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		hmottestad on Oct 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing Ixoth, Siri's little helper. Webhooks ... This uses SMS right? Isn't that a bit costly? Could you do that same with email for instance? It's a great idea all in all. Lot's of companies will be looking for a way to integrate with Siri, and this approach seems quite fair. I see possible uses: Messaging with your dry cleaner. "Siri, ask My Dry Cleaner when my dry cleaning will be done" Send email/sms to contact with name "My Dry Cleaner" with text "when will my dry cleaning be done". Get email/sms back with date and time Messaging with your TV [schedule]. "Siri, ask My TV if [enter name of show] is running tonight" Get sms/email back from your TV :) This will all need natural language parsing on the backend though.

qrush on Oct 23, 2011 [–]

Yep, it's using SMS. This will be a paid service.

I am really excited to see the use cases here, and to become a "platform" of sorts to build on top of.

sumukh1 on Oct 24, 2011 | [–]

Just curious, what sort of SMS backend/API are you using to accept and deliver messages?

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