Below are photo reviews from TADS 2013. I hope they give you a flavor of what happened at TADS, and for the 100+ attendees a nice reminder of what happened only 2 months ago. My TADS review is here. All the presentation slides are available for the Telco Summit and Developer Summit, and the videos […]
Continuing the series of companies running their business on Telecom APIs, I interviewed Kevin Hegebarth, Vice President, Marketing and Product Management at HireIQ. HireIQ’s SaaS-based on demand interviewing and assessment solutions improve hiring efficiency, lower attrition, and improve workforce performance. When Kevin explains their proposition to me it was obvious, and that’s the power of […]
I had the good fortune to talk with Serena Wales, CTO of Textizen, about how they are using SMS to encourage people to be more involved in their communities, non-profits and local government. Textizen uses SMS because of its ubiquity to engage people through surveys, over 90% of Americans have text. Textizen began at a […]
The first ever Telecom API conference ran in London from 11-13th November. We ran a packed pre-conference workshop (see picture opposite) entitled, “All You Wanted to Know About Telecom APIs, But Were Too Afraid to Ask!” with about 30 attendees from around the world. Presentations included Tropo, Apidaze and Telestax. Below are the slides presented […]
The Telecom Application Developer Summit took place from 21-22 Nov 2013 in Bangkok, the slides are now available here, the videos and photos will be available soon. TADS is much more than just 2 days in Bangkok. Our objective with TADS is to help build the telecom application developer ecosystem from the grassroots, to expand […]
I had the opportunity recently to chat with Mark Kovatch, Vice President Sales at Questar, about his experience in using Telecom APIs. Questar is the name behind many of the Customer Experience Management programs of the big brands. Founded in 1985 they pioneered the “sales receipt survey.” For those in the US, whenever you go […]
Tropo have launched the Tropo Developer Network (TDN), it’s a community of technical and business experts collaborating to bring Tropo-powered apps to new customers and markets around the world. If you have built a service focused on say the UK market, TDN can help you to take that service to other markets in say the […]
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting at the Illinois Institute of Technology Real-Time Communications Conference and Expo, its a collaborative event, where industry and academia connect. The presentation I’m giving is on ”The Winners and Losers in the move to Real-Time Cloud Communications,” shown below. If you track my presentations on this topic, the new material focuses […]
Protiviti provides an example of a business using Telecom APIs to better serve its retail industry customers with a great retail auditing and awareness service. Protiviti is a global business consulting and internal audit firm composed of experts specializing in risk, advisory and transaction services. They add value and provide solutions in finance and transactions, […]
The sponsors of the Telecom Application Developer Summit made a press release today on a Manifesto to solve the Telecom Industry’s innovation gap. Austin TX, Cambridge UK, Colombo Sri Lanka, Paris France, San Francisco CA, 1st October 2013 – Apidaze, hSenid Mobile, OnMobile, OpenCloud, Telestax, and Tropo, the companies leading the new wave of telecommunication […]