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Twilio. Ringing phones is pure magic, and provides so many disruptive opportunities it is staggering.


+1 for Twilio. Tropo is looking pretty sweet too.


Indeed; especially their PhonoSDK. http://phono.com/ I didn't really understand what it did until I listened to this podcast: http://changelogshow.com/105/18576-episode-0-4-1-telephony-w...


+2 for Tropo... it is sweet.


I would love to see Twilio more readily available in Australia. SMS costs here are just unfair.


Sure. You can disrupt someone on the toilet, at the dinner table, in bed, etc, etc. Very disruptive indeed.


There was a time in my life, where every single time my girlfriend and I were about to enjoy some adult time, my employees would call. Without fail. There has to be some sort of twillo app idea in there somewhere.


We just need to tap into the accelerometer, do an FFT and low-pass on the microphone, and check for a correlation between the frequency of a rhythmic acceleration and the frequency of grunting.


There is actually a project going on at my university that basically does that. It's an iPhone app that takes the accelerometer and sound input into consideration. They guys doing that app are graphing the data and have an algorithm rating the "performance". It's supposed to be a little criticism about the current state of privacy (and it includes abilities to share your scores in Twitter and Facebook :) )


A Kinect might be a useful tool here, as well.


Reminds me of this best man who setup a Twitter account for the sole purpose of automatically tweeting when the newlyweds were having sex (recorded using a pressure sensitive device):

http://twitter.com/newlywedsontjob


I'm not sure how Twilio would help me any further with turning my phone to silent when I don't want to take calls.. ;-)


or... while they're using their phone as a method of programmatic notification?




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