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Amazon ex-employee looks to cloud telephony applications

Eric Engleman from TechFlash is reporting that Jeff Lawson, ex Product Manager of Amazon Web Services, is in the early stages of a new startup company aimed at providing on-demand scalable telephony services to companies.

Twilio is looking to take the same usage model that has made Amazon's Web Services so popular and apply it to the world of telephony. Automated call reminders will be able to be generated and managed for example.

Details are somewhat sketchy on what exact services will be offered, as initially it does sound like a bit of a telephonic spam engine. Hopefully though they will be able to turn it around and offer inbound services as well.

Any user of the popular open source PABX Asterisk software knows how powerful having fine grained control over your own telephony can hold. From voice menus, to custom roaming, the power of the telephone can once again be achieved if presented in a very easily digestible and customizable form.

Currently in private beta, Twilio will be launched in the next coming weeks, and then we'll see where we can add telephony in the cloud stack.

Comments

Thanks Jeff for your comments. I am looking forward to hearing more about your offering, being someone that has done lot of cool stuff with Asterisk.

left by Alan Williamson — Tuesday, 11 November 2008 10:38 AM — web site

Hello Alan,

Thanks for noticing Twilio. To answer your questions, we allow developers to very easily build both inbound and outbound calling applications. We also hate spam, and will actively prevent Twilio from being used for unsolicited outgoing calls. We've spent considerable time building controls on outbound calls to prevent abuse, and it's also against our terms of service.

Cheers,

-jeff

left by Jeff Lawson — Sunday, 9 November 2008 9:54 PM — web site

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