The Flat Planet and a Phone !

Well actually in my mind he is number 1, but in this case I am referring to the announcement by Voxbone that The Thomas Howe Company (the leading voice mashup house) is the 3rd company to be named a Certified Developer.

The Voxbone service is one of the “must have” services for the aspiring voice mashup artist. With their service you can immediately integrate phone numbers from tens of countries into your application. The exciting part about it is that you can sit at one end of the world and build local services at the other end!

The purpose of Voxbone’s Certified Developer Program is to certify key companies to answer the need from customers to implement Voxbone’s VoxAPI into their service or application. Certification is given on a case-by-case basis, following several API implementations and positive customer feedback regarding the developer. Thomas Howe joins existing developer program members VDE Projects and Communicatii Libere.

Thomas Howe was invited to join Voxbone’s developer program following several successful mashup projects, including the latest one with Poverty-Action.org. Micro-lending institutions and rural banks located in many of the world’s developing countries are in need of inexpensive, reliable ways to communicate with their highly mobile, mostly rural based staff and customers. The ability to send and receive voice or text messages to provide instantaneous updates on interest rates, credit policy updates, or new customer programs needed to be done inexpensively and in a highly scaleable manner. Using Voxbone’s API, Thomas Howe was able to build an innovative communications application for international use.

According to Patrick Murphy, COO of The Thomas Howe Company, “For voice to become a service, it needs to be easily integrated into applications. Voxbone’s worldwide virtual numbers allowed us to quickly build a powerful communications mashup with global requirements for Povery-Action.org. We are excited about joining Voxbone’s program and look forward to working with other clients using VoxAPI.”