tag:,2009:/1/tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14439- 2009-11-23T00:42:03Z Comments for What Can Voice Do For You? Ribbit Announces Winners of KillerApps Challenge Movable Type 4.23-en tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14439 2009-03-31T14:00:17Z 2009-03-31T05:44:26Z What Can Voice Do For You? Ribbit Announces Winners of KillerApps Challenge 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... Frederic Lardinois ribbit_logo_mar09.pngRibbit, 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.

]]> Ribbit opened up its API about one and a half years ago, but even though the company was quickly bought up by British Telecom in July 2008, it was only after this year's SXSW, where Ribbit won the Innovative Web Technologies category in Microsoft's BizSpark Accelerator, that it appeared on our radar again.

We spoke to the Ribbit team yesterday, and while Ribbit is currently focused on providing SDK's and toolkits for Adobe's Flex and Flash platforms, it is also currently testing a RESTful API in private beta, which will soon allow developers to integrate Ribbit's platform into numerous other programming languages as well.

Winners

Here are the winners of the five categories in Ribbit's KillerApps challenge:

Media, Advertising, Entertainment: Lucid Viewer

ribbit_lucid_small.pngLucitd Viewer is an authoring tool that allows developers to create interesting, immersive experiences. This demo here, for example, shows a 3D, Google StreetView-like view of a street in Rome, with the ability to call up stores directly from the Flash interface through Ribbit's service. Lucid Viewer also won the Grand Price in Ribbit's KillerApps contest.

Business: Sugared Frog

Similar to Ribbit's own integration with Salesforce, Sugared Frog integrates Ribbit with SugarCRM. With the help of Sugared Frog, users of SugarCRM's open source solution can use Sugared Frog to organize their voicemail, and dictate notes and memos right from their mobile phones.

Social Networking and Communication: Save A Life

Save a Life is an interesting Adobe AIR application that allows you to quickly reach a group of friends or community members by phone. Currently, the application focuses on blood donations (you can download the application here), though the program could be used for other donation campaigns or emergency services as well.

Breakthrough: CYHAA

CYHAA won Ribbit's free-form 'breakthrough' category. CYHAA, which stands for Control Your Home, Anytime, Anywhere allows users to control their smart home devices with their voice right from their phones.

]]> tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14439-comment:131636 Comment from ITrush on 2009-03-31 ITrush http://www.itrush.com CYHAA is really cool.. I really love the idea of controlling those devices using your own voice through phones.

]]> 2009-03-31T14:13:47Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14439-comment:131648 Comment from Doug on 2009-03-31 Doug Where is the fifth category? I only see 4 winners?

]]> 2009-03-31T16:56:32Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14439-comment:131653 Comment from Sophie on 2009-03-31 Sophie To Doug-

Here is a list of the winners from all 5 categories

http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/31/ribbit-announces-winners-of-its-killer-mobile-apps-contest/

http://ca.sys-con.com/node/900506

Looks like the "Simplephone" is missing on this one.

]]> 2009-03-31T17:14:43Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14439-comment:131656 Comment from DJ on 2009-03-31 DJ Awesome... something I was looking for... Thank You!


RWW: A+

]]> 2009-03-31T17:36:19Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14439-comment:131659 Comment from Kristie Wells on 2009-03-31 Kristie Wells http://ww.ribbit.com Hi Frederic,

Just wanted to clarify Ribbit is NOT a VOIP platform.

What Ribbit offers is a rich communications platforms that ties voice, messaging and other forms of communications together.

In addition to the five winners in our Killer App Challenge, another good example of this is the Consumers Price application a developer built using the API from Ribbit and Best Buy. Voice is one component, then he added in SMS and email too (in addition to Flickr and Twitter feeds).

I think it a critical distinction as we don't want to limit developers to build just voice enabled applications. We want them to get creative in the ways they communicate with their users and the Ribbit API empowers them to step outside the box and build something really kick ass.

]]> 2009-03-31T18:02:03Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14439-comment:131712 Comment from Runescapegold on 2009-03-31 Runescapegold http://www.4urpower.com that is great! I like it!

]]> 2009-04-01T03:19:54Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009://1.14439-comment:131826 Comment from jesseme on 2009-04-02 jesseme http://www.technology-guide.co.uk/post/2009/04/01/thinknavi-t7-gps-device.aspx thanks for sharing the information and nice article.

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