Last week, I had a chance to participate in Startup Weekend in San Francisco. Our team leader Steven Echtman from Hear Planet pitched the idea of IntelliMed, a service that helps place reminder phone calls to an elderly family member checking in to make sure they have taken their dosage of medicate. The project was a great opportunity to use Twilio for an audience who’s unlikely to feel as comfortable sitting down at a desktop to connect to the web. Since the phone is also interrupt driven communication, it is a great vehicle for serving these kind of reminders.

You can read more from my teammate Shanti at http://perfwork.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/startup-weekend/.

Next week we are off to Paris, and we may get a chance to drop into another Startup Weekend that’s just before Le Web.

Last week we shipped our first Social Kind application. You can check it out at http://tweettocall.com/. TweetToCall lets you call your followers on Twitter without revealing your phone number. TweetToCall is a great tool for when you need to make sure your message gets across or you need a quick answer.