Archive for November, 2008

Ribbit receives rave reviews at Adobe MAX for Platform launch and Killer App Challenge

Thursday, November 20th, 2008 | located in Conferences/Events, Platform | 1 Comment »

This week at the Adobe MAX Conference, Ribbit announced the launch of the Ribbit developer platform, opening the doors to software developers, integrators, and carriers around the globe that are looking for ways to develop and deploy the next-generation of telecommunications services. The launch has implications for broad sectors of the global telephony industry — developers, integrators and carriers alike.

The Ribbit Team was at hand to answer questions and showcase partner applications built on our Ribbit 2.5 Platform. The new platform enables developers to bring new communication services to market — designing, testing, deploying, pricing, billing, and monitoring the application, performing each of these functions in a user-friendly, Web-based, on-demand environment.

The news of our Platform release was picked up around the planet by news outlets and bloggers including TMCNet, Venturebeat, Mashable, CNET, PCWorld, and syndicated on Marketwatch, International Business Times, Digital Producer Magazine, IT Business Net, PR-USA. The industry and developer reviews were more than positive. Often highlighted was Ribbit’s Killer App Challenge we had announced Monday,  where we are awarding $100,000 for the best business productivity, media, social network, and next-generation applications to be created using the Ribbit API.

Tags: adobe max, BT, cnet, Flash, flex, Killer App Challenge, MarketWatch, mashable, Ribbit, Ribbit 2.5, Telephony, VentureBeat

Ribbit’s Killer App Challenge Launches at Adobe MAX

Monday, November 17th, 2008 | located in Conferences/Events, Contests, Platform | No Comments »

Ribbit is pleased to announce our $100,000 Killer App Challenge, a chance for developers to create the next killer application on the Ribbit open platform for integrating voice communications in applications, web sites, and communities.

The competition begins immediately and will conclude in March 2009. Cash prizes totaling $100,000 will be awarded to the most compelling, creative, and useful application in each of five development categories, as well as a grand prize for the best overall entrant.

The Killer App Challenge is an unparalleled opportunity for creative professionals, developers and entrepreneurs to have their ideas launched on this global stage. We’re looking for the kind of apps that will improve interactions between business and user, help brands better interact with their audiences, and evolve social networking into the next level of essential communication..

The five contest categories are:

1. Media, Advertising and Entertainment — Add unprecedented interactive value to a media campaign by captivating a target audience through rich voice capabilities
2. Social Networking and Communication — Create a Web 3.0 preview application that connects people via Open Telephony
3. Business and Productivity — Integrate voice and rich communication features into a business application workflow
4. Carrier, Network, or ISP Integration — Integrate innovative voice capabilities into an existing cable, carrier, mobile network, or ISP
5. Wildcard — Create an application that uses voice to improve the usability of any device or interface, from vending machines to ticket kiosks

Developers retain full ownership of their applications, so even those applications not chosen as a contest winner can be deployed to deliver exciting new voice capabilities to customers, partners and employees.

For a complete description of the rules and prizes of the Ribbit Killer App Challenge, visit www.ribbit.com/killerappchallenge

Tags: adobemax, BT, Flash, flex, Ribbit, Telephony, Voice

We are LIVE at MAX

Monday, November 17th, 2008 | located in Conferences/Events, Uncategorized | No Comments »

This week we are LIVE at Adobe MAX Conference in San Francisco and will be talking about how with Ribbit you be more creative, more productive and add value and profitability to your work.

There will be lots of useful information for developers at MAX: all week long we will be showcasing some powerful new apps at our Booth #314; we will also be announcing an exciting new contest to get the community fired up; and best of all Chuck Freedman, our Director of Ribbit’s Developer Platform will be presenting at MAX on Monday, November 17, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm - so be sure to check in regularly at the Ribbit developer blog for all the laterst information on MAX.,

We hope to see you all at MAX 2008 in San Francisco.

Tags: adobe max, Flash, max, Ribbit

SayHear.Org, a Ribbit Powered ‘voice your vote’ App goes live

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 | located in Applications, Developers, Platform | 1 Comment »

SayHear.org is a very cool web app that PJ Onori and the Creative Agency, Gershoni built using an AJAX UI and the Ribbit API for voice features. We simply adore this interactive app for its elegance and resourcefulness given that this election is poised to be historic with record-breaking numbers of voter turnout.

Callers dial a the number associated with their party affiliation and leave a message on why they decided to vote for their candidate.

* 805.456.5763: Barack Obama
* 805.456.5764: John McCain
* 805.456.5765: 3rd Party
* 805.456.5766: Not Voting

Once they do this, they can hop on over to www.sayhear.org to listen to what the rest of the country has to say in real time.

Tags: Developers, gershoni, open API, PJ Onori, Ribbit, ribbit platform, sayhear.org, vote