2009: The Year in Review

December 31st, 2009 by Kristie Wells | located in Inside Ribbit | trackback

It seems fitting today to take a look back on the past year, and celebrate some of the accomplishments we have had here at Ribbit.

Corporate

• Ribbit CEO, Ted Griggs named CTO of BT Voice
• Following BT’s acquisition in July 2008, we focused our efforts on integrating into BT infrastructure
• The team is growing, so we packed up our things and moved into bigger digs.
• Launched new website at ribbit.com

Mobile

• Ribbit Mobile opens beta in the United States
• Launched private beta in the United Kingdom with BT employees and gave away a free trip to California to one lucky winner, Lucie Pepper!
• Apple approves the Ribbit Mobile iPhone app. Woot!
• App Gallery launched with  SMS, Conference, Check Messages (and more!) widgets

Platform

• REST API beta launched with new PHP, Javascript, Java SDK’s
• Announced Ribbit’s .NET Software Development Kit (SDK) and ready-to-use Microsoft Silverlight controls for communications-enabling Web pages and applications.
• Released Conference Call Gadget in Google Wave, and named a featured extension in their app gallery
• Kicked off global application challenge and saw some great submissions from Lucid Viewer, Save a Life, Sugared Frog, SimplePhone, and Control Your Home, Anywhere, Anytime (‘CYHAA’) to name a few.
• Major update to the developer web portal

CRM

• Ribbit for Salesforce 2.0 brought new SMS messaging and voice-based record creation features into Ribbit for Salesforce CRM.
• Announced the beta availability of Ribbit for Oracle, helping mobile workers to see instant productivity gains and positive returns on their CRM deployments.
  Opened Platform Beta

Look ma, we’ve Done good!

We were also nominated for a couple of awards (TechCrunch’s Crunchies, Read Write Web’s Favorite Web Product, CNET’s Webware 100) and took a couple home with us too!

• Won Salesforce Best Mobile App award for 2008
• Winner of the Innovative Web Technologies category in Microsoft’s BizSpark Accelerator at SxSW
• Named TMC 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year

We wish to thank every one of you for your support in all things Ribbit. 2009 was a great year and paves the path for an exciting 2010 for all of us.

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