Back from Mobile World Congress and back from Barcelona and back to the day to day business of turning voice, into text.

And WHY has it taken so long to update this here blog of ours?
Well… I can tell you. You MAY have noticed from the pictures that we had JUST A FEW little men - aka “Speech Mobsters” - on the SpinVox stand.

Two thousand of them in fact!

And behind those two thousand we had a further five hundred. Packed away all secretly like and ONLY given away to those folk who we REALLY liked
Thing is - we kinda underestimated how popular this little piece of ’schwag’ would be and the poor little blighters disappeared in no time!
So as it turns out - word has got around that owning a genuine ‘Speech Mobster’ is cooler than a snowman’s cool bits - and my email inbox has literally been flooded with requests…

First they started out with the normal kind of thing - “Where can I get one?“
Then the demands of “Whatley, you owe me Sonny Jim! You HAVE to get me one!“
Finally to the scary “I’ll swap you my Gran and a week’s worth of biscuits…“

I’m sorry to disappoint folks. There are NONE left! Even the one that I had in my keeping got stolen from desk whilst I was in Barcelona last week, (nice huh?).
So listen, if you’re reading this and you got one of these:

You are one of the lucky ones.
Guard it well

If you *didn’t* get one of these but still consider yourself a friend of SpinVox - i.e.: You REALLY want a Mobster! - then I might have a way to get you one.
Basically I’m currently trying to pull every string possible to get another one into my hands.

Watch this space - when I do, I’ll make sure that the readers have this blog get a chance to win their very own Speech Mobster…

Until next time,

J

PS - Have you seen Mobby?

It’s been a busy week here at SpinVox HQ and it’s ONLY MONDAY! Eep…

So, in lieu of my next amazing, award-winning blog post, (shh - our secret), here’s a quick round up of what’s going down in the blogging world of SpinVox today:

CES has kicked off! Woooooooo! At laaaaaaaaaaast!
I remember the days when this used to be a huge event in my gaming calendar…
What with the likes of Nintendo & SEGA et al using this platform to announce their latest machines etc…Oh how times have changed!

Anywhoo… SpinVox has it’s very own roving reporter there RIGHT NOW in the rather lovely form of Laura-Jane Rich.

Laura-Jane, (or ‘L-J’ as she prefers to be known), will be reporting live from the conference floor direct to her blog! You can read her first post right here, (spoken through SpinVox of course).

Have fun L-J! You have no idea how green with envy I am! It shoulda been me!

On the back of that we had this lovely piece appear in the Financial Times this morning not only referencing the advent of the spoken blog at CES (see above) but also Symbian-Guru’s coverage of Nokia World, Anna Hemming’s award-winning antics on her blog AND… (breathe!)
…Paul Mitson’s intention to speak his blog live from the (now sadly cancelled) Lisbon to Dakar Rally!

Not bad work for a Monday eh?

More awards, but this time not for SpinVox but for a friend of SpinVox!

Anna Hemmings, Britain’s leading female marathon canoeist, was named last week as both Elmbridge 2007 Sports Personaility of the Year, (for the second year in a row!), and also the BBC London 2007 Sports Personality of the year.

*APPLAUSE*

Now I’ve never met Anna, but word on the street in SpinVox HQ is that this fantastic success is what we’ve all come to expect of the winner of ELEVEN (count ‘em) World and Championship medals, NINE of them gold and successful defender of her K1 Marathon Racing World Championship title, now having held it for 3 consecutive years.

And all this achieved despite being told just over three years ago that she would never race again due to suffering from Chronic fatigue Syndrome!

Wow… I don’t think I’m ever phoning in sick ever again.

Find out more about Anna over at her official website. Or failing that - see what she’s up to RIGHT NOW by reading her Official Blog.

This kind of stuff is actually quite awesome and really does make you stop and think of what can be achieved when you really put your mind to it.
SpinVox are chuffed to bits to be Anna’s sponsor and wish her every success in 2008.

Good luck Anna, and congratulations from everyone here at SpinVox.

So much to blog and so little time…

I don’t know, seriously, you wait four days for something to write about when three things land in your lap at once.
Wherever shall I start?

At the beginning of course…

First up, coming in at the tail end of last week, is some BIG news!

The SpinVox Blog has won its first award…
Yes. That’s right. Here we are, seven posts in, and already the plaudits are flooding…

Eh?
What’s that?!
oh.

Sorry. There seems to have been some mistake. Umm…

It turns out it wasn’t the SpinVox BLOG that won the award after all.
It was in fact the SpinVox BLOGGING Product.
Well how am I supposed to know these things if no one tells me…

Last week, Blog through SpinVox was announced the winner of the “Best New Service“� category at the World Communications Awards!

The judges described Blogging through SpinVox as “Truly innovative and capturing the Zeitgeist“�. It also turns out we fought off very strong competition including entries from Orange Business Services, 3 and Colt Telecom.

Why not find out what all the fuss is about and signup for Blog through SpinVox yourself? I did.
And in the meantime I’ll try and figure out where we’re going to put our latest accolade.

Look out for another catch up post later on today before we pack ourselves off to Mobile Monday…