One of the VoIP bloggers I've watched from the early roots of where the industry is today is Eric Lagerway. He doesn't blog nearly as much that I've seen lately. He's pretty busy with his latest venture at Lypp these days.

Eric may not blog as much, but when he sends email about something going on in the industry, we all sit up and pay attention. Eric knows where the action is and he's always somewhere at the heart of something exciting. Here are two blog posts about Eric's latest.

37signals and Gaboogie Mashup Contest

By Erik Lagerway

 

We have been exchanging some ideas with the guys at 37signals and we have come up with what we think is a very cool mashup contest. Here is what we came up with…

Developers, build a mashup application or mashup your existing application using both the Highrise API and the Lypp API and win stuff.

Best app:

• $3000 Apple gift certificate
• 20,000 minutes of call time from Lypp (approx value: $1800)
• 12 months subscription for a Highrise MAX account (approx value: $1800)

Runner-up:

• $1500 Apple gift certificate
• 10,000 minutes of call time from Lypp (approx value: $900)
• 6 months subscription for a Highrise MAX account (approx value: $900)

2nd Runner-up:

• $500 Apple gift certificate
• 5,000 minutes of call time from Lypp (approx value: $450)
• 3 month subscription for a Highrise MAX account (approx value: $450)

Application for entries: April 1 to May 1
[Read the full post]

Mashup Lypp and Highrise for fun and profit 

Gaboogie is organizing a contest for developers to mashup their voice-application Lypp with Highrise. There are some cool prizes up for grabs including a $3,000 Apple gift certificate for number #1 and free service from Lypp and Highrise.

They got some cool ideas to get you going, like “Integrated Conference Calling within Highrise, Scheduled Calls, Click to Call Contacts in Highrise, Call-back Task links, just to name a few”. Get programming!