Ribbit for Silverlight - Overview

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Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.

These videos contain a conversation between Crick Waters, SVP of BT/Ribbit, and Joseph Hofstader, Microsoft Architect/Evangelist.  This conversation describes the potential that Ribbit for Silverlight brings to web designers and application developers who wish to integrate communications features into their applications.