Voxeo Labs’ Tropo lowers barriers for telephone programmers

A short interview with Adam Kalsey (@akalsey) introducing Voxeo‘s Tropo API. Tropo makes programming for telephony easier and cheaper to build for small business and independent developers.

Shot on the demo floor in Moscone West at Google I/O. Also there: Kaazing (whose definition of realtime doesn’t include voice or video),  Meebo (multiplatform IM, voice conferencing and video conferencing but not for Skype since Skype doesn’t offer a gateway) and MySpace (tightly coupled with Skype using a private gateway). You can just feel that everyone would plug in to the Skype network in a heartbeat if only Skype hosted a cloud service.