October 2010
2 posts
Phono.com Blog Post about my WordPhone Plugin →
Oct 29th
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I wrote a WordPress plugin for the Phono SDK →
It lets you put a full featured phone on your blog/website. Get the code and instructions at the GitHub repo above. Be sure to check out http://blogs.voxeo.com/ for a mention of it too!
Oct 29th
September 2010
2 posts
Tropo blog post about my example app and... →
Sep 29th
Sep 27th
July 2010
1 post
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Real-Human Pronunciations By Phone with Tropo and...
Problem: You’re at a foreign restaurant and your dining partner asks what “gruyere” is. OK, good; your time to shine.  You inform them it’s a hard yellow cheese from cow’s milk. Swell. They think that dish sounds good… but ask you to pronounce the word for them. You don’t want to make a fool of yourself with the wrong French accent so you google...
Jul 12th
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June 2010
2 posts
Jun 21st
Jun 21st
April 2010
1 post
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Transparency Data IM/SMS/Twitter bot - Public Beta
Transparency Data Tropo Application Slides Transparency of data has been a huge topic, and rightfully so. The people at Sunlight Foundation created transparencydata.com and while I like their web UI, I wanted a way to look up contributors on the fly. Like, say, with my phone’s built in SMS feature. Thanks to their open API, I created this tropo.com application that can be queried...
Apr 14th
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March 2010
1 post
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Google Translate IM/SMS/Twitter bot in less than...
Tropo recently announced international language/phone number support, along with Twitter support. In less than 15 lines, you can implement your own Google Translate IM/SMS/Twitter bot. This snippet doesn’t take advantage of Tropo’s international text-to-speech support but you should definitely check it out. Free code! http://gist.github.com/345179 Try it for yourself. Message format:...
Mar 26th
February 2010
3 posts
6 tags
Code Gist: [Ruby] Send Template-based Email... →
This is my very quick Ruby implementation for PostageApp’s RESTful API. It’s very simple but currently they only publish a Rails plugin. This method I wrote works great with any standalone Ruby app. Note, if the method returns true, it doesn’t necessarily mean the mail was sent successfully. It will only return false to the API call if you sent the request to a bad URL, your API...
Feb 14th
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Code Gist: [GRXML] Alpha Numeric Grammar XML →
I’ll try to keep this gist up to date. Works nicely with VoiceXML and Tropo.
Feb 10th
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Feb 6th
January 2010
3 posts
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Code Walkthrough: Twitter by Phone →
This is a guest post written by me for The Tropo Blog. Tropo (by Voxeo) just released a new interface into their unified communications platform: a JSON/WebAPI with a magnificent ruby gem. I had the pleasure to play with the new magic on the staging server, write some examples, and test functionality. Contact me or the Tropo support team if you have any questions about Tropo or
Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Hello World!
This is an obligatory initial blog post on my new  blog. Like the description up top says, I will be writing about unified communications (that’s voice, instant messaging, and cellular text message), open government (I do live in D.C.), and community involvement (as it relates to technology, and just giving back in general). Thanks for visiting. If you want to chat about any of these topics...
Jan 27th