmap moves to Rama’s vision of smart personal […]
One of the things I enjoy about interviewing companies using Telecom APIs is talking with interesting people, like Anthony Presley the founder of TimeForge. They’re energetic, focused, and to the point. Such conversations are always insightful and a delight. TimeForge provides labor management tools which are particularly suited to industries with hourly workers, primarily restaurants, […]
Ivelin and I have known each other for many years; he’s the classic technology entrepreneur with a brain that can hop between deep technology discussions to a business discussion without a moment of hesitation. He founded Mobicents an Open Source VoIP Platform to help create, deploy, manage applications integrating voice, video and data. He is […]
George has recently joined Tropo as VP Marketing. He brings a wealth of marketing and product management experience from BSkyB, his own start-up Spontly, Velti, T-Mobile and Ericsson. One of his first decisions on the job was sponsoring TADS (Telecom Application Developer Summit). I asked George some questions around TADS, I’m doing this with all […]
Plivo enables web developers and enterprises to easily develop Voice and SMS applications. Plivo delivers the flexibility its customers require by allowing customers to bring their own carrier services and volume pricing models. Plivo eliminates the complexity from telephony by providing a scalable and feature-rich voice and messaging platform wrapped with flexible Telecom APIs and […]
Continuing the the series of weblogs highlighting businesses running on Telecom APIs, we review BLI Messaging, BeQuick Software and Meet.fm’s experiences of running on Telecom APIs. They are all customers of Aculab, a provider of Telecom APIs like Tropo, Twilio, Plivo, APIdaze and Bandwidth.com recently reviewed in this weblog. Aculab provides telephony resources on cloud, […]
Continuing the series of businesses running on Telecom APIs, I interviewed Sage Harrison, MSO (Marketing & Sales Officer) of Mercury Flight, about their experiences. Mercury Flight is a Broadcast messaging cloud based service that delivers an affordable way to communicate to clients, friends, employees and professional networks. Whether you need to call, text or email a […]
Before getting into the main message of this weblog, remember to beware “black and white thinking”. It’s about focus, not absolutes. This weblog came about as I realized this subtle but important distinction between mobile and telecom app developers is not broadly appreciated, it gets lost in the collective noun of developers. Most developers that […]
To not offer WiFi access to visitors is on the same level of social faux pas as to not allow visitors access to the toilet. I’ve reviewed previously the great market research Instabridge did on the typical consumer’s view of WiFi and 3G, with the classic quote “WiFi is free, 3G isn’t,” as shown in […]
Over the past 24 hours the emails, instant messages, and discussion in the Linkedin Telecom API group have been flowing faster than usual as people digest the news of Twilio’s latest $70M round with the usual fawning uncritical tech reporting that passes for journalism from TechCrunch. And don’t get me started on people who call […]