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  • NetSquared Talk - Phone Plus Web With Open Source by Jason Goecke

    What’s a multi-modal application? One that does phone, web, and perhaps Twitter, etc. One example is TwitterVoteReport, a Rails application that collected reports of waiting time at the polls for the 2008 US election. Produced in 3 weeks by Dave Troy. Input came from telephone, Twitter, SMS.

    Here’s how Dave did it:

    Open-source Software to do Voice

    • Adhearsion Ruby library for easing call handling. Provides a domain language for doing voice in Ruby
    • Asterisk actually talks to the phone system

    Other Options

    • Rhomobile Allows Ruby/HTML application to be deployed natively to iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android. For front end.
    • Mozes commercial alternative to phone/SMS/web applications
    • Tropo.com hosts Adhearson and Asterisk in the cloud, so less work for you. Also supports languages beyond Ruby.

    Jason Goecke @jsgoecke is a partner at Adhearsion.

    Tags » code mobile n2y4 rails sms voice
    • 26 May 2009
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