Developers's archive
Ribbit Launches out of Beta
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, CRM systems, call center applications, and even social networks. 
Ribbit launched its programming platform for developers today at the Adobe Max conference. Ribbit likes to call themselves “Silicon Valley’s First Phone Company”. Post-acquisition, BT and Ribbit are taking the platform public with “Bring Your Own Network” which they claim is a telecom industry first. Ribbit said, “Carriers around the globe can tap into the power of the Ribbit platform and active developer community, to create new revenue streams and provide their customers with more choice and function through innovative voice-enabled applications.”
As seen by the charts above, Ribbit has extensive support for industry standards, including SIP, XMPP, XML, Flash, and more. When I spoke with Ribbit Ribbit CEO Ted Griggs he compared their software platform to Amazon’s cloud computing, enabling programmers to build powerful integrated telephony applications for Web sites. A proprietary softswitch (the Ribbit SmartSwitch) mediates communication across protocols, networks and devices. That includes MSN Messenger, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger and Skype. As I have previously written, the Ribbit API functions include call control, authentication, billing, messaging, and more. The Ribbit API abstracts the protocol inter-communication between MSN Messenger, Google Talk, and even Skype. Ribbit has reverse-engineered the Skype protocol to provide the ability for Skype users to receive calls from MSN Messenger users, Yahoo! Messenger users and Google Talk users by leveraging the Ribbit SmartSwitch.
Their most famous application to date is their use of the Ribbit API to integrate with Salesforce, a popular hosted CRM application. Also, Oracle On Demand support in Q1 2009 is forthcoming. Ribbit told me they’ve done a lot of work to simplify and automated the process to make it easier for developers to get started. They explained you can sign up, access the APIs and documenation, and play with them for ‘free’ in a sandbox before deploying and charging for the applications. When I asked if the highly successful iPhone apps sold by third parties on the Apple Store was a good analogy for their applications being developed and sold by developers they agreed that was an appropriate analogy.
BroadSoft and Sylantro Systems are two of the first VoIP providers to leverage the Ribbit platform, which Ribbit now claims has 7,500 developers.
Tags: BroadSoft, developers, Ribbit, Salesforce.com, Sylantro Systems, voip
- Related Entries
- Ribbit Launches -
Dec 17, 2007 - Fonality’s trixbox Pro Unified Agent Edition integrates with Salesforce.com -
Sep 05, 2008 - BroadSoft, Fonality, and ITEXPO news all rolled in one -
Jul 16, 2008 - BroadSoft announces Xtended Voice/VoIP Mashup Contest for Cash -
Jul 08, 2008 - A1 InnovationDays Contest looking for Creative SIP & IMS Apps -
Jul 08, 2008 - BroadSoft and JoeDeveloper.NET Debut Facebook VoIP App -
Apr 22, 2008 - TringMe opens platform API to developers -
Apr 16, 2008 - Packet8 Virtual Office Adds Salesforce.com VoIP Plugin -
Apr 09, 2008 - VoIP & Communications Developers - We’ve heard you… -
Mar 28, 2008 - BroadSoft and C3IP Debuts First-ever VoIP Mashup with ACT! at ITEXPO -
Jan 23, 2008
TrackBacks
| Comments | Tag with del.icio.us | VoIP & Gadgets Blog Home | Permalink: Ribbit Launches out of Beta
Copyright VoIP & Gadgets Blog
A1 InnovationDays Contest looking for Creative SIP & IMS Apps
Received a tip about an interesting VoIP/SIP/IMS developer’s challenge. Relatedly, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention TMC’s Communications Developer show in L.A. California September 16-18th, which is co-located with ITEXPO - one of, if not the best attended communications/telecom show. The Communications Developer show targets developers and focuses on VoIP development, IMS, open source, security, and more. It also includes a SIP Development Workshop.
Now onto the challenge… A1 launched an international developer challenge Mobile communication will be more and more embedded in an overall communication experience which is device-independent and without network borders: services are being introduced daily that connect mobile communication possibilities with the Internet. The international developer challenge “A1 InnovationDays” now invites creative developers addressing the guiding theme “Open Communication by Open Standards” by submitting their ideas that create better communication services.
A1 InnovationDays are sponsored by the Austrian mobile network operator mobilkom austria. The sponsor will reward prizes for the best open source software applications making use of standardised interfaces and protocols such as IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) und SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) ? for instance, a week of powder snow skiiing in the Austrian alps. The sponsor will also announce the possibility to ‘deploy to market’ interesting services together with mobilkom austria. Imagine seeing your SIP/IMS idea deployed on millions of mobile phones. Sweet! 
Moreover, A1 InnovationDays are not only targeting software developers but also generally interested user who may participate in the discussion about future services through their voting and comments. During a period of 7 weeks, all registered users on the website may promote or demote submitted ideas. On August 15, 2008, the best ranked ideas will be judged by a jury. Five ideas will then be selected and invited to the prototyping event, taking place from August 29 ? September 1, 2008 at the monastery Und (Austria, near Vienna). There, each team will develop/enhance/finalise its prototype and present it to the audience and jury.
So what sort of applications are they looking for?
We welcome all types of applications that are novel, benefit possible users and leverage A1 technology enablers and building blocks to deliver a better communication experience. Since at the current stage, the A1 IMS infrastructure is not fully exploited, we are also welcoming ideas that suggest functionalities that yet have to be implemented. The technological focus for this first challenge is SIP and IMS, but nevertheless you can submit ideas that are not dealing with SIP or IMS. Bear in mind that one of the criteria for idea selection is referring to these two technologies.We expect client-side applications implemented with different SIP interpretations (SIP-stacks) as well as server-side applications. The development of server applications will be supported by a dedicated IMS-framework, named “IMS-in-a-Bottle”, since we understand that IMS server-side applications are complex.
We strongly believe that IP-based communication will be even more dominant in a few years. The basis for all applications, whether it’s plain telephony or the fancy remote control of your fridge at home, is a direct, peer-to-peer IP connection. That’s exactly the essence of IMS, the IP Multimedia Subsystem. IMS is the standardized, vendor-, operator- and even network-independent technological platform to realize peer-to-peer communication. SIP, the Session Initiation Protocol is the communication protocol of choice in an IMS infrastructure. Therefore SIP is often called the “http” of IP-based communication.
Detailed information about the developer challenge can be found at: http://www.a1innovations.at/en/static/a1innovationdays
Most if not all of the website is in English, but alas, when I tried to register, it was in Austrian — I assume, since I don’t read Austrian. Might have to use BabelFish or Google Translate if you want to register.
Tags: A1 InnovationDays, applications, apps, developers, IMS, mobilkom austria, SIP, voip
- Related Entries
- VoIP over HSPA in Shanghai is 100% end-to-end IP using IMS -
Sep 28, 2007 - Aepona enables Fixed Mobile Convergence -
Jun 13, 2007 - conaito VoIP SIP SDK 3.0 launches -
Jun 16, 2008 - TringMe offers Enhanced Click-to-Call -
Jun 08, 2008 - sipgate adds SIP-based VoIP support to iPhone -
Jun 04, 2008 - Hmmm… Buy an IP-PBX at Costco -
May 29, 2008 - Asterisk With Office Communications Server 2007 -
May 27, 2008 - Flash-to-SIP Video Calls -
May 27, 2008 - snom m3 DECT SIP Phone Coming to North America -
May 19, 2008 - SIP-based VoIP Wake Up Call Service -
May 16, 2008
TrackBack (0)
| Comments (0) | Tag with del.icio.us | VoIP & Gadgets Blog Home | Permalink: A1 InnovationDays Contest looking for Creative SIP & IMS Apps
Copyright VoIP & Gadgets Blog
Subscribes
Archives
-
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- November 1999
- January 1970