Resurrecting Google SMS Search Using Twilio

Like many of you, I was sad to hear on Friday that Google decided to shut down their service that let you search via SMS. Luckily, a basic version of the service is not difficult to create on your own using Twilio SMS and Google’s Custom Search API! This is a very bare-bones implementation…

Using Google Glass, Twilio, Ruby, and Sinatra to Send and Receive SMS Messages

Myself and other developers have been giddy with glee at the recent release of Google Glass, one of the first largely available wearable computing platforms. After the Glass Foundry hackathons in January, I couldn’t wait to start building awesome applications such as GlassTweet with the Mirror API and helping others do the same…