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Being the recent MongoDB convert that I am, I stumbled upon this neat contest. MongoDB and Twilio are giving away some goods this week for the winning application. You need to make the best use of MongoDB and Twilio.

Pretty neat, and what happened in this process is that I learned about Twilio. Twilio is a really cool service that lets you handle phone calls and SMS instructions within your code and then return responses and perform actions. All for a really great cost without any strings attached. So for example, you could have a system where you send a text message (or call in and choose an option) and make it restart your web server or maybe report statistics back to you. Hmmm sounds like maybe a winning idea for an app!? Don't go stealing my idea, but if you do, type quickly, the contest is over at the end of the week. I personally probably will not get around to submitting to the contest, but I really like the MongoDB swag bag...Screw the netbook. I want that bag!

Anyway, be sure to give it all a look, in the least, you might learn something new and find a very valuable tool.