Tropo vs Twilio Youtube Debate Transcribed

(My take on this is neutral. I was asked to transcribe the debate to text. The video was created by a third party in response to an article on Hacker News that compared the two platforms.)

Tropo fan: Did you see the post on Hacker News about Tropo vs Twilio?

Twilio fan: Yes, I did

Tropo fan: What do you think about it?

Twilio fan: I think that Twilio is better.

Tropo fan: It seems that Tropo has more features.

Twilio fan: Twilio gave me a netbook.

Tropo fan: Tropo has international phone numbers. Does Twilio?

Twilio fan: No, but I got so wasted at Twilio's Christmas party I threw up in Dave McClure's hat.

Tropo fan: You threw up in his hat?

Twilio fan: Yes, he didn't mind. He has 499 others.

Tropo fan: That sounds like a lot of hats. Does Dave McClure know anything about telephony?

Twilio fan: No. He's a super angel. He doesn't know anything about telephony, but he curses a lot, and that is cool.

Tropo fan: Is that what makes him a super angel? All of the cursing?

Twilio fan: Yes. He also plays ultimate frisbee, and he owns lots of hats.

Tropo fan: Yes, you mentioned the hats already. Tropo supports speech recognition. Does Twilio?

Twilio fan: No. ____ the noise.

Tropo fan: What did you say?

Twilio fan: That's what Dave McClure says to say anytime we don't like something. ____ the noise. He is a super angel.

Tropo fan: Didn't Dave McClure say open source is for losers?

Twilio fan: ____ the noise. Super angel.

Tropo fan: Tropo is open source. Is Twilio?

Twilio fan: No. ____ the noise. Super angel.

Tropo fan: But isn't Twilio built on top of Asterisk and a hodgepodge of other open source software?

Twilio fan: Yes, but Twilio isn't open source. Open is for losers.

Tropo fan: But it sounds like Twilio just glued together a bunch of open source software and now is charging developers to use it.

Twilio fan: ____ the noise. Twilio gave me a netbook.

Tropo fan: Yes. You said that already. Tropo is completely free for developers. Is Twilio free?

Twilio fan: No. You have to give them your credit card in order to get a phone number, but they sent me a t-shirt, so I didn't mind.

Tropo fan: It's beginning to sound like you only like Twilio because they give you prizes and free drinks.

Twilio fan: ____ the noise. I have to go now. There is huge party at the Twilio headquarters, and I don't want to miss it. They just raised 12 million dollars, and I heard they are spending all 12 million on booze, iPads, and unicorn hats.

Tropo fan: Wow, twelve million dollars can buy a lot of booze, iPads, and unicorns hats. I hope you have fun at your party.



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DIDX Wholesale Global Phone Number Marketplace Beginnings

Nostalgia, trivia ... every invention, genre, person, organization and more has them. I just found a copy of the announcement of DIDX winning a place on the World Communications Changemaker List for 2006 along with unbelievable competition such as British Telecom and Belgacom SA.  I remember creating at least a dozen persuasive pages of writing for the application. We met Xconnect there who sat our table. They also made it to one of the World Communications Total Telecom Lists for 2006.

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Graceland Indie Film Goes to Fantasia Film Fest in Quebec

How did anyone who is successful ... get there? Many of them at one time were in tough life situations. I have had some tough times in my fifty-two year life, and I was so lucky to have some wonderful mentors and significant others to push me along and help me. Congratulations to the popular the award-winning Indie film Graceland - A Life for Every Lie. Not only did it win second place audience award narrative at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, but it also made it to the Quebec Fantasia Film Festival scheduled July 14 - August 7, 2012. I had this feeling it was going to do very well when I first read about it in 2011.

Related websites:
Graceland Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Graceland-A-LIFE-for-Every-LIE/327743063906679

Graceland main website - http://www.gracelandmovie.com/home/main.html

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My VoIP and Open Source Nostalgic Time Line

Following is a work in progress of my involvement in IP communications, open source and other technologies.

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