Archive for December, 2009

2009: The Year in Review

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | located in Inside Ribbit | No Comments »

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.

Tags: 2009 year in review, Ribbit

JP Rangaswami and Kevin Marks talk open APIs and what is possible with voice at Le Web

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 | located in Conferences/Events, Platform | No Comments »

Last week at the Le Web conference, @charbax from the Tech Video Blog caught up to BT’s JP Rangaswami and Kevin Marks to discuss the Ribbit platform and how open APIs give independent developers, ISVs and global enterprises the tools and functionality to create new ways to communicate-with people, businesses, and software.

Summarizing JP, ‘our job is to show you the what is possible with the enabling technologies…your job is to do something with it’.

I like JP’s framing around telcos and how they should embrace technologies like Ribbit, VOIP, etc. He notes telcos core job is to help people connect with one another, and while there will always be some tension when new technologies surface that compete with your bottom line, telcos who are willing to embrace and add value to these technologies will not only see revenues incrase, but ensure they are doing the best job possible for their customers.

Tags: le web, leweb, open APIs, Ribbit, tech video blog, voice as a data object

Vote For Ribbit As Read Write Web’s Favorite Web Product of 2009

Monday, December 14th, 2009 | located in Contests | 1 Comment »

Pleased as punch to see the newly released Ribbit Mobile received a nod on Read Write Web’s Best Products of 2009 ‘contest’.

The Read Write Team picked their favorite top 100 that includes some of ‘my’ favorite services as well (Twitter, Collecta, Evernote, Wordpress, Mint, and Tweetdeck), and will be narrowing it down to the top 10 of 2009 at the end of *this* week.

Know what I would love? I would love to see Ribbit make that top 10 list.

If you feel the Ribbit love, care to cast your vote for us? Voting is open through Friday, December 18th and you can select up to 10 products, just make sure ‘Ribbit‘ is one of them. Ha.

Tags: best products of 2009, read write web, readwriteweb, Ribbit, Ribbit CRM, ribbit for oracle, ribbit for salesforce, Ribbit Mobile, ribbit platform