Ribbit Rocks at SXSW Interactive Festival

March 20th, 2009 by Kristie Wells | located in Awards, Conferences/Events, Platform, Ribbit CRM | trackback

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.

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