I presented to the Portland Web Innovators user group tonight. I talked about a Twitter bot that I created a while ago called @tweetybot. It is a normal Twitter user that, believe or not, will make phone calls when it receives direct messages. Ultimately, what I did was trivial; the magic and heavy lifting is being done by Twilio, a Web service that hides all the complicated telecom stuff behind a simple RESTful API. You can read more about it on my previous blog post.
Here's the deck I presented just in case you missed the show:
I would like to especially thank Portland Web Innovators for giving me the opportunity to talk, Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) for hosting the event, Twilio for providing a killer service and some really nice swag, and to all those that attended.
Here's the deck I presented just in case you missed the show:
I would like to especially thank Portland Web Innovators for giving me the opportunity to talk, Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) for hosting the event, Twilio for providing a killer service and some really nice swag, and to all those that attended.
Travis - excellent demo last night. When @tweetybot called your cell phone that totally blew my mind!
Keep up the good stuff - hope to see you around!
That was the point! Glad it worked. If you haven't seen Kevin Kelly's presentation on Ted.com about the next 5,000 days of the Web, check it out. We're in for a lot more mind-blowing innovations :-)
Travis - I just watched the Next 5000 days presentation - very very cool! Thanks.