Voxeo Talks

One of the fun aspects of giving your product away for free is that you really have no clue what people will wind up doing with it. So we were delighted to learn that our premise “Prophecy” product as well as industry standards we support like VoiceXML and grXML were included in a new book, “Mobile Web Development“, new available from Packt Publishing. (UPDATE: I subsequently learned that the author did contact us some time back about permission to use some screenshots, etc.)

The book’s author has a blog and in his entry today about the book writes this (I obviously added the bold emphasis):

Mobile Web Development shows you how to build a mobile presence for your web applications and sites. It covers targeting different mobile web browsers, sending and receiving SMS and MMS messages, accepting mobile payments, and developing voice- and touchtone-response systems.

The book illustrates every technique with practical examples, showing how to use these development methods in the real world. Along the way we show how an example pizza delivery business can use these methods to open up to the mobile web. The book is fast paced, yet touches upon relevant concepts. I had a great ride while I was reviewing the book. I was actually surprised at how fast the book moved – covering important topics in just enough detail, and moving on to the next!

There is a whole lot of technologies I covered in the book. The examples are done in PHP with XHTML Mobile Profile. But I also covered: AJAX, Wireless CSS, WAP 2.0, Tera WURFL, MyMobileWeb, Mobile Web Toolkit, Image Server, GAIA Image Transcoder, HAWHAW , ready.mobi, Nokia’s Mobile Internet Toolkit , SMIL, Voxeo’s Prophecy server, VoiceXML (VXML), grXML, Frost library, WALL, WURFL, SMS, MMS, mobile payment gateways, mobile widgets, Mobile AJAX, Android, Google Gears, and Dojo Offline.

The blog entry goes on to talk more about what the book offers developers. It sounds like a great book and I’m looking forward to seeing a copy (since I actually have no idea what he said about us!). We do see the whole mobile space as a huge growth area and welcome developers to look at using either our on-premise Prophecy or our hosted Evolution platform to build their apps. (Check out the docs available at either of those links!)

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