Writing a Ruby app for Tropo

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Tropo is a great step in the right direction. Voice enabling your applications powered by a voice cloud is simple again. No need to mess with XML-based interfaces and get straight to writing your application with an effortless API. The first phase of Tropo allows you to write an application in Javascript, PHP, Groovy, Python or Ruby. To get started you may register for a free developer account on the Tropo website. After logging in you then have two ways you may deploy your applications. The first is to drop the script you have created on a web server and give Tropo a URL, the second is to post your script directly into Tropo with their free file hosting service. For this Ruby app we will be creating the file locally and dropping it on a web server for Tropo to fetch.

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Grid.com launches @ eComm

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We have been working with the guys at Grid.com for the past several months. They announced their launch at eComm in San Francisco yesterday, with a focus on providing fictionless APIs to speed telephony and related development. We plan to work with them closely in the coming weeks, in the meantime have a look at their presentation from eComm here: [slideshare id=1101744&doc=11jamiesiminoff-090304141316-phpapp01]
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