Voice-Based Marketing Automation Blog

Groupon API Phone Mashup For Deal of the Day By Phone

Groupon is a startup based in our own backyard so when they recently released their API we figured we’d give it a try. The mashup is pretty simple. You can call (312) 469-0907 and you’ll hear Groupon Chicago’s deal of the day.

You can download …

Triple Crown of Telephony – Ifbyphone Receives 3 Awards

Three is better than one, especially when it comes to awards. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve just received three distinct industry awards. Here they are:

1. SpeechTech Speech Luminary Award
Through lower-cost, hosted, cloud-based telephony solutions, Irv Shapiro and his company, Ifbyphone, have …

12 Mashup Examples Using Our Phone API

You can build a lot of neat phone mashups with Ifbyphone’s phone mashup API.
Here are some mashups our team has built:

Twitter
Use Twitter as a screen-pop tool to see who is calling via a direct message on Twitter before you answer the …

Integrate Phone Calls With Google Maps

Some people can look at a spreadsheet and process all of the data within it. Other people do better understanding data when it is presented verbally. Still others process the data better when they can see it in a more visual presentation.

At Ifbyphone, we …

Ifbyphone Reverse Lookup Mashup with WhitePages.com API

At Ifbyphone we are all about business. Well, businesses rather. Our product offerings, such as our recent announcement of our Virtual Call Center, help small to medium businesses get the most out of their phones. The thing that really sets us apart is not …

Ifbyphone Creates iPhone Developer ‘Stimulus Package’

Chicago, March 3, 2009 — Ifbyphone today announced an economic stimulus package for iPhone application developers. The most innovative iPhone application developers will each receive $1,000 from Ifbyphone for the development of an Ifbyphone-to-iPhone mashup that is selected and released by Ifbyphone on the iTunes …

3 Phone Mashups Examples

I wanted to link back to some Phone Mashups examples we’ve featured on the blog. One is fun, one is practical, and one is actually being used by a few customers.

FUN: Yelp.com Phone Mashup - Get reviews over the phone.

PRACTICAL: Phone-2-Directions Phone Mashup…

Preferred Telephony Solution For Ad Agencies and Web Designers

For a while now we’ve been saying that Ifbyphone makes developing telephony solutions as easy as building websites. The idea is that anyone who can develop a website can easily and quickly develop a custom telephony solution to integrate voice into advertising and marketing campaigns. …

Cool Open Source Telephony Technology at Web 2.0 Expo

Serdar Yegulalp at InformationWeek recently wrote,

“the award for Single Coolest Thing Done With Open Source at the Web 2.0 show has to go to Ifbyphone.”

What is the “Coolest Thing” they are referring to? Well, as the article puts it:

“Enter Ifbyphone, a …

Mashing

As previously mentioned in this space, we recently announced our PhoneMashup initiative aimed at getting developers involved with our product. Every day we’re getting more developers signing up and doing interesting things with our services.

We want to make sure we’re providing the best …

Introducing: Phone Mashups

At EComm 2008 our CEO, Irv Shapiro announced our new initiative aimed at allowing developers easy access to our technology (see mentions at Information Week, MacWorld, Thomas Howe, VOIP Weblog, and VOIP News). We are offering free accounts to developers …

MashUps on the Up

In a recent NY Times article we learn that Microsoft, whose philosophy for the last 25 years has been to build “shrink-wrapped software,” is slowly moving towards the Web 2.0 side of the Net and introducing MashUps into its development plan. While it’s hardly a …