Attention online shoppers!  Today Broadsoft opened up a new eCommerce-enabled marketplace that makes it super simple for visitors to directly browse and purchase communications applications and services – such as SpinVox Voicemail-to-Text.

As part of the mission of the new Xtended Marketplace, Broadsoft will focus efforts on making available applications and services that ‘deliver value, solve real-life challenges and meet the lifestyle of users by providing a more integrated communications experience for businesses and consumers’.

SpinVox Voicemail-to-Text is one of three featured services/applications available in this respect.  The new Xtended Marketplace is currently in beta phase with a full launch scheduled for Q1 2010,

In the (paraphrased) words of Broadsoft, “The launch of the BroadSoft Marketplace is a significant milestone in the IP communications industry… service providers can immediately capitalize on and monetize the creative innovation of this developer community, while delivering value-added communications applications to their subscribers.”

If you happen to be in Scottsdale on 25-28^th October or are already attending the Broadsoft Connections Conference stop by the ‘Show Me The Apps’ session where Broadsoft will demo the online purchasing and provisioning of the new marketplace. And you can read more about it here.

Hey folks,
I hope this finds you well, we’re all just about to head off to Easter Break/Passover and before we pack up I thought I’d take a moment and share something that came out of last week’s CTIA Wireless Conference…

With over 1200 different companies vying for attention; How do you stand out?

How do you start a conversation?

’til next time…

It seems like only last week I showed you that awesome video about our stand at Mobile World Congress. That would be of course, because was only last week! Still not seen it? Go see it now!

For those of you who were paying attention, you’ll know that SpinVox was in Las Vegas last week, attending  the CTIA Wireless conference. Not one to do things by halves, the SpinVox Speech Mobsters aka – The Guardians of Voice – were out in force and well, they made quite the impact!

This post from Top Ten Reviews was one of my favourites:

Now that is a blog post I can get behind!

Aside from the Guardians of Voice being the talk of the town, the real story was that of the ‘SpinVox Create‘ API Programme going live to the masses, if you’re still in the dark about that particular subject – get yourself over to our designated signup page and get involved!

Thanks to all that made our stand at CTIA such a resounding success, the teams all over the world pulled out all the stops to make this one of our best stands yet. Well done!

And if the photo above isn’t clear enough, there’s a whole bunch of other photos uploaded on Picasa for you to browse/peruse/enjoy at your pleasure…

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It’s been just over a month since SpinVox was at Mobile World Congress and (while our team in the US is setting up our stand in Las Vegas for this year’s CTIA Wireless event), I thought I’d take this moment to share a short video with you, dearest reader.

1min 50secs of loveliness from our friends at Freestate on what SpinVox did in Barcelona and just some of the experiences, thoughts and reactions captured there.

Enjoy.

Have Your Voice Heard by G20 Leaders

This week sees leaders from all over the world convene in London for this year’s G20 Summit.
The G20, for those of you that don’t know, is laid out as an informal forum that promotes open and constructive discussion between industrial and emerging-market countries on key issues related to global economic stability.

By contributing to the strengthening of the international financial architecture and providing opportunities for dialogue on national policies, international co-operation, and international financial institutions, the G20 aims to help support growth and development across the globe.

Topics high on the agenda for this year’s summt are tackling the worldwide recession that is affecting us all and of course, the more long term problem of climate change.

It goes without that these leaders will be locked away in their own meeting room, away from the public eye and behind a veritable fortress of security; so making sure your voice is heard will prove no easy task.

Fortunately…

SpinVox has teamed up with our friends at Moblog to help support the G20Voice project.
Fr this next part, I think I’ll hand over to Alfie Dennen, co-founder of Moblog and G20Voice supporter:

“The G20Voice project represents an amazing opportunity to give people around the world a voice that can be heard at the G20 Summit, and that’s where Moblog and our voice partner SpinVox come in.

Through the Spinvox voice to text service and Moblog’s mobile blogging platform, we are able to provide a service enabling people all over the world to simply call a local number to ask a world leader attending the summit a question. The technology converts the speech to text, and posts it along with the audio to the G20Voice moblog. All of the questions asked will be collated and the best of them will be asked directly of the world leaders to whom they are posed….”

There are 50 bloggers that have been chosen to attend the summit and they will be your voice. To ask the question that matters most to you, simply call the relevant number below and speak to the G20Voice directly:

• Canada:+15199629984
• France:+33177682327
• Germany: +49211237020865
• Italy:+390662207397
• Spain:+34951247227
• UK:+441613696823
• USA:+18314989119

Your message will be converted to text and, along with the audio, posted directly to the web for everyone to hear at the G20Voice website If you are accessing the site on a mobile device simply visit
http://m.moblog.net/voice

If you are in the following Latin American countries, your posts will be made to our Latin American partner site Bligoo, call the relevant number below to ask your question:

• Mexico:+525585256238
• ARGENTINA:+541150773167
• Brazil:+552140639557
• CHILE:+5626563916

The G20Voice project has already achieved so much; being able to bring 50 bloggers from around the world to the summit with press accreditation is a landmark event. People who would otherwise never be heard at the G20 Summit now have a voice, and for that SpinVox and Moblog are honoured to be a part of the G20Voice project…

Last week saw the 3rd annual ICA Figures of Speech Gala in association with SpinVox

The event saw several high-profile speakers take to the stage and spend five minutes (no more, no less) talking about the one thing that they could not live without, i.e.:

If your house was on fire and your family were safe, what would be the one thing you would run in and save?

The roll-call on the night included such luminaries as musician and campaigner Bob Geldof, journalist and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter and comedian and broadcaster Rory Bremner, along with musician, artist and writer Billy Childish; Inspirational Kids Company founder Camilla Batmanghelidj and contemporary artist du jour Ryan Gander.

And to celebrate the event I put the same question to my Twitter followers:

The answers came back thick and fast, mainly concentrating in and around tech – laptops, hard drives etc… but there were some really quite interesting ones in there too…

Take a look –

I’ve asked some of the guests who joined me on the evening of the event to write theirs up too…

What about you dear reader? Have a good, long think…
What one thing would you run in and save if your house was burning down?

What is the one thing that you cannot live without?

Answers in a blog post please

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A week ago today, our friends at Porter Novelli invited yours truly along to its ‘Everything Twitter’ day to speak on behalf of SpinVox and explain how & why we use Twitter on a day to day basis.

The title we were given to work to was:

“Extending customer service and the Social Media perspective.”
- James Whatley, SpinVox

Freelance Journalist Guy Clapperton, ITV Web Editor Gary Andrews and a couple of Porter Novelli representatives (Matt Morrison and Nick Scargill), also spoke on the day, the former couple bringing their own take on using Twitter for business and the latter explaining the why, the what, the where and of course – the how… (although it must be said that both of SpinVox’s favourite Twitter tools – Ping.fm and Dabr – were scandalously overlooked)

Anyway, the overall aim of which was to aid and assist the attendees in understanding Twitter, what it can be used for and the pitfalls to look out for when taking your first early steps, something which I personally think was achieved fantastically well by all parties involved.

Covering everything from hashtags to hash-jobs, you can read more about the day itself, (as well as download a free copy of their official guide – pictured above) via PN’s very own write up which can be found on their blog.

In the meantime however, here’s the SpinVox presentation in glorious technicolor for your delectation:

Rife with imagery, the presentation itself tells you very little. So I recommend jumping over to the Slideshare page itself where you can view the above, but this time with notes (which makes the whole thing much more easier to digest).

Hope you find it useful and hey, if you get a moment – why not leave a comment and let us know how do you use Twitter?

For business purposes or otherwise…

Greetings one and all!

Here is, for your delectation, a short trip around the SpinVox stand at this year’s Mobile World Congress from yours truly via our friends at Mobile Industry Review!

Roll Tape!

MIR MWC: James Whatley Introduces the SpinVox Stand from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.

Thoughts, opinions, comments?

Oh yes, and those numbers on the demo card that I gave to Ewan?

They are:

English – +441212808081
English (US) – +18885927165
English (CA) – + 16474775779
Spanish – +34938021221
Spanish (US) – +18885927179
Spanish (Lat Am) – +541150773199
French – +33176660501
French (CA) – +1647 477 6033
German – +49211237061191
Italian – +390662207193
Portugese – +551140630478

Why not give one a go!

Yes indeed ladies and gentlemen, it’s that time of year again. It’s time for the mobile mania that is:

Mobile World Congress!

The Guardians of Voice are coming to set you free…

Stay tuned.

SpinVox LOVES Calgary Twestival

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It’s Twestival time!

On 12 February 2009 200+ cities around the world will be hosting Twestivals which bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water.

In fact – the latest press release from Twestival Global HQ says that:

“In just one month, from volunteer effort alone, global Twitter-based charity event Twestival has created events in 175+ cities, predicted to raise $1 million for the 1.1billion people in the world who can’t access clean drinking water. Growing beyond all expectations since launching in January 2009, Twestival takes place for 24 hours on February 12th, everywhere from Bethlehem to Birmingham, Beijing to Boston, as up to 20,000 come together inspired by community and charity.”

One of those 175+ cities is Calgary in Alberta, Canada – They’re hosting Calgary Twestival
One of the Chief Organisers is @Roger – aka Roger Kondrat – friend of SpinVox and all round nice chap…

Hang on – we’re getting ahead of ourselves.. Some explanations needed:

Twestival, in case you were wondering is a Twitter Festival.

A Festival for Twitterers if you will.

Originally setup as a fun way to meet new folk, put faces to avatars and to also, make some money for charity; Twestival is now a monster worldwide operation with nearly the entire world population of Twitter taking place!

Of course, Twitter being all about communication – it just makes sense for SpinVox to get involved somehow. So today we are pleased to announce that every single Calgary Twestival attendee will walk away with a brand spanking new 1 year’s TOTALLY FREE subscription to SpinVox!

The whole Twestival thing ROCKS our SOCKS here at SpinVOX (see what I did there?), so we’re pulling our socks up and mucking in with the best of them.

You can too -

Buy tickets for Calgary Twestival

Donate to Charity:Water

Find a Twestival in your City

Upload or buy music from Twestival.fm

Follow Twestival on Twitter

Follow Calgary Twestival on Twitter

Have a great one guys… AND ROLL ON THURSDAY!