The Thomas Howe Company Now In Partnership with Programmable Web

Well, the day is here - today we announce our partnership with ProgrammableWeb, the leading go-to place for mashup developers. I met John Musser at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 show this March, and we've become fast friends and partners. John's site is invaluable to everyone in the mashup community, and all of us at the office are flattered and excited to be part of that family. We see our position in the market as ambassadors of telephony to the larger Web community, and as ambassadors of the Web world into the telephony market. ProgrammableWeb is the capital for mashup developers, and now telephony has established an embassy.

If you haven't visited ProgrammableWeb (which is to say, you haven't written a mashup or web services based application), here's some places you ought to look at real quick:

1. Let's say you want to see what APIs are out there to write your application with. Here's a list of all of them.
2. Sure there are five hundred APIs, but which are the popular ones? Here's a great twist - mouse over the matrix, so you can drill down and see all the advertising mashups written using the Google AdWords API.
3. What's a mashup? You can check out the two thousand, two hundred and twenty listed here.
4. Do you think mashups are simply cool sites that have no business value? Check out the markets section of the site for another opinion. That's where we live, next to shopping and mapping.

So, take a spin and check out the site: you'll be amazed at how much momentum this market has already. If you haven't seen it, I attached the press release below:

THOMAS HOWE COMPANY NOW IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PROGRAMMABLEWEB
Award-winning consulting firm and application developer shares business communications solutions with ProgrammableWeb's online mashup community

W. BARNSTABLE, Mass., and SEATTLE - Aug. 14, 2007 - The Thomas Howe Company, a leading designer and developer of interactive voice and data solutions for businesses, has been named as a premium content partner for ProgrammableWeb, the leading web site for mashups, APIs (application programming interfaces) and the new "Web as Platform" approach to site development.

As a content partner, The Thomas Howe Company is providing expertise in the form of communications mashups, original articles and other materials that are posted in a new channel of ProgrammableWeb.com under the "Mobile/Telephony" section. The content will focus on telephony and mobile web services, APIs and mashups.

"Thomas Howe and team have an entrepreneur's knack for hunting down business-oriented APIs and an engineer's skill for putting them together," said John Musser, founder of ProgrammableWeb.

Howe was the first-place winner of the recent telephony mashup contest sponsored by O'Reilly Media and data-services provider StrikeIron. His entry, "After Hours Doctor's Office," transcribes office voicemails left by patients for doctors into text and then sends them via SMS to the doctor. A case study of this mashup is one of the items posted in the new section of ProgrammableWeb.

"At The Thomas Howe Company, we're interested in building real-time communications systems that help our clients save money while also increasing the quality of service for their customers," said Howe. "I hope that by sharing the information we have found useful, along with details of our own experiences, it will drive further creative thinking within the growing mashup community."

To view content from The Thomas Howe Company on ProgrammableWeb, visit www.programmableweb.com/telephony.