I was an early Twilio user and love the service (and them - some great guys there) but added to their existing ~$4m of funding, that's $16m of funding investors are expecting to get back (with a generous profit on top) sometime.<p>Can something like Twilio really become a $100m+ company? I hope so but my ignorance blinkers me to how this could happen..
Twilio Labs has some really neat stuff: phone calls and SMS from the command line. You can give it an mp3 file and it will play it for a list of recipients.<p><a href="http://labs.twilio.com/bash/index" rel="nofollow">http://labs.twilio.com/bash/index</a><p><a href="http://labs.twilio.com/bash/sms" rel="nofollow">http://labs.twilio.com/bash/sms</a>
I hope they invest a lot of that in innovating and not just marketing/scaling. They've had a decent pace so far but there are still some large holes to fill. I'd like to see:<p>* Conferences that support more than 10 people.<p>* Flash RTMP streaming (even just for outbound)<p>* SIP support<p>There's a lot of cool business stuff that is <i>almost</i> within reach of twilio. Keep innovating guys.
Interesting. Chris Matthieu gave a rockin' demo of Voxeo's PhonoSDK, a jQuery plug-in that makes building SIP-enabled Web pages stupid easy. Looks like there are some really interesting players in the phone space.