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Ribbit and Sprout Partner to Seed Online Engagement Campaigns with Voice
June 2, 2009
TMC Presents Ribbit with 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award
May 20, 2009
Ribbit Sparks Global Communication Innovation With Killer App Challenge
March 31, 2009
Ribbit Joins Circus Mashimus at SXSW Interactive Festival
February 25, 2009
Ribbit for Salesforce Named "Best Mobile App of 2008"
February 23, 2009
Ribbit Launches the World's First Platform for "Programmable Telephony"
November 14, 2008
Ribbit's Killer App Challenge Launches at Adobe MAX
November 13, 2008
Ribbit Announces Channel Partner Program, Launches 2.0 Release of Ribbit for Salesforce CRM
November 3, 2008
Ribbit Joins Oracle's CRM On Demand Inner Circle
September 22, 2008
BT acquires Ribbit
July 29, 2008
Ribbit for Salesforce Heats Up Vertical Markets
June 17, 2008
Ribbit Gives A "Voice" To Enterprise Applications
May 6, 2008
Ribbit Developers to "Spawn" New Voiceware Applications
March 14, 2008
Ribbit Co-Founder Crick Waters to Deliver Keynote at Inaugural Emerging Communications Conference
March 5, 2008
Silicon Valley's First Phone Company Unveils Flagship Consumer Service
January 28, 2008
Ribbit Demonstrates Salesforce Application at Tour de Force
January 16, 2008
Ribbit Named Finalist for Two 2007 Crunchies Awards
January 4, 2008
Silicon Valley's "First Phone Company" Triples the Size of its Developer Community
December 21, 2007
Valley-Based Ribbit, Inc. Unveils Technology, Team and Business Model for Creating and Serving the New Telephony Marketplace
December 17, 2007

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Ribbit announces winners of its killer mobile apps competition
March 31, 2009
Ribbit, the mobile development platform owned by BT, announced the winners of its $100,000 Killer App Challenge today, recognizing teams that most effectively integrated voice functionality into apps, web sites and mobile communities... More »
What Can Voice Do For You? Ribbit Announces Winners of KillerApps Challenge
March 31, 2009
Ribbit, the VOIP platform that was bought by British Telecom last year, announced the winners of its $100,000 KillerApps challenge today. The contest was obviously meant to stimulate interest in Ribbit's APIs among developers, and judging from the line-up of winning applications, a lot of developers came up with highly creative ways of using Ribbit's platform in their apps... More »
Ribbit: Bringing Voice to Interactivity Online
March 20, 2009
Ribbit was acquired by BT last summer. In this SXSW interview, Jolie O'Dell chats with Raymond Lee of Ribbit and the two discuss the shrinking divide between computers and mobile devices, the need to bring telephony to interactivity online, and the future of brain chips... More »
Ribbit Makes Best Buy More Social and Mobile
March 13, 2009
Ribbit has partnered with Best Buy to display yet another way in which its phone service can be integrated for a unique solution that makes so much sense in hindsight. Using Best Buy's recently released Remix API, Ribbit has created an application Called Consumers Price that allows consumers to make shopping on Best Buy a little bit more social, and a lot easier to do... More »
JP Rangaswami · BT Design Discusses Enterprise Challenges
March 11, 2009
JP Rangaswami, Managing Director for Strategy & Innovation at BT Design, discusses the cultural challenges of applying 2.0 technologies in the enterprise from an executive perspective. Growing social and intellectual capital in companies is becoming easier thanks to modern technology, international boundaries are becoming less of an issue... More »
Build an AIR Application and Compete in the Ribbit $100,000 Killer App Challenge
December 10, 2008
Ribbit announced a potentially lucrative new contest called the $100,000 Killer App Challenge. This contest will award $100k in prize money to developers in five categories who submit applications that use Ribbit technology. This is a great opportunity to build an application using Flash, Flex, and/or Adobe AIR that not only shows off your developer skills, but also presents the chance to put a few dollars in your pocket... More »
Ribbit launches its web phone platform
November 17, 2008
Ribbit, the web phone company recently acquired by BT for $105 million, has opened its developer platform to the general public. Although the Mountain View, Calif. company makes useful applications like the recently-updated Ribbit for Salesforce... More »
Ribbit Launches out of Beta
November 17, 2008
Ribbit, which was recently acquired by BT, today rolled out its developer platform out of beta at the Adobe Max conference. Ribbits extensive APIs allow you to integrate voice communications into business applications such as Salesforce.com... More »
BT and Ribbit Launch Platform for Building Web-Based VoIP Apps
November 17, 2008
What's the easiest and cheapest way to launch a web-based VoIP solution? It might just be Ribbit and British Telecom's new VoIP platform, which enables developers to create and deploy a web based VoIP application... More »
Ribbit: 'Our API is open to all!'
November 17, 2008
Ribbit has now opened up its developers platform for the public. The platform boasts of enabling developers to add phone capabilities to the applications they create. The service had been behind the private beta curtain for quite some time... More »
Ribbit's New Platform Launched; Ribbit has launched their new platform at Adobe Max today
November 17, 2008
My take: Open platforms are becoming more and more the new way of doing business. Open networks on the other hand don't yet exist really, other than the public internet. While carriers "speak" open, they really are not that "open." And for good reason... More »
Ribbit for Salesforce is Released
May 6, 2008
Ribbit has officially released its "voiceware" application that integrates with Salesforce.com. I have been using Ribbit with Salesforce for ~3 weeks now and have been pleased. More important than anything for me was simply getting my voicemail digitally... More »
Ribbit Launches Voice Capabilities for Salesforce
May 6, 2008
Once upon a time, in a career far, far away, I worked in marketing communications for a Fortune 500 company. CRM software, such as it was then, consisted mainly of managing your business cards and taking some notes, so it's an industry I've stayed interested in as it's grown and evolved... More »
Ribbit for Salesforce debuts
May 6, 2008
Ribbit for Salesforce debuted today. First demonstrated at the company's launch last December, Ribbit for Salesforce has been in beta since, at 70 businesses. It's now available to all US customers of salesforce.com, via the salesforce.com AppExchange. Prices start at $25/month with a 30 day free trial... More »
Ribbit for Salesforce makes sweet sounds for enterprise users
May 5, 2008
Ribbit, which bills itself as "Silicon Valley's first phone company," has been getting a lot of positive attention. The Mountain View startup has created a platform that allows developers to integrate users' phones into their web applications with minimal fuss. Tomorrow, Ribbit plans to launch Ribbit for Salesforce, the first big showcase of what its platform can do... More »
Ribbit in Salesforce: Taking Telephony to the Next Level?
May 5, 2008
Ribbit is finally launching (in the official sense) its Salesforce application, enabling users to make phone calls from directly within the application as an integrated feature that aligns with all the other Salesforce contact-management tools... More »
Ribbit innovates, Salesforce wins
May 2, 2008
A flash of brilliance has combined Ribbit's newly released Amphibian voiceware, with Salesforces to allow SF users to update client information and weld voice and data messages into their work flow... More »
Under the Radar Winners Announced
March 20, 2008
Under the Radar is happy to announce the category winners for our Business of Web Apps conference. It was a great event with great presenting companies - thanks to all our startups who got up on stage and told us why they're great. Business Calls - Judges Choice: Ribbit... More »
Ribbit Hatches an Amphibian, A Web 2.0 VoIP Solution
January 31, 2008
Talking about developers, check out Air Phone, an iPhone for your desktop. Built using the Ribbit API, I think it will be hit among Amphibian users. The Amphibian will easily work with your favorite webtop, like iGoogle or facebook... I know I will have that Air Phone... More »
DEMO 08: My Favorites
January 31, 2008
Ribbit - As an online phone company which enables you to use your mobile phone via the Web. It also offers widgets which can be added to you start page thus putting your mobile contacts in constant view and at your fingertips... More »
Are Land Lines Doomed?
January 30, 2008
DEMO participants Toktumi and Ribbit worked to prove their versions of the future of communications by showing products including software tools to organize and connect calls, voice mail and conferencing, as well as solutions to merge and integrate mobile communications with online social sites... More »
5 Demo 2008 APIs
January 30, 2008
Ribbit's new Amphibian product for managing voicemail through an internet interface is based on Adobe Flex and AIR technology and has 2500 developers signed up working on interesting extensions such as an iPhone on the desktop... More »
Ribbit, iPhone and an Obituary For HD DVD
January 30, 2008
Here's a heads up on Ribbit, a company that has a telephony platform that combines mobile phones and the web. It has published its API and spawned a developer community around itself... Ribbit has been very innovative in its courting of external developers. As such it may get traction and compete strongly... More »
4 Big Themes at This Year's DEMO
January 30, 2008
DEMO 2008 brought 78 companies to the stage for six minutes each. It's speed dating for venture capitalists, and a testament to the short attention spans of today's market. After not quite three days, here are four themes:

We have too many devices

A raft of new entrants want to integrate all my friends, phones and content, regardless of where I am or what I'm using...Ribbit puts phones everywhere... More »
Ribbit's Amphibian consumer telephony app is just the tip of the iceberg
January 30, 2008
It has completely rethought telephony within the context of our modern world. Ribbit offers a telephony platform that enables developers to craft innovative telephony solutions within current applications, and also create completely novel applications. A good demonstration of what can be done with this platform is Ribbit's Amphibian service.

But the impressive thing is that Ribbit also offers developers an e-commerce system that lets them charge users for their applications. Developers need only focus on creating great apps, Ribbit provides them with the e-commerce infrastructure. Brilliant... More »
Rafe's picks from Demo 2008: Lots of doubles, no home runs
January 30, 2008
It's a powerful technology that will allow developers to do cool things with voice services, without dealing with traditional telephone switches and cantankerous phone companies... Amphibian does new stuff like pull up the social network profile pages of people when they call you. Creepy. But cool... More »
Ribbit Allows Users to Receive Mobile Phone Calls Online Anywhere
January 30, 2008
Ribbit, a Silicon Valley startup has just launched Amphibian, an online platform that acts as an extension to your mobile phone. You can send and receive calls, check your voicemail, and much more, all without requiring your mobile phone in-hand. All you need is access to the web... More »
Demo08: Sipping from the Pitchstream, Morning of Day 1
January 29, 2008
The software will also pull in "opensocial" feeds for the user while you're talking to them. Ribbit claims thousands of developers who've used their API to create new Web phones and other utilities; one created a beautiful iPhone interface. The company didn't mention pricing, but it looks like a very useful service... More »
Mobility onslaught on IT explodes
January 29, 2008
...Basic Amphibian services will be available to consumers for free. That means lots of your employees will get to play with it, learn to depend on it and then toss it your way to help Amphibian jump into mainstream corporate IT... More »
Ribbit: Taking Telephony to the Next Level with Amphibian
January 29, 2008
Ribbit has released another end-user application called the Amphibian. If you were impressed by the Chalkboard phone, then you will be wowed by Amphibian...It is just the sleekness of the interface and how all the different functionalities are seamlessly integrated that makes Ribbit beautiful... More »
Merging Your Mobile and Online Worlds
January 29, 2008
...One of its coolest features blends Web 2.0 features with caller ID--Ribbit calls it Caller ID 2.0... So you not only know who's calling, but you know what they've been up to by seeing what they've Twittered or by looking at their status message.

I happened to be sitting next to Gary Morgenthaler, general partner at Morgenthaler Ventures... He confirmed my own first impressions when he turned to me and said "That's really cool!" after Ribbit's demonstration... More »
DEMO: Ribbit allows you to answer a phone call on a web site
January 29, 2008
You can click on a phone icon on a web site and actually use the mouse buttons to dial a phone number...You can also answer calls to your mobile phone via the phone embedded on the web page...This works because you forward your mobile phone to Ribbit, which treats it as data that it can route...The application is code-named Amphibian because it can thrive in different environments... More »
SproutBuilder - Using a Flex Application to Create Flash Content
January 29, 2008
Another great thing about Sprout is the way they're partnering with 3rd parties to offer components. They will have a Meebo IM component, a Ribbit phone component, a Yahoo Maps component and others that let users very easily add advanced functionality to their Flash applications... More »
Sprout: The Online WYSIWYG Editor for Flash
January 29, 2008
...Sprout overcomes this limitation in part by providing a library of "components" that can be integrated into a given creation. The company has lined up general components such as video, slideshows and RSS feeds in addition to components from 3rd party web services such as Meebo, Yahoo Maps, PollDaddy and Ribbit... More »
2008Watch: Ribbit Spawns Its First Consumer Telephony App
January 29, 2008
Ribbit is on my SVW 2008Watch list. It is a very impressive company with a spot-on business strategy and technology for leading the telephony sector in enterprise, and in consumer sectors...Amphibian provides a mobile phone user with unprecedented control over their incoming and outgoing calls...Ribbit has built a totally new type of telephone company with a flexibility to offer services and applications that weren't possible before... More »
DEMO08 General Session 1
January 29, 2008
With Amphibian you can finally - Manage your mobile voicemail like email on your computer and on your mobile phone;...Experience Caller ID 2.0 - dip into the social web and know not just who is calling but what the caller has been doing; Have scores of web developers working at internet speed building new phone applications for you. This rocks my world... More »
Launchpad and Flameout
January 29, 2008
Ribbit? A web voice system that is "an extension of my mobile phone" - looks like it does nice organizing of calls...Intriguing...this one's getting a lot of buzz, in part because it has the potential to inspire an ecosystem around it. Looking forward to trying it out when I get access to the beta... More »
DEMO 08: Lance Handicaps the Products
January 29, 2008
Mobile and personal web communications together. Can answer your mobile phone anywhere, including on a web page. Ribbit Amphibian Desktop. Ribbit messaging is rich. It has voicemail as text messages, which makes them searchable...This is cool. I like the centralized management of my cell phone calls and messages. The voicemail system on Sprint is terrible. Maybe this would be better... More »
Squawk Box Jan 29
January 29, 2008
Amphibian is a consumer telephony application that marries the web and the handset. It sports features like visual voice mail, drag and drop call routing, and something they've called Caller ID 2.0, which fetches information about callers from the social network, as the call is coming in. It's also extensible by third parties. From where I sit, this is a tremendously ambitious project... More »
Ribbit and the Edge of the Network
January 29, 2008
Erik's wonderful post today jogged my memory about Ribbit and the edge of the network. In Erik's post, he's asked to describe the difference between his service, Lypp, and Ribbit, and gives his honest appraisal of the environment in which edge applications live:

The edge of the network is a nasty place. Bandwidth issues, carrier packet shaping, lack of end user control and costly redundancy solutions make it nearly impossible to deliver a predictable and reliable telephony service.

Ribbit's API is an Adobe Flex API, which at first gave me pause, but upon reflection, I like. Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are the future of desktop applications, and although there are still many choices for which technology will win (Flex, Ajax, etc), there's no doubt it's going to be one of them. Given that, there are lots of programmers who will know and understand this programming approach - good to see they now have an option... More »
Ribbit Looks Really Cool
January 29, 2008
Just checking out a new tool for managing your messaging: Ribbit...I can't wait to try this. There are so many things here that I'm already using in one form or another it would be great to consolidate them all into a single application controlled by a single UI accessible from any web browser or web enabled mobile phone... More »
Ribbit VS Lypp Comparison - Is It Fair?
January 29, 2008
Both companies should be applauded for developing Voice 2.0 platforms... In addition to just sending and receiving calls, Ribbit is packed full of interesting features such as the ability to see a social network like profile of the person calling you and voice mail eavesdropping with barrage...Honestly, the only thing I see that is similar between the two is that they are both pushing the envelope of what is possible with Voice 2.0 services and doing a darn good job at it to boot!... More »
Amphibian, The First Service from Ribbit
January 29, 2008
I can say the number of features they offer is impressive, together with a new approach in offering some services to the final user... The feeling I'm getting from Ribbit is "integration", something that makes me think that everything I need to communicate is there, at my fingertips... More »
GigaNET DEMO Coverage
January 28, 2008
DEMO 2008 kicked off in Palm Desert, Calif., today, and has already yielded a week's worth of news...Among the launchings and unveilings, Ribbit announced its voice-web product Amphibian... More »
Ribbit vs. Lypp
January 28, 2008
I have had a few people ask me to describe the differences between Ribbit and the Lypp API...First let me begin by saying I know Ted Griggs and I respect him greatly, he has a great track record for building innovative companies that push the boundaries of technology and communications... More »
Tech #2: Amphibian
January 28, 2008
Recently, Ribbit - a newly established company in the Silicon Valley - launched a technology called Amphibian that allows people to combine their online life with their mobile phone number, and this unique combination reveals to be a totally breathtaking experience... More »
Ribbit to attempt a single interface to all voice apps
January 28, 2008
My biggest problem with the large proliferation of messaging and VOIP applications is that in order to communicate with everyone on their favorite, I have an ever increasing number of resource hogs running. Ribbit has promised to conquer the communication apps bloat with an new product called Amphibian... More »
Ribbit playing the role of Frog Prince with web-based phone "Amphibian"
January 28, 2008
Amphibian is also a very good example of why I continue to be really excited about what AIR offers... AIR isn't about replacing what you're doing inside the browser. It's just another option for your users that's easy to create because the programming technologies for each platform are the same. The guys at Ribbit are showing that perfectly. And as cheesy as it sounds, I think this frog is close to finding the proverbial princess and turning into a prince of Silicon Valley... More »
Amphibian: One (more) phone to rule them all
January 28, 2008
Startup Ribbit is preparing to launch in impressive looking internet telephony service in a few months. The company's Amphibian phone service provides a ton of features, but in a nutshell you could describe Amphibian as a cross between Google's GrandCentral and Skype with a few extra bits thrown in like an open developer platform and some social networking features... More »
DEMO 2008 kicks off today
January 28, 2008
That's right - the annual new products show is kicking off today. Over the weekend, Ribbit VP Don Thorson pinged me to tell me that they would be showing. TechCrunch and GigaOm are both giving previews of the Ribbit offering... More »
Ribbit Amphibian
January 28, 2008
I'm sure by now most of you have heard of Ribbit and their Flex based VOIP service... One of its main features is that it allows you to aggregate all of your different phone numbers into one rich dashboard experience. Another feature I found particularly interesting was the ability to gather a person's "feeds" (flickr, their blog rss, LinkedIn etc...) while you are talking to them... The best part for us is that it's still Flash based so the developer community can build additional services and make them available through the Ribbit market space... More »

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