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Ribbit WINS BritWeek innovation award for accelerating the future of real-time communications

Thursday, May 6th, 2010 | located in Awards | No Comments »

Ribbit, a BT company that delivers communication services that innovate and transform the way we interact, has been recognized as the overall winner in the Service Provision category for the first-ever BritWeek UKTI Business Innovation Awards. This program highlights the achievements of businesses with joint operations in the UK and California.

The awards honor companies for achievements in innovation before an audience of elite international players, as well as the wider California business community.  Winners were judged by a panel of renowned experts, including entrepreneur engineer Sir James Dyson and BBC Technology Correspondent Maggie Shiels.

During an awards dinner held Tuesday night in Beverly Hills, Ribbit was recognized for its dedication to moving communications forward with innovative technologies, such as its Google Wave conferencing gadget.  BritWeek recognized Ribbit’s work with its open, cloud-based environment for communications in which third party developers can take advantage of voice with little or no prior knowledge of telephony.

Backed by BT, Ribbit is uniquely positioned to offer developers carrier-grade reliability, security and scalability.  Ribbit’s commercially available applications – Ribbit Mobile and Ribbit for CRM – showcase the power of the open API Ribbit platform.  Ribbit Mobile gives consumers and business professionals a 21^st century solution for managing calls, messages and phones all in one place, while Ribbit for CRM extends the value of industry-leading CRM software, such as Salesforce, by integrating mobile voice communications, SMS, email and voice-to-text transcriptions with customer records.

Quotes:

• Fiona Francois, HM Consul and Director (West Coast USA) UK Trade & Investment.: “Ribbit’s platform is the next generation of communication technology, and UKTI is proud to recognize this outstanding achievement in innovation by a member of the California-United Kingdom business community.”
• Crick Waters, co-founder and executive vice president of business development and strategy at Ribbit: “In the past voice and data existed in largely separate online and offline worlds where incompatible technologies and business models severely limited even basic voice services. Our goal has always been to bring new experiences, interactions, products and business models to life for people all over the world, something we’re seeing come to fruition through the support of BT.”
• James Dibbo, board member of Ribbit and Chief Financial Officer, BT Global Services, Multi National Customers: “Innovation has long been at the heart of BT’s vision to help people make their lives and businesses better with products and services tailored to their needs and easier to use. BritWeek’s recognition of BT Ribbit’s work further validates our priority and focus to meet our customers’ needs today and innovating to meet their requirement for tomorrow.”

Tags: award, britweek, britweek 2010, innovation award, Ribbit, telco 2.0

Ribbit is a finalist in the BritWeek UKTI Business Innovation Awards

Friday, April 16th, 2010 | located in Awards | No Comments »

BritWeek 2010 and UK Trade & Investment host the BritWeek UKTI Business Innovation Awards where they recognize outstanding innovations in Design, Technology and Service Provision from companies based in both the UK and California. They just announced Ribbit is a finalist in the Service Provision Category.

The winners will be revealed on Tuesday, May 4th 2010. Keep your fingers crossed for us!

Tags: britweek, innovation awards, Ribbit, ukti

Ribbit Named Finalist in Webware 100

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 | located in Awards, Contests | No Comments »

Today the fine folks over at CNET Webware.com announced the 300 finalists (out of 5,000 submissions) for the Webware 100 contest, and opened voting today.

We are honored to receive this nod and sit happily among many of our well known and respected friends in the Infrastructure & Storage category, slotted for services that underpin Web sites or store our raw data, and tools for developers.

The polls will remain open through April 30th and all the winners will be announced on May 19th so you know what I am going to ask you to do now…show your love and cast your vote for Ribbit.

There are some great things happening within and around the Ribbit platform that we are very proud of; we have an amazing community of developers building some really innovative applications on our platform, Ribbit for Salesforce is launching in the UK on April 7th and our consumer product (’Ribbit for Mobile’) is moving from beta to public launch this Summer.

Winning the Webware’s Infrastructure & Storage category for 2009 would be icing on the cake. 

Tags: cnet, contest, developer platform, Developers, infrastructure, Ribbit, webware, webware100, webware2009

Ribbit Rocks at SXSW Interactive Festival

Friday, March 20th, 2009 | located in Awards, Conferences/Events, Platform, Ribbit CRM | No Comments »

I am very proud to announce Ribbit took top honors in the Innovative Web Technologies category in Microsoft’s BizSpark Accelerator at SXSW, beating out over 200 company entries. The Accelerator event highlighted the web’s most exciting new innovations through demonstrations in front of a live audience of industry professionals and technology trendsetters.

Ray Lee, Director of Strategy and Business Development for Ribbit, discussed the innovation of Ribbit’s Communication Platform which opens the previously walled off telephony industry to developers worldwide — enabling new forms of innovation, communications, and services.  The judges were pleased and at the end of the day, gave us a nice little glass trophy to take home to our boss.

Ray, beaming with pride, shared this little nugget:

“Winning the Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator is a great validation of Ribbit’s platform strategy. The judges really responded to the fact that innovative, high-value applications are being built using Ribbit’s voice and data integration capabilities. And, by highlighting the success of our Ribbit for Salesforce application, we were able to demonstrate a proven business model for enabling our 12,000+ developer community, and carrier partners to innovate and deploy on the Ribbit platform.”

The Ribbit Communications Platform also got rave reviews during the panel discussion “What Does Awesome Sound Like?,” on the impact of voice integration on user interaction, led by Chuck Freedman and Brendan Lee of Ribbit. A highlight of the panel was a demonstration by Ryan Stewart, Adobe Platform Evangelist, showing the first augmented reality telephone call – showcasing the flexibility and power of Ribbit functionality. We shot some video from this session and will be posting online in the next couple of days.

Douglas MacMillan from BusinessWeek had this to say when he wrote up a little piece on Ribbit:

“The tool can be used to dial up a land line or mobile phone, much like VOIP services like Skype. But unlike Skype, it can be molded to perform neat little tricks like transcribing phone calls and instantly analyzing what’s being said. One of Ribbit’s most popular third-party developers is Salesforce.com, which now lets workers dial up clients straight from the web-based CRM software.”

Doug also captured Ray and Chuck in this little video interview:

Ribbit from Doug MacMillan on Vimeo.

We shot some photos while there, and I was able to do a few video interviews as well that will be posted over the next couple of days (thinking I need to hone my video editing skills as it takes me way too long to do this).

Chuck also shared some some tid bits on his panel, some folks he met and talked about our ‘Your Call’ initiative over on the Developer blog, which round out our week there nicely.  It was a good time for the Ribbit team and I am expecting a few more of those in the near future.

Tags: innovative web techology award, Ribbit, sxsw, sxswi, sxswspark

Ribbit for Salesforce Named “Best Mobile App of 2008″

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 | located in Awards, Ribbit CRM | 1 Comment »

So we may not have won an Oscar Sunday night, but we did recently grab the Salesforce Best Mobile App award for 2008, and we think that is pretty darn special in itself.

Ribbit for Salesforce is the first enterprise application on the market to link mobile voice communications and CRM sales productivity, and it seems the Salesforce.com customers like us. They really, really like us.

Sales organizations using Ribbit for Salesforce can do more with less by reducing their administrative burden, and helping them become more responsive and collaborative. Ribbit offers a voice-to-text conversion capability enabling salespeople to dictate notes and memos using their mobile phones, which automatically flow directly into salesforce.com and their email inbox — eliminating the need to type updates.

The solution further simplifies sales management by storing and organizing voicemail like email in salesforce.com, with messages fully mapped to leads, contacts, and in-progress deals. In addition, all voice messages are delivered as SMS or email so you can respond or forward immediately, without dialing into voicemail.

Ribbit for Salesforce has gotten strong traction across a number of verticals including financial services, high tech, real estate, healthcare, and insurance. It delivers significant benefits to both the individual user as well as to management, and Ribbit customers are responding. Haven’t signed up yet? Let’s correct that now.

Quotes:

• “Our industry is under extreme pressure to do more with less, and our ability to work smarter and more efficiently is one of the keys to our continued success,” said Will Stacy, director of marketing for Drive Financial, one of the fastest-growing companies in the automotive finance sector. “Ribbit for Salesforce is exactly the type of solution we look for. It allows each salesperson to be more responsive to leads and to take advantage of every opportunity.”
• “We rely on Ribbit to deliver voice messages as text attached to Salesforce.com contacts, in email, and on our phones,” said Lloyd Fremed, General Manager at Xerox Scan and Print. “We record voice messages as text for easy forwarding. It’s great to have messages automatically attached to contacts within salesforce.com.”
• “Ribbit makes us more productive and responsive to customers,” said Kevin Edelmann, CRM Solutions Administrator for Delta Dental. “It’s become essential to our workflow and our sales people love it.”
• The Best Mobile App of 2008 award is especially gratifying as it’s purely based on customer reviews,” said Greg Goldfarb, GM of enterprise applications for Ribbit. “Wwe are solving core productivity challenges faced by mobile workforces, and our roadmap over the next six months will deliver another massivebig step forward.”

Things you will want to dig into:

• Ribbit for Salesforce information portal
• Ribbit for Salesforce Data Sheet

Ribbit for Salesforce is an AppExchange Certified Application and is available to all U.S.-based salesforce.com customers using Professional Edition and above. For more information or to learn about Ribbit’s free pilot program, please visit www.ribbit.com/salesforce.

Tags: crm, mobile, mobileaward, Ribbit, ribbitaward, ribbitforsalesforce

Ribbit honored in eWeek’s “Top Web Products, Services of 2008″

Friday, December 12th, 2008 | located in Articles and Media Mentions, Awards, Platform, Ribbit Mobile | No Comments »

This has been a phenomenal year for the Ribbit community and today’s inclusion in eWeek’s “Top Web Products, Services of 2008″ just made our day.

eWeek’s annual list honors new Web products or services released in 2008 that have truly made an impact in the IT industry. The list includes some well known heavyweights like Google and Yahoo, but also startups like blist, Poweset and Ribbit whose innovations have proven to be crucial to the consumers and workers who depend on them. We couldn’t have asked for a better Christmas present:

Some of the other innovators in this category are:

• blist, an easy to create sharable web list
• Google App Engine
• Powerset, acquired by Microsoft earlier this year
• Yahoo! Developer Network
• Google Health
• Google Chrome
• Google Android
• Yahoo! YOS 1.0
• Voice and video chat for Google Gmail

A big Thank You to our developer community for helping us build a truly innovative platform. Here is to a great 2009.

Tags: Android, Awards, blist, eweek, Google, Google Chrome, Powerset, Ribbit, Services of 2008, Top Web Products, Yahoo!

The Crunchies

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 | located in Awards, Ribbit Mobile | No Comments »

We got word just before Christmas that we’d been nominated for two TechCrunch Crunchie Awards for 2007. Awesome! If you don’t know about the Crunchies, it’s a new technology award “competition” being pulled together by TechCruch, with help from Om Malik, VentureBeat and Read/WriteWeb. While the Ribbit team has been cranking for some time on our technology and infrastructure, we just pulled the covers back for the public about 4 weeks ago, so we’re delighted with the quick-turn recognition given to us by our tech fans.

The first nomination is for “Best Enterprise Start-Up” which is huge because it acknowledges the hard work the team has been putting into Ribbit for Salesforce. Ribbit for Salesforce continues to gather momentum. Expect more news soon on this front.

The second nomination is for “Best New Start-Up of 2007″, with the other nominations being; Hulu, iMedix, Joost, and Tumblr. This is great company for sure and it’s a huge honor to be included.

The Crunchies “contestants” are nominated and selected by you guys, anyone can vote, and you can vote once a day until the voting ends Jan 10, so we are asking for your help (being nominated is cool, but we wouldn’t mind winning)