Ribbit News: Ribbit In The Wild, Getting Microphone, Flashing Tips and Tricks, Happy 4thof July!

Ribbit in the Wild: SimplePhone and Rocketvox Case Studies We recently caught up with Joe Farrar at SimplePhone and Rick Peters from Rocket Technology Labs to see what they have doing with the Ribbit API, and what their plans are for the future:

• SimplePhone SimplePhone is a desktop-based Adobe Air phone application integrated with Ribbit that allows callers to place voice calls using a computer microphone, SimplePhone integrates with Broadsoft’s globally-recognized VOIP platform for carriers, and will be offered as an add-on service to SimpleSignal customers nationwide this summer.
• Rocketvox Rocketvox used the Ribbit API to create a universal inbox that collects all your voicemail, email, text, fax, and instant messages in a single place will help people more efficiently manage their digital lives.

To dig a little deeper into their stories, please visit the Ribbit website (just scroll down to the Developer Applications section) and read away. Have you been working on something you would like to share with the Ribbit community? We would love to hear it. Shoot an email to kristie [at] ribbit [dot] com, give us the 411 and we'll get it out there. ----- The Flash Microphone Wants to Record. It Does, Really. Chuck Freedman and Brendan Lee launched the Get Microphone website with a goal to "get Microphone" data access in Flash and draw attention to the creative things you can do with voice. During FITC Toronto 2009, Chuck shared two great examples in using  the Flash Microphone - the first is using Merapi, to capture Microphone, store it in a local file, and play it back. He also showcased Red5 where you can stream Microphone data to a remote server, record the stream and play it back. Awesomesauce. ----- Tips and Tricks Chuck unleashes his latest Flash example as he tinkers away on Ribbit Auth using simple Actionscript 3.  TextInput and Button controls in da hizzy. ----- Happy 50th, Happy 4th. Hard to believe...but this issue of the Ribbit News Splash is #50. Wow. We hope you have found some good bits over the past issues, and looking forward to expanding it a lot more as we go towards #100. We plan to include a lot more code, and more stories of people doing cool things. Shoot, we might even throw in a contest or two! The world is our oyster baby! We also release this issue as we head into the 4th of July holiday here in the United States, and would like to wish you all a wonderful weekend surrounded by friends and family, good eats and fireworks to!