Archive for June, 2009

Ribbit CEO Interviewed by O’Reilly

Saturday, June 27th, 2009 | located in Articles and Media Mentions | No Comments »

O’Reilly’s Joshua-Michéle Ross sat down recently with our CEO, Ted Griggs, to discuss chat Ribbit’s “Silicon Valley’s First Phone Company” tag line, our developer platform and community, and what’s behind the acquisition by BT.

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Ribbit Tweets: Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28

Saturday, June 27th, 2009 | located in Inside Ribbit | No Comments »

• @bullyinguk: Have you been promoting it? Just kidding. Glad to hear about the G1 working now. Curious to know about the ‘charge’. #
• @bullyinguk: Do me a favor, shoot kristie [at] ribbit.com an email to confirm what has been said on that side of the pond. I’ll investigate. #
• RT @veracarr: Flex Open Beta Meeting for beginner developers at 10am PST (now!) http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/openbeta #
• RT @crick: BT.com joins @NoChokePoints Coalition to Reform High Speed Capacity Broadband Market http://www.nochokepoints.org #
• @j0hngi11am: Glad you are liking the service. Any specific part that you find you now can’t live without? #
• RT @chuckstar: Flash on the Beach Schedule @fotb http://www.flashonthebeach.com/schedule/ <Chuck is speaking on Visualizing Voice> #
• Catch Ribbit at the BT Business Experience taking place next week in London - http://bit.ly/170yjf #
• @ooyala: BBQ? July 17th? Yes please. #
• Use the Ribbit platform to bring an extra layer of coolness to gaming. http://bit.ly/5JNDk #
• @bullyinguk: I would love to know the details around this & have asked you to email kristie @ribbit.com several times. Hands tied w/no info. #
• @bullyinguk: Thank you. Happy to review situation and see if there is something we can do to keep the skip in your step. #
• Ribbit News Splash: Making Banner Ads Cool Again and Road Tripping the Flash Way - http://is.gd/1enkS #

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Ribbit on the Road: We Loves ‘The Flash’

Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | located in Conferences/Events | No Comments »

We have started to lock in a few events for the Summer/Fall, and as you can see, we loves the Flash as much as we loves sending the Chuck Freedman around the world.

The plan is to get out from behind our desks a bit more in the Fall (October-November), so stay tuned as more details sure to follow.

• OPASTCO: July 25-29, 2009 in Colorado Springs, CO.
• EcSELL Institute Sales Management Summit: July 28-29, 2009 in San Francisco, CA. The Ribbit for Salesforce plans to ‘represent’ here.
• InsideRIA Conference: August 23-24, 2009 in San Jose, CA. Chuck Freedman will be speaking, topic/date/time all TBD.
• Flash on the Beach: September 20-23, 2009 in Brighton, UK. Chuck will be speaking on Visualizing Voice: Using the Flash Microphone for advanced interaction on Monday, September 21st at 10:15am.
• VON: September 21-23, 2009 in Miami Beach, FL. Crick Waters is leading a session here, more details to follow.
• LAFlashapaloozastock IV: October 3, 2009 in Venice Beach, CA
• FITC Un-conference at MAX: October 4-7, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA
• FITC Edmonton: October 17-18, 2009 in Edmonton, AB Canada. Chuck will be sharing his Visualizing Voice session, date/time TBD.

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Ribbit Tweets: Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21

Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | located in Inside Ribbit | No Comments »

• Where is @ooyala’s basketball? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ribbitvoice/3613560051/ #
• @senagbe @naquin316 @pryfogle: Interesting that most will upgrade to iPhone 3GS and pay extra for breaking contract early. #
• @wesleonardo shares his thoughts on Flash Catalyst http://bit.ly/gbqJD #
• @ooyala: Game on. Just know if you try to remove the Ribbit foosball table, heads will roll. LOL. #
• @uiwendy: I’ve seen the @ooyala monster…I must say…not so scary. Ha. @ooyala: Will not reveal ball ‘borrowing’ source. in reply to uiwendy #
• Science lovers should check out @brendanlee’s Hypermodernity post. Love this mind bending ’stuff’. http://bit.ly/vPRhK #
• Wow - did not take @ooyala long…must think about locking our doors going forward. Ha. #
• RT @uiwendy: @ribbit where’s your frog? looks like he’s downing a bottle of champagne http://twitpic.com/7285t #
• RT @uiwendy: The @ribbit frog is trying to jump from the @ooyala balcony and play a game of frogger. http://twitpic.com/728eu #
• @uiwendy: You’d be surprised (or not) of the people we let in this joint. Thinking we need to fire the frog. It sucks as a receptionist. #
• @GeraldineGray: Thinking we may let him jump. You know, add a little excitement to the building. in reply to GeraldineGray #
• @uiwendy: Me thinks we need to band together and go after the Friendster guys. They won’t know what hit them. in reply to uiwendy #
• Our frog has returned home, unharmed. All is right with the world again. LOL. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ribbitvoice/3614150443/ #
• @cmakki1069: He has 100+ ‘friends’ in the office. You can’t walk five feet here without tripping over a frog. in reply to cmakki1069 #
• @cmakki1069: Make that 99+. Seems our friends at @ooyola took another hostage. Ha. http://twitpic.com/72izk #
• @joseeight @theflashbum: Thinking we need to do another Bayou. http://bit.ly/VyyTo in reply to joseeight #
• @joseeight: I was going to use your photo as *our* avatar too, but thought that might have gotten a little confusing. in reply to joseeight #
• RT @timoreilly: Another note from the augmented reality future - using mobile phones to write notes in air http://bit.ly/127oYM #
• @jobsworth: Looking forward to seeing you next week. Bring a nice shirt as we will want to get you on video. #
• Ribbit News: Escape from NYC, Like the Word Catalyst, Twitter.Twitter.Twitter, Road Tripping. http://bit.ly/vYKdv #
• So who is going to sit at their computer at 9:01pm PST/12:01am EST tonight to lock down their Facebook User Name? #
• @voipusers: Sounds like you might be able to hire @joseeight to lock one in for you. #
• @joseeight: Cool. We always wanted to be http://www.facebook.com/joseeight. Win-win for everyone! #
• @voipusers: Interesting. Do you ‘live’ on any other socnets outside of Twitter? #
• @joseeight: This is wholly my thought (@kristiewells), I am a believer in branding your real name. Easier when when people meet you IRL. #
• @joseeight: Right. @joseeight it is then! #
• @voipusers: Catskills in the Summer sounds awesome. Got room for a few more? #
• @joseeight: No royalties, but we will continue to buy you beers at the Bayous. Assume that is good enough. #
• @kevinSuttle: Must find a way to get to Cincinnati so we can get a photo with you too. Maybe do a baseball tweetup or something. #
• @BenJam: Is this a video that talks about how much you love us? If so, we would like a copy. #
• @jessepickard: We will have a handful of beta invites available next week. If you are still interested, send email to kristie @ ribbit.com. #
• Need 631 more fans in 19 minutes to ensure we get Ribbit name on fan page. Anyone? http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ribbit/8282995497 #
• @jenniferjeffrey: What is inside the boxes? #
• @joseeight: Making you a ‘will promote for beer’ shirt. Thanks mate. Know 629 more developers? Ha. #
• @joseeight: Yeah, we filed the app this morning as we own the trademark. Just thought we would hedge our bets… #
• @joseeight: Did you happen to catch @anildash’s post on Facebook user names? Brilliant. http://bit.ly/3fpAb #
• @kevinSuttle: Come on over. Fridge is stocked, we have solid WiFi and did I mention a foosball table? Chez Ribbit is all right. #
• @voipusers: We are ‘good enough’ for Twitter, stand up comedy is too much work. #
• @mojosd: Good article from the folks at OPASTCO. http://bit.ly/bP7Co #
• Interesting - RT @dannysullivan: Google Analytics Now Considers Bing A Search Engine. http://bit.ly/bc7uq (via @timoreilly) #
• Cluetrain Manifesto @10 just released and @jobsworth has a chapter in it. Congrats! http://bit.ly/RyG2J #
• @mojosd: Not sure how we misquoted you. Please clarify. #
• @mojosd: We agree 100% that telecomms should rethink business from top-bottom in order to stay relevant. Innovation is key to most any biz. #
• @mojosd: Understood. Should’ve said ‘thank you for the pointer to the OPASTCO article’ or something similar. #
• Speaking of OPASTCO, @Ribbit plans to be at the show next month & is looking forward to chats around the future of telecomms. #
• @kwerb @mojosd: Telecomms integrate services (i.e. Ribbit) & empower developers 2 build apps around Ribbit/infrastructure = win 4 consumers. #
• @BenJam: I lent my flame thrower to the neighbor, so you get off easy today. #
• @BenJam: Seriously, with new technology comes need to educate, and it is something we are working on as we prepare for launch. #
• @swapnildesh: You can de-link your mobile by following these instructions http://bit.ly/Tf2Km #
• @swapnildesh: If you would like to keep your Ribbit account, you can now add your home phone as primary IN device. http://bit.ly/67sy5 #
• @alaninbelfast @steveellwood: Please add us to the BT Twitter list. Would love to bond with more of our brethren. #
• @kplanovsky: Glad you can sink your teeth into Ribbit now. Be sure to holler if you need anything. #
• RT @PaulSweeney: @donthorson MSFT Vine looks like a neat app with some obvious Ribbit mashup potential. <trying beta now, pretty darn cool> #
• @leedryburgh: But we will <always> be your favorite, right? #
• RT @joseeight: @jonbcampos - @SlideRocket is also integrating @Ribbit in its available tools, so more to love #
• Wishing @joseeight was a gremlin so then all we had to do was pour water on him, and presto! Ribbit lovers all over the world. :p #
• @joseeight: Absolutely. @joseeight = Gizmo. http://is.gd/13xN5 #
• Darn auto tweets - last one should have said ‘Adobe vs. Open Web and HTML5′ http://is.gd/13DPZ #
• RT @pete01010: @jhames @hashphotoshop Here is a subset of books I have on Safari Books Online #AS3 & #Flash #CS4 http://is.gd/12OXI #
• Shooting customer testimonials at @ribbit HQ. #
• Thanks for the shout out @bigfuel! Ribbit presents a new platform integrating the online world and phone calls: http://bit.ly/XBSYX #
• Sitting @jobsworth down in front of the camera. Expecting some good bits to come out… #
• @AtulAcharya @chuckstar: Sorry guys, didn’t see tweets until interview was over & @jobsworth was long gone. Will get info & post. in reply to AtulAcharya #
• I hear Tweetdeck has a new FREE iPhone app. Will kick their tires a bit to see if better than Tweetie (which is pretty darn good). #
• @sauloesdras: ¡Hola! ¿Qué tal? #
• @joseeight: Hold that Tweetdeck thought…my song just came up on the techkaraoke list. ;p in reply to joseeight #
• @joseeight: who needs friends when you have the Internet? <kidding> in reply to joseeight #
• Business owners on the go, choose your mobile apps wisely: http://bit.ly/DAl1V #
• @chuckstar breaks out a Flex example: login/logout of Ribbit with one mx:Button. http://bit.ly/GjFnR #
• We are working on a series of tips/tricks and interested to know what you might want us to sink our teeth into a little more. Suggestions? #
• @mygdal @jobsworth @crick: You can download the Ribbit logo at http://marketing.ribbit.com/mediakit/ - holler if you need anything else. #
• Ribbit News: Chatting up the White House, Tips and Tricks, Give Us an Excuse to Travel. Please. http://bit.ly/r5Vb8 #
• @steveellwood @san1t1: Building lostmydoggie w/Ribbit integration should be fairly quick, not sure about the ‘importing BT directory’ bit. #
• @san1t1: Sweet - rip open the code and get busy then. #
• @san1t1: Ever hear of weekends? ;p #
• @kevinSuttle: Will see if we can plan a trip to Cincy/Indy around a ball game. ..oops… I mean a technical conference. ;p #
• @ooyala: We’ve been spawning, so time for more square footage…just one floor below, so office bldg prankery can (and will) continue. #
• Packing boxes everywhere. Think this office move calls for more pizza. And coffee. #
• @kevinSuttle: We love <insert opposite of love>convention centers and suits</opposite of love>! See you soon! ;p #
• @BTBusiness: How good are you @ coding? Just kidding. VM via RSS feed not in the feature list as of right now. Passing along to engineering. #

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Vote with Voice

Monday, June 8th, 2009 | located in Applications | No Comments »

Once of the latest applications to come from our developer community is Vote With Voice.

Vote with Voice is a polling service where you call in to cast your vote, then watch as the application transcribes your vote to text and post it onto a call wall for all to see (and listen to as well as it also provides the MP3 of the original all).

Create your own, or participate in one of the other polls on the site. Try it. Call now. Cast your vote.

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Happy birthday Crick!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009 | located in Inside Ribbit | No Comments »

Crick turns another year on that proverbial age clock today, which gave us an excellent reason to take him out to dinner on his last night in New York, at one of my favorite Mexican restaurants, Rosa Mexicano. Never ending bowl of guacamole. Pomegranate margaritas. Braised pork tacos. Man, my mouth is watering just thinking about it today. Yum.

And flan. It is not a birthday unless you have flan. Oh yeah, and 6 spoons.

Hope you had a wonderful birthday Crick!

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Ribbit and Sprout Partner to Seed Online Engagement Campaigns With Voice

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 | located in Conferences/Events, Partners, Platform | 1 Comment »

We are pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Sprout, the premier platform for developing and managing creative engagement marketing campaigns, to offer easily integrated telephony features for any online social engagement campaign built on the Sprout platform.

The combination of Ribbit and Sprout offers a new realm of interaction opportunities through integrated voice, SMS, click-to-call, call transcriptions, and other Ribbit-enabled telephony functions. The innate richness of voice and telephony enables brands and agencies to easily build higher levels of engagement and social awareness with their target communities, resulting in enhanced value, brand “stickiness” and desired community action.

Online communities today have a growing expectation for a closer level of interaction with the brands and personalities they follow, which presents continued opportunities for creative agencies and innovative brands to develop exciting campaigns with the latest technologies. The Ribbit communications platform, a carrier-grade telephony-plus-software infrastructure, is enabling people and brands to completely rethink the way they communicate and interact. With Ribbit, voice or communications-enabled media provides closer, more personal engagement for online communities. Available directly through the Sprout platform, agencies and brands now can dramatically increase the reach and effectiveness of their campaigns with easily integrated and feature-rich voice and telephony capabilities.

Quotes:

Ray Lee, Director of Platform Strategy and Business Development at Ribbit: “Ribbit and Sprout provide a powerful combination for creative agencies and brands. Integrated voice and telephony fundamentally change the way organizations can now interact with their target online communities, and enhances the relationship for better value on both sides. The new telephony features in the Sprout platform give agencies and brands the cutting edge tools to quickly and easily develop highly engaging, rich media campaigns – a big advantage in the highly competitive online marketing world.”

Carnet Williams, CEO of Sprout: “Agencies and brands are always looking for ways to make their campaigns stickier and more engaging. Our technology platform allows them to launch the most creative online campaigns and by adding voice with Ribbit, brands will experience an unprecedented level of value, awareness, and engagement. We are excited to see how this will be used in the next generation of online social engagement campaigns.”

TELEPHONY IN THE ONLINE CAMPAIGN
The creative possibilities of telephony integration with Sprout are limited only by the creator’s imagination, and can easily turn interested customers into live leads or transactions.  For example, an innovative auto brand could develop a dream car-building application on their main website or other social media property, allowing user customization with all of the bells and whistles available. To continue the potential customer interaction, a stylish Ribbit-enabled “click-to-call” button could instantly connect the customer to a live operator to answer questions, schedule a test drive, or initiate a sale.

The movie industry is another example where voice and telephony integrated with online marketing campaigns can create better community engagement. Leveraging the interest of movie fans for frequent updates on cast news and movie progress, studios can integrate movie-themed widgets into any online campaign to distribute information and dynamic voice content. For example, a cast member or director could privately call a Ribbit number to send real-time, voice updates to all widget users. With Sprout functionality, fans could then forward the voice updates or transcriptions to their social network profile, and even leave their own comment for all of their friends to hear. News from the set, reaction to personal developments, updates from the red carpet – these are all personal, engaging updates that will keep fans coming back to the widget and brand for more information.  The integration of voice and interactive communication dramatically increases the widget value to the user, and can significantly increase brand visibility, reach and stickiness.

TELEPHONY AT CREATIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE (CaT)
Catch Ribbit on June 3rd in the Metropolitan Pavilion Gallery at the Creativity and Technology conference, in New York. Featured demonstrations will include Sprout, Ribbit Labs, communications-enabled ad banners, and Ribbit augmented-reality calling. Hope to see you there!

We are also hosting a Ribbit Bayou on Tuesday, June 2rd at the Maritime Hotel, and invite you to join us for a drink on the roof deck with the Ribbit team.

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