Archive for the ‘Developers’ Category

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

When Desiging Websites or Applications, Think About Your User

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 | located in Developers, user experience | No Comments »

While at the CaT conference in New York last month, we caught up with Brendan Lee, Loni Peristere and Juan Bonfante for a little chat on tapping into technology (Augmented Reality or otherwise) to create the best user experience on your websites and applications.

I love when creatives and technologists get together. The users win.

Tags: application design, augmented reality, CaT conference, design, Ribbit, roundarch, user experience, website design, zoic studios

Killer App Challenge Winner: SimplePhone

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 | located in Applications, Developers, Platform | No Comments »

Alain Mowad caught up with Joseph Farrar, the Ribbit Killer App Challenge Winner in the Carrier/Network/ISP Integration category at the CTIA conference in Las Vegas this past week, and asked Joe to share his experiences developing his application on the Ribbit platform:

Joe’s application, SimplePhone integrates the Ribbit platform and Broadsoft’s BroadWorks API, and is skinned and deployed on SimpleSignal. It can function as a stand-alone Flash phone and can also be linked with BroadWorks XSP accounts to access BroadWorks user profile feature set. For example, the user has set his DND (Do-Not-Disturb) notification on his Broadsoft account which is supported on the Ribbit Flash Phone.

For more information on SimplePhone, please visit us online. If you would like to learn more about extending communications within your website or application, be sure to check out our Developer Portal.

Tags: API, broadsoft, broadworks API, challenge winner, developer portal, Flash, joe developer, killer app, Killer App Challenge, profile feature, Ribbit, simplephone

SayHear.Org, a Ribbit Powered ‘voice your vote’ App goes live

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 | located in Applications, Developers, Platform | 1 Comment »

SayHear.org is a very cool web app that PJ Onori and the Creative Agency, Gershoni built using an AJAX UI and the Ribbit API for voice features. We simply adore this interactive app for its elegance and resourcefulness given that this election is poised to be historic with record-breaking numbers of voter turnout.

Callers dial a the number associated with their party affiliation and leave a message on why they decided to vote for their candidate.

* 805.456.5763: Barack Obama
* 805.456.5764: John McCain
* 805.456.5765: 3rd Party
* 805.456.5766: Not Voting

Once they do this, they can hop on over to www.sayhear.org to listen to what the rest of the country has to say in real time.

Tags: Developers, gershoni, open API, PJ Onori, Ribbit, ribbit platform, sayhear.org, vote

Ribbit in May

Sunday, May 4th, 2008 | located in Developers, Platform, Ribbit CRM, Ribbit Mobile | No Comments »

We’ve been waiting for May for a long time. This month we are officially rolling out a new product and we can’t wait to get Ribbit in the hands of customers to see their response. We’re holding our breath a little, but at the same time we think we know what’s going to happen and we’re very excited.

Also in May, we’ll be speaking at a whole new type of forum when we showcase Ribbit at the San Francisco New Tech Meetup a lively gathering of developers, entrepreneurs, investors and cool companies with new ideas to share. If you’re in the Bay Area on May 13, don’t miss it. Chuck Freedman and other Ribbit folks will be on hand; be sure to say hi.

Here are a few other things on the agenda:

• Telling you more about Amphibian, which we are already using here at Ribbit, and which is getting ready to move…well, out of the pond.
• Delivering the Ribbit Voice Components for Flash pre-release to 50 revved-up developers.
• Meeting with tech innovators in Silicon Valley to talk about Amphibian and hear their thoughts about development and more (let us know if you’re in the area and want to be involved).
• Seeing how close we can get to adding our 5000th developer (we added #4000 last week!).

Stay tuned!

Don Thorson

Tags: Appexchange, Ribbit, ribbit for salesforce, SaaS

Your Innovation on the Ribbit Idea Wall

Friday, April 25th, 2008 | located in Developers, Platform, Ribbit Mobile | No Comments »

Earlier this week we launched Ribbit’s Idea Wall. On the site you can post an idea on how to use the Ribbit voice platform in ways we wouldn’t have thought possible. Included on the site are the ability to rate the best ideas, share via email, post the idea on a social network such as Delicious or Facebook, and even opt-in to build it. Ribbit’s Idea Wall is your community and we want you to show the world how to think of voice in a totally different way. As cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead once said “A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”. Post an idea today at http://ideawall.ribbit.com

Here are a couple of “Ideas” that we think are truly innovative:

“My company has a web program which handle customer database. Technical supporters check customer’s phone number on it, and then call him/her by hardware phone manually. So I have a plan to simplify this procedure. I will develop a flash VoIP client to call customers on web browser by clicking phone number. Therefore, I need the Voice Components for Flash. :-)”
http://ideawall.ribbit.com/idea/flash_voip_client

“I have a music site, where I publish my songs. I am looking for a singer and maybe this application will allow visitors of the site to sing over my instrumental tracks, so I can test the singers with my songs without having them coming personally.”
http://ideawall.ribbit.com/idea/chosing_a_singer

Tags: Developers, Flash, idea wall, innovation, Platform, Ribbit

Top 10 Things to Know about Ribbit

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 | located in Developers, Ribbit Mobile, SmartSwitch | No Comments »

1. Number of tests run by Ribbit ops to ensure uptime and availability: more than 10,000 (every day).
2. Amazing thing that makes Ribbit what it really is: a proprietary Lucent-tested , Class 5 certified, industry complaint softswitch (the Ribbit SmartSwitch) that’s optimized for next-gen communications and effortless integration into telephony partner infrastructures. Whew.
3. Probability of finding a member of the Ribbit team here in the office at 3:00 am or on a weekend: 71.4% (but don’t worry. It’s because we like it here).
4. Average number of people teaming up in a Ribbit office: 4 (we’re moving soon).
5. Number of methods our API currently delivers for talking to the Ribbit service: more than 40. These include making calls, receiving calls, listening to, reading, recording, and sending voice messages, messaging contacts, all as ready-to-go scripts. Simples methods include makeCall, answerCall, playMessage, sendMessage, and addContacts. Fun!
6. Companies on our founding team’s professional pedigrees: Northern Telecom, AT&T, Cisco, MCI, NorthPoint Communications, Yahoo!, Polycom, Apple, and many more.
7. Number of strategic customer, press or partner meetings held at Ribbit in a typical week: 11. Ratio of these meetings to number of employees in our company: 1: 3.8 (it’s quite a pace).
8. Number of frog effigies currently in residence at Ribbit headquarters: 53 (and counting) (plus one very strange little dragon-like thing).
9. Things we can’t wait to get out there: Ribbit for Salesforce, Amphibian, and the Ribbit Store.
10. Why we do it. Because we believe that the world needs a new kind of phone company. And we’re here to build it for you. Thanks for staying tuned from all of us at Ribbit.