Adhearsion Riding The Long Tail to Transparency

Transparency is the new regulation. A free market is best served by the open flow of information available to all as opposed to burdening the market with government regulations. Wired recently published an article bringing this into sharp focus with XBRL for the Financial Services Industry. Open source software and cloud computing are lowering the barrier of entries for companies and individuals. Who may now quickly create solutions that would have been prohibitively expensive previously. Dave Troy presented his experience launching the Twitter Vote Report at eComm last week, a solution for tracking voter experiences for the November 2008 Presidential elections.  Twitter Vote Report is a great example of activism translating into action. From inception to execution the project took weeks and performed brilliantly. The presentation may be seen here.
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Adhearsion played its part in the project providing the backend for the call-in reporting integrated to the Rails application. This effort highlights the ability to develop voice enabled Long Tail applications that leverage voice on the web in new ways. I hope to see more such projects where Adhearsion adds a new dimension to further the cause of transparency in government and the markets. The source code behind Twitter Vote Report is available on Github here.
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Queue-Tip - Adhearsion Community Project

Queue-Tip is a a monitor and reporting tool for the Asterisk Queues. Written by Jayson Vaughn the application is built with the Ruby on Rails and Adhearsion frameworks.

The application allows you to monitor the status of all of your queues, agents and calls in realtime along with historical reporting.

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This is a great example of the power of Adhearsion and Rails together. Great to see applications like this coming out of the Adhearsion community!

And, since it is open source, you may check out the source code on Github here.

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