Conference Calling API

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:33:00 GMT

Telephone application company IfByPhone released an API that lets developers add "smart" conference-calling capabilities to the websites they build for businesses. Smart Conference Calling is the latest capability to join Ifbyphone’s suite of over 60 customizable, hosted Web 2.0 business telephony applications that help small businesses automate the sales and customer service processes.

The solutions sounds like it will be especially useful for small businesses, especially franchises, associations and other membership organizations that need to initiate conference calls spontaneously for quick consultations. “Our Smart Conference Calling is unique since Ifbyphone calls the designated participants, instead of waiting for them having to dial in,” added Shapiro. “And we give users a sophisticated set of web based conference-call controls. The conference call originator / moderator can add or drop participants, see which participants are present, mute and unmute individual participants and schedule conferences for any time in the future.“

API Watch: On-Demand Stock Quotes

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:10:00 GMT

Some news from the Web 2.0 Expo being held in New York today. Xignite, a provider of on-demand financial web services for applications, announced the availability of XigniteGlobalQuotes. The Web service delivers delayed stock quotes from global established and emerging markets such as the London Stock Exchange, Mumbai Stock Exchange and a whole host of others. If that's doesn't get you thinking about all the ways you can use the Xignite API then nothing will.

Data from emerging markets has traditionally been hard to come by and even more difficult to integrate into business processes. XigniteGlobalQuotes lets businesses integrate delayed stock data into their applications and websites in minutes with just a few lines of code and without deploying any infrastructure.

“For the last four years, Xignite has been at the forefront in delivering web services for the financial industry. We identified a strong, unmet demand for global financial data and are meeting it with XigniteGlobalQuotes,” said Stephane Dubois, founder and CEO of Xignite. “With cloud computing gaining traction in the enterprise and within financial institutions, IT departments are recognizing that cloud-based web services offer a flexible and cost-effective alternative for sourcing market data to power mission-critical applications.”

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Conference Calling API

API Watch: On-Demand Stock Quotes