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Ribbit honored in eWeek’s “Top Web Products, Services of 2008″December 12 2008

This has been a phenomenal year for the Ribbit community and today’s inclusion in eWeek’s “Top Web Products, Services of 2008″ just made our day.

eWeek’s annual list honors new Web products or services released in 2008 that have truly made an impact in the IT industry. The list includes some well known heavyweights like Google and Yahoo, but also startups like blist, Poweset and Ribbit whose innovations have proven to be crucial to the consumers and workers who depend on them. We couldn’t have asked for a better Christmas present:

Some of the other innovators in this category are:

  • blist, an easy to create sharable web list
  • Google App Engine
  • Powerset, acquired by Microsoft earlier this year
  • Yahoo! Developer Network
  • Google Health
  • Google Chrome
  • Google Android
  • Yahoo! YOS 1.0
  • Voice and video chat for Google Gmail

A big Thank You to our developer

Ribbit receives rave reviews at Adobe MAX for Platform launch and Killer App ChallengeNovember 20 2008

Ribbit’s Killer App Challenge Launches at Adobe MAXNovember 17 2008

Ribbit is pleased to announce our $100,000 Killer App Challenge, a chance for developers to create the next killer application on the Ribbit open platform for integrating voice communications in applications, web sites, and communities.

The competition begins immediately and will conclude in March 2009. Cash prizes totaling $100,000 will be awarded to the most compelling, creative, and useful application in each of five development categories, as well as a grand prize for the best overall entrant.

The Killer App Challenge is an unparalleled opportunity for creative professionals, developers and entrepreneurs to have their ideas launched on this global stage. We’re looking for the kind of apps that will improve interactions between business and user, help brands better interact with their audiences, and evolve social networking into the next level of essential communication..

The five contest categories are:

  1. Media, Advertising and Entertainment — Add unprecedented interactive value to a media campaign by captivating a target audience through rich voice capabilities
  2. Social Networking and Communication — Create a Web 3.0 preview application that connects people via Open Telephony
  3. Business and Productivity — Integrate voice and rich communication features into a business application workflow
  4. Carrier, Network, or ISP Integration — Integrate innovative voice capabilities into an existing cable, carrier, mo
We are LIVE at MAXNovember 17 2008

This week we are LIVE at Adobe MAX Conference in San Francisco and will be talking about how with Ribbit you be more creative, more productive and add value and profitability to your work.

There will be lots of useful information for developers at MAX: all week long we will be showcasing some powerful new apps at our Booth #314; we will also be announcing an exciting new contest to get the community fired up; and best of all Chuck Freedman, our Director of Ribbit’s Developer Platform will be presenting at MAX on Monday, November 17, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm - so be sure to check in regularly at the Ribbit developer blog for all the laterst information on MAX.,

We hope to see you all at MAX 2008 in San Francisco.

SayHear.Org, a Ribbit Powered ‘voice your vote’ App goes liveNovember 2 2008

SayHear.org is a very cool web app that PJ Onori and the Creative Agency, Gershoni built using an AJAX UI and the Ribbit API for voice features. We simply adore this interactive app for its elegance and resourcefulness given that this election is poised to be historic with record-breaking numbers of voter turnout.

Callers dial a the number associated with their party affiliation and leave a message on why they decided to vote for their candidate.

* 805.456.5763: Barack Obama
* 805.456.5764: John McCain
* 805.456.5765: 3rd Party
* 805.456.5766: Not Voting

Once they do this, they can hop on over to www.sayhear.org to listen to what the rest of the country has to say in real time.



Tags: gershoni, PJ Onori, sayhear.org, vote