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Scientists found the best way to make cacio e pepe: add cornstarch(nytimes.com)
2 points by akalsey 2y ago|0 comments
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by akalsey 2y ago
A co-worker mentioned they had a desk at the end of their driveway with a free sign on it for over a week with no takers. I told them to put a $10 sign on it and someone would steal it. It was gone the next morning.
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by akalsey 2y ago
My wife runs an estate sale company, helping families dispose of property. Sometimes the family wants her to give something away. She hates that. It’s way more work for her than selling it for even $1. She says, “There’s no one more entitle
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by akalsey 13y ago
You should never accept the caller id of a phone number that called you as identity verification. It is trivial for anyone with a VoIP line to set caller id to whatever they wish.
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by akalsey 14y ago
Company the size of AT&T working in highly regulated areas, everything's a subsidiary for various accounting and legal reasons. AT&T Mobile and AT&T UVerse are two different companies. They probably have different operating enti
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by akalsey 14y ago
We think it would be neat to do this sort of thing with existing numbers, too. That's why we released Ameche a couple of months ago. http://voxeolabs.com/ameche/overview/ Built by the same folks as Tropo was, so the couple hundred thousan
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by akalsey 14y ago
Thanks. As you can imagine, we're all amped up.
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by akalsey 14y ago
AT&T does have some APIs for interacting with MMS. Those have actually been around for several months. The MMS API they offer at https://developer.att.com/developer/basicTemplate.jsp?passed... is restricted to working with AT&T mo
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by akalsey 14y ago
Not exactly. Instead of white labeling our APIs in our cloud, AT&T is running their own APIs in their own network, just like our previous announcement with Deutsche Telekom in Germany. We (Voxeo Labs) provided the technology to them, an
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by akalsey 14y ago
Applications developed on the Call Management APIs do not require approval by AT&T. The APIs offered by AT&T that require approval tend to be those that interact with subscriber devices. If you can take over a mobile handset with it
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by akalsey 14y ago
Yes, Call Management is cross-carrier. Don't worry about not understanding the press release. Those aren't ever written to be understood by humans.
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by akalsey 14y ago
The only protection a hotel operator gets here is protection of their business model. Governments should not generally be in the business of favoring one business model over another, or of passing laws that protect models from the march of
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Cargo cult startups(sacstarts.com)
1 points by akalsey 14y ago|0 comments
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On used cars and company valuations(sacstarts.com)
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by akalsey 14y ago
Tropo has Australian numbers. And 40 other countries. Has for years. http://tropo.com (disclosure, I'm the product manager). But really, if all you're doing is dialing out, then you don't actually need a local number. Just use whatever se
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by akalsey 15y ago
WebRTC is a w3c standard - it's part of HTML 5 - so getting browsers to support it isn't going to be as big of a problem as you suspect. Browsers today (even with HTML5) are mainly consumers of media. There's great ways to get audio and vid
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by akalsey 15y ago
Automobile manufactures will tell you to use factory parts, too. Doesn't mean there aren't other compatible options. OpenVBX would run on any platform that emulates Twilio's API. That includes Twilio (of course), Plivo, an Teleku (disclosur
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by akalsey 15y ago
The core that actually runs your applications is open source. Runs on any java SIP servlet app server. You can run Tropo apps without touching Tropo.com at all or paying us for anything. There are a number of companies doing this today. We
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by akalsey 15y ago
VoiceXML and CCXML are suited for most telephony apps. We've seen conference calling, dating, virtual Number services, notifications, and lots more on XML telephony platforms. Twilio and Tropo Apis are each subsets of what Vxml & CCXML
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by akalsey 15y ago
If you're looking for more options, there's a LOT out there. Think of all the automated voice systems you interact with on a regular basis. In the open source world, you could install Asterisk yourself and use something like Adhearsion to d
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by akalsey 15y ago
Changing the root web service URL for OpenVBX requires that you change one line of code. No need to even fork it.
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by akalsey 15y ago
It's not a service -- it's open source software you download and run on your own servers. Their web site or ability to keep it online has nothing to do with the product.
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by akalsey 15y ago
Tropo provides phone numbers in 41 countries, including the Netherlands. We have a large number of Dutch customers. We also provide Dutch text to speech and speech recognition.
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Why SMSified could revolutionize the bulk SMS space | TruVoIPBuzz(truvoipbuzz.com)
1 points by akalsey 15y ago|0 comments
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by akalsey 16y ago
One reason is that we want our developers to be part of a technology community. Attending (and presenting at) industry events, meetups, bar camps, and local user groups. There's a lot more opportunity for that if you're located in certain p
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How small firms are driving Ireland out of recession(irishexaminer.ie)
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2011 may mark the beginning of a golden era for entrepreneurs(venturebeat.com)
2 points by akalsey 16y ago|0 comments
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by akalsey 16y ago
We're hiring Java wizards to work on the core of Tropo. http://tropo.com/ We're a distributed team (China, London, Orlando, Philly, Phoenix, and Bay Area) so we're adept at working remotely. Somewhere in the Bay Area preferred, but we'd a
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by akalsey 16y ago
We're hiring Java wizards to work on the core of Tropo. http://tropo.com/ Bay Area preferred, but we'd also love to talk to you if you're located near any other large US city or technology hub (Seattle, Boulder, Austin, Chicago, Boston, N
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by akalsey 16y ago
We're a very distributed company, with some projects being worked on by people in a dozen locations, so some form of IM is needed. I'm a big XMPP proponent (and Voxeo acquired my xmpp-based company) and we do use XMPP for a lot of things in

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