April 2013
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Meet Our Team: An Interview with Kunal
1. How long have you worked at Plivo?
I joined Plivo in February 2012 as the second hire. Its been a year full of constant learning and fun filled excitement. I came in right out of college having worked on mini python project. It was after I had finished my work with prosody (XMPP Server) under Google Summer of Code, Venky reached out to me through github.
2. What has been your greatest...
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Plivo + PyLadies Workshop
We’re so excited to have members of PyLadies SF join us this weekend to develop their Python skills! During the two day tutorial, participants will: 1. Learn python basics, including types, containers, functions, iterators and generators. 2. Learn how to create a web application in Python (using flask). 3. Use the Plivo package to learn how to make outbound telephone calls. 4. Create an...
March 2013
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Get Started with your Free Developer Account
by Kunal Kerkar, @tsudot
Language: Python (see comments for additional languages) Function: API Call
Preliminary Steps
1. Go to www.plivo.com/accounts/register and sign up for an account.
2. Follow the steps in your activation email. You now have access to $10 free developer credits each month until you upgrade to a standard account.
3. Create an Endpoint by visiting this link,...
Free Plivo Developer Accounts for Life
To show our appreciation for developers, and to make it easy to get started with Plivo, we now offer free developer accounts for life to all new registrants! What does this mean? You will be given $120 credit every year which can be used to build voice applications. While these accounts are meant for getting your feet wet with our platform, they also provide the freedom needed to prototype and...
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Plivo to Take Part in the Innovation Showcase
We’re proud to announce that Plivo has been chosen as one of the four companies to attend the Innovation Showcase at Enterprise Connect!
“The third annual Innovation Showcase program takes place at Enterprise Connect Orlando 2013 later this month. The mission is simple: identify and recognize young firms with innovative approaches to enterprise communications. This year a record 20...
February 2013
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Sansay & Plivo
We’ve teamed up with Sansay to offer a new and powerful cloud communications platform and couldn’t be more excited!
“Sansay’s newfound interoperability with Plivo gives Sansay devices the ability to easily work with the cloud communication functions and messaging services offered by Plivo. This will allow the newly-minted coalition to pursue not only over the top (OTT)...
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Transcription: What’s New & How to Use
About a month ago, we launched new transcription capabilities that enable enterprises and developers to build even more powerful applications, like true visual voicemail. With this update, recorded calls (in English) can be transcribed in two different ways: 1. auto- strictly done by a computer, fast (usually complete within 5 minutes). 2. hybrid- recording is checked by an actual person,...
Come and Meet Us!
While we’ve been working on new and exciting features (stay tuned!), we’ve also been marking our calendar with several events that will allow us to bring the Plivo story to more enterprises, service providers, and developers. During the upcoming weeks, you can find us at: Channel Partners- will be in attendance February 27 & 28 and look forward to talking with more service providers about...
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Meet Our Team: An Interview with Nishad
1. How long have you worked at Plivo? How does it feel being the first hire?
It’s been a year now since I joined and it’s been a crazy year at that. I met Venky at a coffee shop about a month prior to joining. When he explained Plivo’s vision to me, I was very excited. I really didn’t think in terms of being a first employee. I knew that both Mike and Venky were on to...
January 2013
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What Rails Girls Taught Me
by: Rachel Mae Smith, @rachelmaesmith
(Photo courtesy of Jessica Allen) If you’ve ever had the urge to build something, but were too scared or skeptical of learning to code, my advice to you is just try it. Coming from a non-technical background, I’ve always been intimidated by the idea of learning to code. Not only did it seem too complex for me to understand, but I was also unsure as to how...
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Plivo Sponsors Rails Girls
Plivo is proud to be a sponsor of the Rails Girls workshop in San Francisco this weekend! Our own community manager, Rachel (@rachelmaesmith, rachel@plivo.com) will be taking the workshop, so feel free to introduce yourself if you happen to be attending. For those of you not familiar with Rails Girls, they’re a nonprofit volunteer community dedicated to providing tools to women to help them...
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Plivo Launches SDK That Lets Developers Connect...
“WebRTC, the new in-browser framework for real-time video and audio chats, will likely be a major trend this year. While it’s exciting for developers to easily add browser-to-browser chat features to their apps, however, being able to call regular phones from the web and to integrate WebRTC into existing calling solutions is still a necessity for many developers. The YC-backed VoIP...
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Plivo Party Friday
To celebrate the new year, Plivo is throwing a WebRTC beta party and everyone is invited! WebRTC enables a complete transformation in how we communicate and eliminates the need for complex endpoints. Now the browser is your phone and the possibilities are endless. So share this link (http://webrtc.plivo.com) with your family, coworkers, and friends and start 2013 with some fun!
Note - we...
New Year, New Challenges, New Opportunity
While you’re updating your list of what vices to break and how many pounds to lose, take a minute to consider your current work situation. Do they offer a relaxed work environment? the opportunity to work with highly motivated individuals on an industry changing product? competitive salaries and full medical benefits? Well, we do! At Plivo, you won’t just be another face in the crowd. You will be...
December 2012
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Cloud Communications (for the first time EVER)...
posted by: Mike Lauricella, @mlauricella
“Wait - let me download that plugin.” “I am waiting for the Webex client to install, I should be in the meeting in about 5 minutes, or maybe an hour.” “Oh wait, I don’t have the right version of flash installed. What the hell is flash?” “I think Skype just crashed….” “I have to install a SIP what? I don’t want to install anything else” “Of course my...
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‘Tis the Season!
The holidays are finally here and the Plivo team is excited to celebrate! We’d like to share our holiday spirit and show appreciation for our customers, existing and new, by adding a little something extra to your Plivo accounts. Send us a tweet (@plivo) with the code #PLIVOHOLIDAY when you charge up your account this week and we’ll add an additional credit of 50%.
Details
This promotion is...
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Tips & Tricks for Finding an Office Space
posted by: Rachel Mae Smith
San Francisco is a great place to be. There’s tons of great restaurants, beautiful scenery, and most importantly, a large population of creative and passionate people. It’s no wonder why individuals as well as companies move here. Given that real estate is limited, finding an office space can be complicated. Here are a few points we learned from finding our space: ...
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Plivo Ensures Quality and Security for Imprezzio,...
Plivo helps Imprezzio, Inc., a leading software company, provide their customers with a high quality and secure solution to manage client relationships.
Challenge
- Needed a scalable, secure and reliable solution
- Targeting high profile Fortune 100 financial and insurance customers
- Required a powerful, open platform with a quick, responsive support team for a smooth integration
Solution
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More About Our Funding Announcement!
Wow, yesterday was a great and exciting day for all of us at Plivo! If by chance you missed it, we raised a $1.75M seed round from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Qualcomm and SV Angel. We’ve accomplished a great deal already and we’re just getting started. We’re excited to build out a world-class team, spread the Plivo message far and wide, and truly bring telephony to the Web.
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Voice and Messaging Apps Platform Provider Plivo...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Dec 3, 2012 – Voice and messaging applications platform provider Plivo (www.plivo.com) announced today that it has closed a $1.75M seed round of financing from investment firms Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Qualcomm Incorporated and SV Angel.
Launched in December 2011, Plivo is disrupting the hosted telephony space with the most scalable and feature-rich voice and...
November 2012
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Happy Thanksgiving
It’s amazing how quickly 2012 has gone by. Here at Plivo, we’ve had an exciting year full of growth and progress. In January we had one customer, one employee (apart from the founders), and were still developing our product. Now, thanks to momentum from The Morpheus, the guidance from Y Combinator, and all of the 18-20 hour days worked, our team is 18 members strong across two countries—and...
August 2012
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International launch in 50 countries across...
Today, we are launching our service internationally by providing local phone numbers in more than 50 countries within a month of announcing the launch of Plivo cloud - Our scalable API platform to build Voice and SMS applications in the US.
We have also beefed up our multilingual Text to speech to support the additional languages covering most of these 50 countries. We are moving fast towards...
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Journey since Plivo Cloud Launch
It’s almost a month since we launched Plivo cloud - an API platform to build voice and SMS applications that scales like a charm. It’s been both exciting and hectic since then. Exciting because we acquired a bunch of new customers from our launch; hectic because we acquired a bunch of new customers from launch :) To be honest, we didn’t even find time to announce the launch in our blog until now!...
March 2012
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Like BF, Come join us
Like BrainF@#k, Come join us. We are looking for smart Python Developers to work out of our simple but spacious office in Bangalore, India.
We extensively use Python, Django, Flask, Gevent, Postgres and FreeSWITCH, but we don’t care whether you know these. If you think you are a smart ass developer (Web or Systems) and love pumping out code, then give us a shout.
Additional Bonus Points,...
August 2011
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ClueCon 2011 Slides - Plivo
Plivo was at ClueCon 2011 at Chicago, USA, between August 9-11.
Venky, the Co-creator of Plivo, gave a talk on “Plivo – Developing Telephony Apps in the Web World” on Day 2.
Slide from the talk at ClueCon 2011 is up here:
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Plivo at ClueCon 2011
ClueCon is an annual Open Source Telephony User and Developer Conference which covers areas from TDM to VoIP and everything else.
The location this time is Chicago, USA, at the Sofitel between August 9-11, 2011.
Mike and Venky, creators of Plivo Framework will be presenting at Cluecon on the 10th – Plivo: Developing Telephony Apps in the Web World
Post that, we will be San-Francisco Area for...
June 2011
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Twilio advertises on our keyword - We are...
We have noticed that a search for ‘plivo’ on Google throws up a Twilio ad (check the image below). The fact that they’ve taken notice of an open source version of their offering is flattering indeed.
Just one thing though – Twilio could do with a proofreader. The copy should read ‘Phone Calls’ and not ‘Phones Calls’.
May 2011
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Launch of Plivo-An Open Source alternative to...
In the absence of a rapid telephony app development framework, web developers have found it hard to build applications that interact with phone callers. Twilio stepped in to solve this problem for many – merging the open-source Asterisk PBX with their proprietary cloud platform – thus exposing the telephony engine to developers through drop dead simple APIs. However, Twilio comes with a catch. App...
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Hello World!
Welcome to Plivo’s Official Blog. This is our first post. Here, We are going to talk about the framework, features, tutorials, announcements and other relevant topics. We’ll put in our best to keep it going!
