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Summer Fun: Baseball and Phono

By Editor August 10, 2011 November 7, 2011 2

Last week, I wrote about the under-appreciated but impressive Phono, a jQuery plugin that lets you embed a softphone into any web page.

Phono is made by Florida-based Voxeo, a long-standing and innovative telephony software vendor.

With a pinch of JavaScript, anybody—developer, HTML-phobic designer—can add a voice channel widget, accessible from laptop, smartphone, or tablet.

What’s cooler than an embedded JavaScript softphone?

Connecting said softphone up with Tropo, Voxeo’s server-side telephony environment.

I usually free associate baseball, not JavaScript, with the month of August, so I decided to take on a small Tropo project to read back current major league baseball scores into my Phono widget, which I’ve conveniently inserted into this post.

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Hey, What About Phono?

By Editor July 28, 2011 September 6, 2011

I’m happy for Twilio.

This week they announced a JavaScript library that supports VoIP calls from within a browser. Or in their marketing words, “audio pipes for voice communications in web and mobile apps”. With a few lines of code, any web page can now include a thin-client softphone. Bellisimo.Continue reading

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Fall:Leaves, Hackathons, and Hatching Startups

By Editor October 22, 2010 November 12, 2011

I missed HackNY’s Fall hackathon event which was held at NYU’s Courant Institute over one long weekend earlier this month. HackNY—it’s a non-profit—had the idea …

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Voxeo’s Phono: Instant Softphone Using Javascript

By Editor October 17, 2010 September 30, 2011 2

Yesterday at the jQuery Conference held in Boston, Voxeo announced its new plugin that “turns any web browser into a multi-channel communications platform.” Called Phono (rhymes with Tropo), this is a pure client-side solution that is simple enough to implement: just a few lines of HTML and you have a working softphone embedded in a browser page.

I repeat: this is a client-side solution that, unlike Tropo and Twilio, doesn’t involve any server-side complexities. Voxeo’s cloud does all the communications control!

I suspect at more than a few startups next week, the words “Phono” and “Voxeo” will be found scribbled on whiteboards.

There are other tantalizing things about the announcement. More on page two.Continue reading