Sings:

“VIVA LAS VEGAS! VIVA LAS VEGAS!”

And I’m pretty certain that won’t be for the last time either… Hehehe.

Just a quick note to mention that SpinVox is off to the 2008 CTIA Wireless Conference this week.
The show itself runs from April 1-3 and will be hosted at the Las Vegas Convention Center which is in… er… Las Vegas!

You can find us at Booth 6603 – So if you want to come say ‘Hi’ then that’s where we’ll be.

I’m flying out tomorrow to (amongst other things) assist with the building of the stand (again).
You may remember that we caused quite a stir at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with all our many Mobsters… 2000 to be exact!

Well, we’ve shipped the whole stand to Las Vegas; SpinVox is coming to town and we’re bringing our army of Mobsters with us!

I don’t have any exclusive pictures/videos yet, (like before), but I HAVE managed to lay my hands on the final TOP SECRET design/blueprint…

Shh… Not sure I’m supposed to have this ^ but to hell with it!
It’s not like anyone’s gonna copy us is it?!

And finally…

You may or may not be aware that yours truly was interviewed for the extremely well-respected Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 regarding blogging for SpinVox…

If you missed it then you can read all about it via the two links below…

First Rory Cellan-Jones, Chief Technology Correspondent for the BBC, writes up his thoughts on “The Business of Blogging”

And second – Neil Bird, founder of technology blog ‘iGadget Life‘, gets an honourable mention for being the first blogger to report the story (and for also doing the hard work and hosting the exact clip from the show – you can listen to it here)

…Nice one Neil!

Way back when SpinVox was in Barcelona. I met a lovely chap called Jeremiah.
Goes by the name of ‘Pseudofinn’ online, (Google him – you’ll see).

Anyway, we had a chat about all things mobile-related and eventually we got onto the subject of SpinVox.

“Voice to text?! Eh?“

Well ‘Pseudofinn’ finally went and signed up a couple of weeks ago and now?

It seems he is “Simply Smitten with SpinVox“. Not only that but he also think it’s “ultra-cool“ too!

You can read why he feels this way over on his website – www.nokiausers.net

And if you like what he’s done there – you should definitely check out the Flickr Group he set up called:

“Speech Mobsters on the March Around the Globe!“

If you’ve got a SpinVox Speech Mobster, why not take a photo and add it to the group – (we have)
Some of the entries can be seen on the left column of this blog – under Mobster Pics – or you can click through and see the whole lot yourself.

I’ll be back later with some more link love…

Happy Friday Folks… It’s Chinposin time!

Not sure what the hell I’m on about? Read the Chinposin blog!

It’s a Friday thing in the name of avatar rejuvenation…

You MAY have noticed that aside from actually working for SpinVox and blogging for SpinVox and generally just being employed by SpinVox I am actually also a FAN of SpinVox!
Why?

Well – aside from it being just a BIT cool – it is also quite refreshing to have one of those services that just WORKS.

I know it’s a bit of an obvious one and all that but a lot people tend to ignore this one feature a lot of the time..

Anywhoo – the other day I was challenged to demonstrate the amazing power of SpinVox LIVE…

So I did.

And, thanks to our friends at Qik – here’s the results:

And if you can’t see the screen at the end – here’s a screenshot for you that makes it a bit clearer…

I thenkyou!

Hola!

We made it to Barcelona! WOOP WOOP!

…and I can tell you something: The SpinVox Stand looks AMAZING!

The team over here have worked tirelessly since late last week, getting our stand ready in time for the crazy kick off this morning.

And ready it is!

We finished up quite late last night but before we all toddled off and tucked ourselves in for the night, (and before the cleaners threw us out), I grabbed this video for you with an EXCLUSIVE first look at the SpinVox stand…

ENJOY!

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?

Greetings and a Happy New Year to you from everyone here at SpinVox!

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Moving on from that, what’s your calendar looking like for 2008?
Got anything exciting on the horizon?

Personally, I’m looking forward to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) starting in a few days – being a complete techno-geek myself I can’t wait to see what amazing advancements will be unveiled/announced.
I mean… we’re eight years into the 21st Century for crying out loud! We’ve got to get flying cars at some point… SURELY!

But, if CES turns out to be a let down, there’s always Mobile World Congress (the conference formally known as 3GSM) to look forward to in February.
If you’re not familiar with MWC/3GSM, don’t worry… neither am I!

But I am lead to believe it is THE place to be if you happen to be anywhere near the cutting edge of the mobile industry and, what with SpinVox winning the Mobile Innovation Award (two years ago I think it was now), I think it’d just be plain rude if we didn’t pop our heads in to say hi…

In the meantime – good luck, dearest readers, in the new year ahead and I’ll leave you with one of my favourite quotes:

“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.“

Have a good day!

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…

Are you a sheep or are you a shepherd?
Do you set trends or do you follow them?

May be you do neither; maybe you HUNT trends down in the middle of the night and make them your own!
Well if you did do that, if trend hunting was your thing…
Then you’d probably read something like TRENDHUNTER.COM

“That’s all well and good…“� I hear you cry “…but what the hell as that got to do with SpinVox?“�

Well, I’m glad you asked!
Those lovely people over at the aforementioned website of cool have gone and written a rather stonking article about turning your voicemail into text (that’ll be our area of expertise then) as well as enabling ‘talking to the web’.

Here’s a snippet of what they had to say:

“There has been all sorts of fuss lately from players such as Microsoft, Google and Apple about bringing the web to a mobile environment by using speech, the oldest form of communication. However, this is exactly why I think SpinVox should be mentioned as they have been doing this for over four years. They are experts in “talking” to the web or turning your voice mails into text, something which is becoming a very hot trend indeed.“�

Nice work!

You can read the rest of the article here, so I’d put on my trendiest pair of shoes and hotfoot it over there sharpish if only for the fantastic picture they’ve used to accompany the piece…

Y’see – now you’ve just got to click.

Go on.
Click!