Saturday, May 23, 2009

Podcast on Mobile and VoIP Technologies

My good friend Garrick Van Buren was nice enough to involve me in a conversation on mobile software and VoIP technologies. We had a lot of fun talking about where the market is today and where we see it going in the next 5 years. Exciting times are ahead for all of use in this space. Details of the discussion can be found on his Podcast blog at:

http://www.firstcrackpodcast.com/

Enjoy!

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Adhearsion Sandbox Rocks

I presented in April at the Ruby User's of Minnesota (RUM) on creating voice enabled applications using the Adhearsion sandbox and another service called tropo.com. Slides from the presentation can be found here. Some people I know were unable to attend or unable to follow along during the demo, so I thought it might be fun to put together a quick screencast of the steps to get yourself working in the sandbox. The sandbox is completely free and provided by Jay and Jason at Adhearsion.com to give developers like us an opportunity to get our feet wet and play with Adhearsion. Enjoy the screencast! It's amazing just how fast one can get up and running and hope you have an opportunity to start creating voice enabled applications in the future. There's a lot of potential customers out there using plain old cell phones and the cost to implement voice enabled applications using Open Source frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Adhearsion is a small fraction of proprietary solutions.