O'Reilly ETel Telephony Mashup Contest - And the winners are
If you were following the ETel conference, or there. you know that the
audience chose the winner of the First Ever Telephony Mashup Contest (
Contest URL: http://www.strikeiron.com/developers/contest.aspx . Finalist URL: http://www.strikeiron.com/developers/contest_finalists.aspx).
Out of a total of 19 entries, 3 were chosen to present at ETel. Each
finalist was given 5 minutes to demo their voice application and
convince the audience that theirs was the best Telephony Mashup of
2007. The prize money is $1500 for first place, $1000 for second prize,
and $500 for third prize.
Requirements for Telephony Mashup:
- Uses Telephony Infrastructure (ex: IP PBX, IVR, VoiceXML, SMS, etc.)
- Uses Multiple Services or Content Sources
- Possible for Others to Recreate the mashup
Note: Initial note I got had #2 and #3 reversed. Fixed here as soon as they told me of the flipflop.
First place - AfterHoursDoctorsOffice - by Thomas Howe - http://howethomas.backpackit.com/pub/975351
- using Amazon Mechanical Turk & Strikeiron SMS to Transcribe
office voice mail left by patients for doctors, into text, which is
then sent via SMS to the doctor
Second place - RoboCal - by Ted Gilchrist of Botcast Network - using 30 Boxes & Google Calendar - http://www.robocal.com - Enables users to listen to events listed in 30 Boxes or Google Calendar. Can also save voice messages to your calendar
Third place - FishLign - by Claire Umeda & Dharmesh Desai of LignUp
- using Strikeiron Driving Directions & LignUp Recording, TTS &
Personalization to perform Click2Call and customize a users web and
voice experience.
Thanks
to Dave Nielsen, Director of Partner Programs at StrikeIron for
organizing of the Telephony Mashup Contest, and for the email making
sure I could post the winners
Technorati Tags: O'Reilly ETel, Thomas Howe, FishLign, Robocal, StrikeIron, unified communications, telephony mashup contest
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