really cool demo by Twilio

Twilio steals the show at New York Tech Meetup with this live demo.

You usually tend to think twice, or more before giving a live demo because that's when it hurts when things go wrong - and that's when they usually do.

Check out the demo by Twilio developer to large tech audience.

Watch live streaming video from nytechmeetup at livestream.com

telephony in the cloud

One of the first services to offer hosted telecommunication services by exposing an API for developers to create telephony services was Ribbit - developer.ribbit.com. Ribbit offers a Flex SDK to develop telephony services.

It is interresting to see a lot of startups recently offering cloud based approach to telephony services with even simpler API's that give even the most telco-unexperienced developers the tools to create cool telephony services.

Examples of telco in the cloud services:

ringful.com
www.twilio.com
www.tropo.com
tringme.com

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