Host Dan York spoke with independent developer Ted Gilchrist about the VnoTed service he created that lets you call in and post location updates to Brightkite, and also have those updates go out to Twitter and Friendfeed.

[UPDATE: Shortly after I uploaded the show, Ted contacted me to let me know that unfortunately VnoTed is not working right now due to the Brightkite API being broken. He has apparently been waiting for Brightkite to fix their API, but has not yet seen any movement. Not to be deterred, Ted is already exploring ways that he might rewrite the VnoTed service to use another location-based service that has a stable API. Stay tuned...]

Beyond the actual function of location-based voice notes, Ted’s service is quite an interesting mashup of services. As he describes in a document, VnoTed uses:

• Brightkite
• Google App Engine for web hosting
• Amazon S3 for storage of voice notes
• Voxeo’s Tropo.com for the voice interaction
• Voxeo’s IMified for setting hashtags
• Google Maps to get the latitude and longitude of a US ZIP code

Ted has also made his VnoTed code open source and posted it to Github. Those interested can download the code and experiment with it directly. More info about Ted and his work can be found on www.vnoted.com or on Twitter at @egilchri.

For those wondering about the background, this video was recorded in the Voxeo booth at SpeechTEK in August 2009 in New York City.

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What is a “voice mashup”? How do they work? How can “mashup” tools help developers more quickly build voice applications? What is meant by “voice-enabling business processes”?

In this episode, Dan York discusses these questions with Thomas Howe, CEO of The Thomas Howe Company and frequent speaker/writer about voice mashups, building voice applications and where the communications industry in general is headed.

This interview was recorded in August 2008 at the ClueCon conference in Chicago, IL, USA.

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