- Posted by jfarrar on March 30, 2009
I'm still suprised! I just got the word that I have won one of the categories in Ribbit's Killer App Challenge Contest!!! I won the Carrier, Network, ISP Integration category with my Simple Softphone. Along with winning the contest I want to say thanks to SimpleSignal for coming along side and approving my work. We plan to take this phone to the next level by integrating features from both the Broadworks platform and the Ribbit platform. Thank you as well to Ribbit for putting on the contest. It was alot of fun and was overall a great success. There were 129 application entries and 453 registered participants in the contest. Kudos also goes out to Top Coder for orchestrating the contest and making it all happen on the technical side.
I plan to continue the development of my apps and winning the 15k will definitely help in making sure I can do just that. I've always been a Flash lover and more recently Flex. I'm super excited to see the changes that are coming soon to the Ribbit platform to allow developers to monetize their applications. With the flexible pricing model that Ribbit has, I forsee there being plenty of mini applications, but also full blown apps that deliver all the features Ribbit has to offer.
Stay tuned, because there are going to be alot of cool things happening with this as the year goes on.
Official release: http://killerappchallenge.ribbit.com/news/?p=925
JoeDeveloper
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- Posted by jfarrar on March 14, 2009
To start off with I must say that Ribbit has come a long way. I joined the beta program back in Nov 2007 and started messing around with the framework. After doing little with the framework for about a year or so I started re-learning the API and then updating some code examples I had built to be compatible with their 2.5 release. There were alot of great enhancements to the API with the 2.5 release. At the same time they released the version update they also announced a contest for developers.
I decided I was going to enter into the contest and see how it went. I made it into the 3rd checkpoint, but fell short of placing in the top 5. Further motivated, I created another application (SimpleSignal Phone) along with the my first application (mailFone) -- video after the jump. I enhanced my mailFone to include incoming screens as well as outgoing, and integrated Plaxo photos for a visual identification of incoming calls or outgoing calls.
So here are my two entries:
mailFone:
http://www.joedeveloper.net/ribbit/emailfone.html
SimpleSignal Phone:
http://www.joedeveloper.net/ribbit/simplesignal/JoeDeveloperSimpleSignal.html
It was really fun working with the Ribbit API and I know that I will use it more frequently and hopefully sell some apps.
Ribbit Ribbit!
Joe
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