Friday, June 12, 2009

Twilio Doubles Down With Netbook Competition

San Francisco- and Seattle-based Twilio is continuing the firm's netbook giveaway to developers, saying earlier this week that it gave away two netbooks to developers, instead of just one. According to the firm, the first team it awarded a netbook to was a team from Synchronicity Labs, which developed PagerDuty, an application which forwards emails, text messages, and phone calls to the right person depending on escalation rules. The second went to Kurtis Welch, of Magma Software, who developed a personal productivity tool to call people with voice reminders. Twilio is a developer of a cloud-based API for creating telephony applications; the firm is funded by Founders Fund and Mitch Kapor.