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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

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. 

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Ribbit Sparks Global Commuication Innovation with Killer App Challenge

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 | located in Contests, Platform, Ribbit Mobile | Comments Off

Winners Demonstrate Innovation, Creativity in Key Business and Consumer Voiceware Categories

Today we announced the winning voiceware applications in our $100,000 Killer App Challenge that offered developers around the world the chance to create the next leading edge applications on the Ribbit open communications platform for integrating voice communications into applications, web sites, and communities.

Unlike platforms such as Apple or Google, applications built on Ribbit are not confined to a “walled garden” - a single carrier, device or operating system – and can bridge the mobile/web experience for consumer and enterprise use. Through the Ribbit-BT partnership, developers gain unprecedented access to a global telecom infrastructure, and can quickly and easily build new voiceware applications, without being locked to a specific carrier, network or device – an industry first.

Nearly 500 developers from over 30 countries participated in the Killer App Challenge. Selected from nearly 150 applications, the winners of the Ribbit Killer App Challenge are:

Lucid Viewer (Grand Prize winner) – Media, Advertising & Entertainment Category: Lucid Viewer (photo above) is an authoring tool designed to empower artists and entrepreneurs with the ability to explore and create immersive experiences, and creating a new level of engagement between consumers and businesses. Lucid Viewer is royalty free and requires only a one-time license fee. For more information, please visit http://killerappchallenge.ribbit.com/news/?page_id=576/

Save a Life – Social Networking & Communication Category: Save a Life creates contact-on-demand access to an entire social networking community. With Save a Life, a community member with an urgent need to reach the entire membership or a segment of the community by phone can eliminate the need to look up phone numbers. Mashing up Ribbit, Yahoo Maps, and Google Calendar, Save a Life can be used for such applications as an emergency donation campaign or an emergency dispatch service. For information on Save a Life, please visit http://killerappchallenge.ribbit.com/news/?page_id=712

Sugared Frog – Business & Productivity Category: Sugared Frog integrates Ribbit with SugarCRM to integrate voice into the SugarCRM workflow. With Sugared Frog, salespeople can dictate notes and memos using their mobile phones and have them automatically flow into SugarCRM and their email inboxes. They can store and organize voicemail as email in SugarCRM, with messages mapped to leads, contacts, and in-progress deals. And all voice messages are delivered as SMS or email so salespeople can respond or forward immediately without dialing into voicemail. To view the demo, please go to http://killerappchallenge.ribbit.com/news/?page_id=899 and use the Sugar login ‘jim’ with the password ‘jim’.

SimplePhone – Carrier, Network, or ISP Integration Category: SimplePhone is a desktop-based Adobe Air phone application that allows callers to place voice calls using a computer microphone. It integrates with the Broadsoft Xtended platform and in partnership with SimpleSignal to configure various services. You may get a closer look at SimplePhone by visiting http://killerappchallenge.ribbit.com/news/?page_id=868

Control Your Home, Anywhere, Anytime (‘CYHAA’) – Breakthrough Category: Currently still a prototype, Control Your Home, Anywhere, Anytime, will allow users to “phone home” to access and control thermostats, appliances, security systems and more through voice commands. It will create a foundation for other voice-controlled applications for both consumers and enterprises. For more information on CYHAA, please visit http://killerappchallenge.ribbit.com/news/?page_id=571

Ribbit developers retain full ownership of their applications, including those participating in the Killer App Challenge. Although non-winning, many of the submitted applications demonstrated key business and consumer values, and are expected to come market in the near future with support from Ribbit.

The Ribbit communications platform – a carrier-grade telephony-plus-software infrastructure with a global community of 12,000-plus application developers – is enabling people and businesses to completely rethink the way they communicate. By treating voice as a data object, Ribbit lets developers add feature-rich voice capabilities to any application, on any device – capabilities such as updating records by phone, integrating voice and messages into a single workflow, and initiating many automated processes via voice command. For more information on becoming a Ribbit developer, visit the Ribbit Developer Community at developer.ribbit.com.

Quotes:

• Jason Villmer, creator of Killer App Challenge grand prize-winning application, Lucid Viewer: “Working with the Ribbit platform, and integrating voice into Lucid Viewer was really a very straightforward process, and it was accomplished in a very short timeframe when you consider what it’s capable of. With Ribbit, I finally have a bridge between the virtual and real worlds. The marrying of the Ribbit and Lucid Platforms will change the way people think, create and communicate.”
• Romin K. Irani, creator of Save a Life: “Life-saving blood donations and supplies are a complicated issue. Winning the Ribbit Killer App Challenge will allow me to further develop Save a Life — pairing the “need” location with the communication and life-saving supply-side efforts of numerous dislocated agencies — initially in India, where we know the key organizations, and then globally. The Ribbit platform not only helps streamline the supply and dynamic notification processes, but empowers individuals to more easily get involved in making these life-saving interactions.”
• Chuck Freedman, Director of Developer Platform at Ribbit: “With a developer community over 12,000 strong, so many of the amazing applications built using Ribbit’s rich communications service remain un-exposed to the public. The Killer App Challenge hasn’t just exposed what’s actually built on the platform, but showcases the incredible talent of many developers in our community. Our goal has always been to put out an innovative platform which allows developers to enhance their applications with Ribbit in the most logical and efficient way,” said Freedman. “Hearing that the winning developers were up and running, and in some cases, fully integrated with Ribbit in under 20 minutes, really validates what we set out to do. We’ll take great pride seeing these applications deployed by the winning developers as revenue generating and community improving applications.”
• Raymond Lee, Director of Strategy and Business Development for Ribbit: “Ribbit is drawing elite developers from around the world who understand they can now quickly enhance applications and optimize business processes with rich, integrated communication features. By directly integrating voice and communication, developers are now able to bring new levels of innovation, efficiency and value to their customers. We couldn’t be more pleased by the range of creative applications our developer community has presented.”

Please visit the Killer App Challenge page where you will find screenshots and other bits of interesting data on both the developer and the winning application.

Congrats to all our winners and thank you to everyone who participated in the challenge. We saw some really creative and innovative applications, and know this is only the beginning based on what we have coming down the pipeline next.  <end shameless teaser>

Tags: API, contest, contest winners, development, Killer App Challenge, open API, Ribbit, Ribbit API

Ribbit’s Killer App Challenge Launches at Adobe MAX

Monday, November 17th, 2008 | located in Conferences/Events, Contests, Platform | No Comments »

Ribbit is pleased to announce our $100,000 Killer App Challenge, a chance for developers to create the next killer application on the Ribbit open platform for integrating voice communications in applications, web sites, and communities.

The competition begins immediately and will conclude in March 2009. Cash prizes totaling $100,000 will be awarded to the most compelling, creative, and useful application in each of five development categories, as well as a grand prize for the best overall entrant.

The Killer App Challenge is an unparalleled opportunity for creative professionals, developers and entrepreneurs to have their ideas launched on this global stage. We’re looking for the kind of apps that will improve interactions between business and user, help brands better interact with their audiences, and evolve social networking into the next level of essential communication..

The five contest categories are:

1. Media, Advertising and Entertainment — Add unprecedented interactive value to a media campaign by captivating a target audience through rich voice capabilities
2. Social Networking and Communication — Create a Web 3.0 preview application that connects people via Open Telephony
3. Business and Productivity — Integrate voice and rich communication features into a business application workflow
4. Carrier, Network, or ISP Integration — Integrate innovative voice capabilities into an existing cable, carrier, mobile network, or ISP
5. Wildcard — Create an application that uses voice to improve the usability of any device or interface, from vending machines to ticket kiosks

Developers retain full ownership of their applications, so even those applications not chosen as a contest winner can be deployed to deliver exciting new voice capabilities to customers, partners and employees.

For a complete description of the rules and prizes of the Ribbit Killer App Challenge, visit www.ribbit.com/killerappchallenge

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