November 2009
1 post
GetVocal Launches Spree.ly - Social Shopping
Spree.ly (http://Spree.ly), GetVocal.com’s latest self-funded social experiment, has been released in the “Nick” of time to help with your online Christmas social shopping experience. Spree.ly (@spreely) allows you to shop online with your family and friends on virtually any shopping site.
Spree.ly provides a proxy-based, shop-with-a-friend experience with no registration or sign-ins and with...
May 2009
1 post
GetVocal Releases Twype.Me
Mashups are fun to work on these days. We rely heavily on both Twitter and Sykpe on a daily basis. Sometimes tweets need to escalate to a phone call.
Rather than forwarding someone a tweet with your Skype username and contact instructions, we decided to hack together a simple Twitter/Skype mashup called http://twype.me. This mashup allows you to link your skype username to your twitter username...
September 2008
2 posts
GetVocal @ AstriCon
Chris Matthieu had a chance to attend Astricon, Digium’s annual Asterisk open source conference. Besides meeting a bunch of geeky-cool telephony engineers, he was able to take-in a dozen or so presentations. Skype even made a major announcement at the conference - a Skype / Asterisk partnership. Now Asterisk users can call Skype users directly from the switch!
The future of telephony is...
FreeSwitch - SIP Switch
Have you heard about FreeSwitch? It’s an open source Asterisk competitor that is positioned as more of a soft switch rather than a PBX. It appears to have a more scalable design and perhaps even 10x more call processing power per server. I can’t find any information on their site where FreeSwitch supports analog or digital telephony boards. At first I thought that this would be a...
August 2008
1 post
GetVocal & Adhearsion Founders Interviewed
Chris Matthieu, GetVocal founder, interviews Jay Philips, Adhearsion founder, on the Rubyology podcast. Adhearsion is an open source framework that, in simplest terms, improves the way the world writes “voice” applications. It rests above a popular open-source platform called Asterisk, abstracting its many pain points and domain complexity. This framework turns Ruby developers into...
July 2008
2 posts
Surf-By-Tel Converted to Ruby on Rails
We originally developed Surf-By-Tel in Microsoft ASP for a customer as a proof-of-concept solution 3 years ago to prove that the telephone could be used for surfing the web with voice commands. Much has changed in 3 years with respect to speech technologies, web development platforms, and social computing opportunities.
As we strive to maintain our position in bleeding-edge mobile innovation, it...
Welcome to GetVocal!
Welcome to GetVocal’s weblog!
We are very excited about the mobile 2.0 buzz today. Our founder, Chris Matthieu, is a veteran entrepreneur in the telecom industry. Prior to starting up the company, Chris built Digital Voice Technologies, inc., a voice portal technology company, without debt financing or funding and sold it 5 years later for $2.5M.
The future of telecom today is even...