Archive for November, 2009

LinkedIn to Ribbit’s social feeds

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 | located in Developers, Partners | No Comments »

We were lucky enough to be one of the early participants to use the LinkedIn API, and it was a perfect fit to be one of our first four social feeds inside of Ribbit Mobile. Our target customers are mobile professionals and many are very active on LinkedIn, so our team was excited to use the API so early. Today, the LinkedIn API is now available to all developers, which we think is a great step forward as we’re a firm believer in open APIs for public consumption.

“LinkedIn’s open API is perfectly matched to Ribbit’s open telephony API.  Mapping callers’ “communications” identity with LinkedIn identities allows Ribbit to bring “Caller ID 2.0” to market – bringing LinkedIn users’ updates and content right to the desktop of Ribbit Mobile users is groundbreaking – and made possible because of the ease of use of LinkedIn’s new open API.” - Crick Waters, SVP Strategy and Business Development at Ribbit

As a platform company ourselves, it will be interesting to see how developers leverage the LinkedIn platform as there seems to be a lack of good business applications available in the various app stores right now, so finding ways to access your professional (and personal) relationships with API mashups has solid potential. We would love to see developers building apps around Ribbit Mobile, and also using our API to bring communications into other applications. Interested in learning more? Click here.

Tags: API mashup, linkedin, linkedin API, mashup, Ribbit Mobile

Ribbit on the road

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | located in Conferences/Events, Public Speaking | No Comments »

There is a little something for everyone here and hoping to lay our eyes on you at one or more of these events:

Microsoft PDC: November 17-19, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA. Join Mat Taylor, Joe Black, Wes Leonardo and Lisa Chand on the show floor in the Ribbit booth. Think they have plans to buy some drinks while there, so make sure to hit them up if you see them!

Dreamforce: November 17-20, 2009 in San Francisco, CA. We just announced the Ribbit for Salesforce 2.0 release so make sure you stop by our booth (#317) and ask the team to give you a demo of the voice to text record creation, SMS (text) messaging from the web and so much more.

• You should also catch our very own Greg Goldfarb (vice president and general manager of enterprise applications) during his “Sales 2.0: Boosting Rep Productivity with the Best New Web Technologies” session on Friday (10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m) in Esplanade 300.
• And our good friend (and Ribbit for Salesforce loving client), Will Stacy, will be taking the stage during Dreamforce in the “Mobile Round Table: Success Stories from the Trenches” on Thursday (2:45 pm) in Room N125.

Supernova: December 1-3, 2009 in San Francisco, CA. Join Ribbit’s Crick Waters and BT’s JP Rangaswami and Kevin Marks in three killer sessions.

• On December 2nd at 9am: JP Rangaswami, John Hagel, Umair Haque, Ellen Levy discuss Crisis? What Crisis? Strategies for a Connected World. Was the financial crisis a permanent discontinuity in market economies, or just a temporary bump in the road? Either way, can the strategies and economics of the 20th century to translate to the digitally networked world of the 21st?
• December 2nd at 3pm: Kevin Marks, Barney Pell, Caterina Fake cover Sense Making: Real Time Search, Answers, and Discovery. How can we extract actionable knowledge out of the cacophony of interactions as they happen? Is real-time search just a faster version of searching the web, or something fundamentally new?
• December 3rd at 8:30am has Doc Searls, Crick Waters, Christopher Dean, Brian Bogosian, Craig Walker dig into Telecom as Software. As the Internet model of decentralized open systems takes over communications, what will change and what will stay the same? Who will thrive and be threatened? And what new possibilities will open up?

Telco 2.0: December 9-10, 2009 in Orlando, Florida. Ribbit’s Brian Coulter, Thomas Howe from The Thomas Howe Company and Jajah’s Trevor Healy will dig into the following session:

• Voice & Messaging 2.0: Comms-Enabled Business Processes taking place on December 10th at 9:30am where they will discuss the opportunity to grow revenues from the Government/Enterprise/SME sector, creating a new ‘platform’ business model using Voice and Messaging APIs, comms-enabled business processes, value creation and money flow, and implications plus next step actions.

Tags: Conferences/Events, dreamforce, Events, microsoft pdc, Ribbit, ribbit on the road, supernova, telco 2.0

Ribbit Mobile Brings Voice-To-Text, Caller ID 2.0, Smart Call Routing and more!

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | located in mobile | No Comments »

This morning we released Ribbit Mobile (formerly known as Amphibian) to the general public. ::so excited::

Ribbit Mobile merges telephone capabilities with the internet to let YOU choose when and how you want to communicate. Now you can stay in touch in more ways, in more places, without restrictions - all without changing phones, phone numbers, or phone carriers.

Want to know more? Check out the new website, our Ribbit Mobile new blog, and chat with us on Twitter. And more importantly, be sure to sign up to get your free account now!

Tags: Ribbit, Ribbit Mobile, ribbit mobile beta