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Mobile-Enabled Silent Auction

We've been recently playing with Twilio, and looking for other niche IVR applications to build. The perfect opportunity arose as we were involved with helping out a local charity event.During the...

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Batching Mechanical Turk Jobs at the Command Line

Here at Voxilate, we use Amazon Mechanical Turk for a lot of things - from crowdsourcing translations to gathering market research to deciding where to go for lunch! Some of the jobs are one-time deals...

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Turking the Healthcare Bill

As some of you have no doubt heard, the 2,000+ page healthcare bill is making its way through the U.S. Senate and is due for a preliminary vote on Saturday evening. There's a big challenge ahead for...

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Reduce your micro-startup burn rate...and see the world, too!

At Voxilate, we've taken a novel approach to reducing capital expenditures while maximizing productivity and creativity: we're taking the show on the road and are putting our money where our mouths...

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Top 10 Bolt-On Cocoa Touch Libraries

In the last few months of iPhone dev on apps such as HeyTell, we've learned a lot about how to save time and add features by taking advantage of third-party libraries. In no particular order, here are...

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Requirements Tracking For Total Slobs

I'm now working on an iPhone/mobile startup with just a handful of people, and we typically get things done via shouts, IMs, and emails. This works for us, but I used to work at a company which did...

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Gauging User Sentiment with Word Clouds

We just released the HeyTell Android Beta and, in the calm before the storm, wanted to take a little break and do something a little frivolous. Perfect time for word cloud creation! Why not take a look...

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Steve & Jen Speaking at 360|iDev Austin in November

We attended 360|iDev San Jose in Spring of 2010 and had a great time — learned a lot, met a lot of really cool people, and got a chance to connect with fellow travelers on the indie iPhone developer...

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Viral Marketing for Nerds and Data Junkies

Thanks for everyone who attended my Viral Marketing at 360iDev in Austin! Big thanks to John and Nicole for having us as speakers.For everyone who asked, slides are below :)Viral marketing by the...

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Ban the Internet Blacklist

We at Voxilate oppose internet censorship and internet blacklisting. We do not think S.3804 (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) represents the independent software development...

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iOS and Android: The Odd Development Couple

We recently ported our app HeyTell from iPhone to Android, and found that we gained a little perspective in the process. Because it uses a large number of system features (native widgets, location,...

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Happy 1st Birthday, HeyTell!

HeyTell just hit its first birthday, and what an incredible first year it's been! On February 10, 2010, fresh off the adrenalin of the Saints' Super Bowl victory in New Orleans, HeyTell was publicly...

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More HeyTell Server Upgrades

We've been working hard upgrading our servers to handle all of our new users -- and the majority of the work is complete. We think the new system is a lot snappier and more reliable, and we're going to...

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Make a Tap-To-Talk Link for HeyTell on iPhone

Did you know that you can create a link that lets others connect to you on HeyTell? You'll need an iOS device and a Facebook account and can put this link in web pages, emails, Twitter...wherever you...

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April Fool Public Relay Weekend!

Thanks for trying out the public relay - what a great time! We had over 150 people join the relay over the weekend - some participating, some just listening in. Topics of discussion included mobile...

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A few notes on HeyTell 2.3 for iOS!

We've got a few fun changes for HeyTell 2.3, so we thought we'd write a little bit more about 'em!Alert Tones: We added a new extra that plays alert tones. You can set a global tone for all incoming...

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New ways to connect to friends - using URLs and Siri!

You can now provide friends with direct-connection URLs in HeyTell! When they open the web page from their phone, they can connect to you automatically, as long as your privacy is set to Low or you've...

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Upgrading your phone? Take HeyTell with you!

We've heard a little rumor that some of you will be upgrading phones soon! So, we thought we'd take this opportunity to share step-by-step instructions to help transfer your accounts over to your brand...

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