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1 year ago

in Ribbit acquired by British Telecom on Web 2 Voice
You were with West? I've been following IfByPhone for awhile, you guys are doing some interesting things. I worked in many different capacities years ago with a pioneering IVR service bureau called IVR, Inc. ....now part of Prosodie in France. We developed DTMF and Speech applications on a Dialogic/Visual Voice and Nuance platform....back then we struggled to cobble our applications with the web. Today's ease of integration makes a lot of apps that pushed the envelope of usability 7-10 years ago much more viable. Add SIP to the mix, you have some pretty versatile tools.
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khylek I was with Centerpost, which was then acquired by West. I liked working for both companies. I have to say that the conversion from start up to big company went really well. The whole culture changed of course, but that's bound to happen.

Thanks for the compliment to IfByPhone too. I think one of the big benefits that we have at IfByPhone is that we're pretty nimble still, and we grew up as a Web\Voice company. So the integration was there from the start. Larger companies are going to have to work really hard not only to pull in the web functionality, but to integrate into their existing huge systems. I think that's one reason why Ribbit was so appealing to BT.
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