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Well… Ok.
Maybe not THE Amy Winehouse.
;D
But still, it’s good to see the SpinVox Speech Mobsters on the move at Glastonbury again, do you remember seeing them there last year?
Thanks for the photos Matt, we love them.
Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkListAs promised last week, here we have another Twitter / SpinVox-themed blog post for your consumption.
We’ve talked about this before but, what with our recent press release around the uptake we’ve seen in Tweets being spoken through SpinVox I thought I’d add another quick ‘How to’ guide to our blogging collection on how to speak your updates to twitter…
This is open to anyone in the UK, Canada or the US – ready?
Step 1) Get yourself to http://ping.fm/signup/spinvox
Hint: It looks like this:
Step 2) Go through the oh so simple (five step) signup process.
(not forgetting to add Twitter to your dashboard)
Step 3) Dial the number you get given at the end and then you’re ready to… PING THROUGH SPINVOX!
It’s that easy, a monkey could do it 
Give it a go, you might like the results…
A bit of Friday fun for you dear readers..
Given THE RECENT OPENING OF OUR API! – ahem – I thought I’d share this little nugget that I spotted this in my Twitter stream late last week.
SpinVox fan and all round nice guy, Nik Butler – aka @Loudmouthman – has this handy tip for using the rather awesome Evernote iPhone app in conjunction with the equally awesome (and free!) SpinVox Memo service.
Nik, over to you…
(needs sound)
How cool is THAT?! 
Now imagine if you took evernote, combined it with audioboo (that’s that lovely piece of audio up there) and the threw the whole thing the SpinVox Create API Programme… Well, the mind boggles.
And actually, what are you waiting for?
Heh.
In the meantime, I’ve asked Nik if he wouldn’t mind authoring a guest post for Big Talk sometime in the near future. Hopefully he’ll go into this process in a bit more detail as well as tell us more about all the other ways he uses SpinVox throughout his life. He’s a very busy man, but as soon as it’s ready to go – I’ll post it up for your reading pleasure
And that’s about it for this week folks, a very busy one indeed…
If you have any interesting ways of using SpinVox that you’ve discovered then by all means mail them in and I’ll get them up on the blog – the address is, as ever – james dot whatley at spinvox dot com
Bon Weekend!
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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
Upload or buy music from Twestival.fm
Follow Calgary Twestival on Twitter
Have a great one guys… AND ROLL ON THURSDAY!
This morning at 10am UK time, the SpinVox judging panel assembled to review yesterday’s entries to..
The ‘FREE SPINVOX‘ Competition!
After much deliberation, concentration and argumentation our crack-commando team decided were still undecided! They have however managed to pull together a ‘Top Three’.
This is made up of each Judge’s favourite entry.
Three Judges = Three Entries = A Top Three
They are as follows:
@lovelychaos with:
@jclayville with
and @pfig with
Now I’ve just spoken to the powers that be and word has reached these ears that, instead of disappointing the final favourites (and reducing the Judging panel to fisticuffs) -
SpinVox is in fact going to award a FREE SpinVox account to all THREE of the Top Three!
So that’s a SpinVox Voicemail account to @pfig, @lovelychaos and @jclayville!
Guys, get in touch and I’ll tell what the next steps are – james dot whatley at SpinVox dot com
…
Thank you to ALL that entered, all entries can be seen via #svcomp and also, so that there’s no hard feelings – ALL entrants automatically win themselves a SpinVox Speech Mobster sticker merely for taking part!
Simply drop me an email to the address above, with the URL to your entry as well as your postal address and I’ll get a sticker out you ASAP!
Thanks again guys,
You all rock!
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If you’re not on Twitter, get there now!
Today I’m giving away one TOTALLY FREE SpinVox Voicemail account and all you have to do is tell SpinVox why it should go to you…
RULES
Your message must be sent over Twitter and your response must also include the hashtag of ‘#svcomp’.
Not sure what I mean?
Check out how these guys are already taking part here:
Winner to be announced tomorrow at 10am UK Time…
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Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkListGood day to you fellow SpinVoxers…
My good friend and buddy Steve Lamb – aka @actionlamb – and I were talking SpinVox on Twitter today when he prompted the idea for this blog post…
- Just do it -
SpinVox, as some of you may or may not know, has many many uses/applications… Aside from the multitude of services that we offer, there is an abundance of ways that these can be utilized…
Case in point – I often use SpinVox Memo for taking notes and/or recording content for my personal blog as you can see here. However, how I use it is not important – at least, I don’t think so.
The interesting stuff is in how YOU use SpinVox. I took the liberty of casting the question out over Twitter not too long after the above conversation with Steve took place and well, here are some of the responses:
That last one is an interesting one re: Evernote. I’ve asked @loudmouthman to see if he wouldn’t mind expanding on those thoughts and maybe writing a guest post for Big Talk.
Watch this space… In the meantime: How do you use yours?!
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We haven’t taken a look at our lovely wall of magnets for a while,
…what does it say today/?
And with that, I shall you bode you farewell – muchos postos to come this month from yours truly – so hang on tight – January’s going to be postalicious!
See you soon!
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At last! It’s FRIDAY!
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
And yes, you’re back here again to see some more action from our friends at Fur TV. Here we have the fifth and final video from Lapeno and the boys… This time answering that age old question:
Do Condoms Reduce Sensitivity?
The Staying-Alive Foundation has been Telling it like it is for ten years now..
And it’s about time you got involved with Telling it Like it is too.
Pick up the phone (numbers below) and tell the Fur TV boys one of your stories.
Your voice will be converted into text and posted up on the Telling it like it is blog.
UK : 0151 266 7700
US: 1513 729 6417
Canada: 1416 628 8501
Spain: 3493 184 2078
Germany: 4921 123 7061072
France: 3317 666 0863
Ireland: 3531 657 1891
This is the last time we’re going to publish these numbers so we’d really REALLY like you to pick up the phone and take part.. Make your voice count.
(I’m going over to the blog now to read up on what’s been said so far)
hehe..
Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkListHappy Thursday Folks, if you’re back here today to see another Fur TV video then you will not be disappointed!
If this is your first time here, where have you beeeeeeeeeeeen?! What have you been doing!?
Get yourself off and read last week’s post and start from there… THEN work your way back through the blog and see the other videos… and THEN take look at today’s effort..
…which is below by the way 
Watched it? Liked it?
Well it’s about time you got involved with Telling it Like it is
Pick up the phone (numbers below) and tell the Fur TV boys one of your stories.
Your voice will be converted into text and posted up on the Telling it like it is blog.
UK : 0151 266 7700
US: 1513 729 6417
Canada: 1416 628 8501
Spain: 3493 184 2078
Germany: 4921 123 7061072
France: 3317 666 0863
Ireland: 3531 657 1891
Go on, give it a go..
