SpinVox Signs Landmark Commercial Deal With Six Apart
SpinVox, the world expert in Voice-to-Screen™ messaging, today announced a deal with Six Apart, the leading independent blogging software and services company. The deal enables all 12 million Six Apart LiveJournal bloggers to post directly from any phone to their journals. SpinVox converts the blogger’s voice message to text and posts it on their LiveJournal — powering online communities, social networking and citizen journalism through voice.
This latest strategic signing for SpinVox reflects an industry trend for voice applications in Web 2.0 environments — other recent examples include Google Voice Local Search and Microsoft’s acquisition of Tellme. It is a major milestone for SpinVox which started trials of its Spin-my-Blog™ service just three months ago.
“Speaking is the easiest and most natural way to convey great ideas, thoughts or moments,” commented Christina Domecq, co-founder and CEO, SpinVox. “Sharing is also a natural impulse. By connecting the two simply and directly, we’re enabling people to share their life experiences in the most natural way. The voice-powered blogosphere is now available from any phone, anywhere.”
Mena Trott, co-founder and president of Six Apart, said: “This integration is a great way for blogging and voice to go hand-in-hand. By dialing a number, our customers can connect with millions of bloggers and communities with postings that are immediate and that capture the essence of the moment.”
This commercial deployment taps into the blogging phenomenon that has already generated the creation of more than 81 million blogs, capturing at least 1.6 million postings every day.1
There are already high-profile examples of SpinVox service Spin-my-Blog™ being used. One of the UK’s leading commercial blog publishers used the service at the 3GSM mobile conference in Barcelona so correspondents could post about new products as they saw them. Not only were their reviews the first to appear online, they were able to describe live events as they happened.2 EMAP radio station, Magic FM also recently launched a popular blog enabling their listeners to leave messages on Valentine’s and Mother’s Day and is now integrating the service as a strategic audience participation tool. The service enables blog publishers to either keep their posting number private, or publish the number and invite contributions from anyone with a phone.3
Domecq continued: “Voice-to-Screen is a reality and will enable a new form of user-generated content — voice from any phone, any network, anywhere.”
In establishing the Voice-to-Screen market, SpinVox has invested four years researching, developing and deploying a world-class, ISO-certified platform to deliver its innovative Voice-to-Screen messaging products to carriers and internet businesses.
SpinVox is a global company, headquartered in the UK, with offices in nine countries. Its services are available across four continents and in four languages: English, Spanish, French and German, with further languages in development.
1 Source www.technorati.com
2 See this at http://shinyspin.vox.com/
3 See this at http://mymagic1054.typepad.com/my_magic/mothers_day_2007/index.html
About SpinVox
SpinVox brought together the two most popular methods of communication — voice and text — and created a new category of messaging called Voice-to-Screen™. Its award-winning services are now driving new recurring revenues for mobile, Web 2.0 businesses and fixed-line operators around the world. SpinVox products are deploying via carriers such as Cincinnati Bell, Sasktel and Vodacom with more deals to be announced soon. In early 2007 SpinVox announced a working partnership with Skype to provide its services via VoIP.
SpinVox products include: Spin-my-Vmail™ – the world’s first voicemail to text service; Spin-my-Blog™ – speak a post to a blog from any phone, anywhere; Spin-my-Broadcast™ – speak a message and deliver it to multiple recipients and Spin-my-Memo™ – speak reminders, memos and notes which get sent as text straight to email.
SpinVox is the recipient of industry awards for innovation and business awards for entrepreneurship. Click here to see the full list: http://www.spinvox.com/news/awards.php
Voice-to-Screen and Voice Message Conversion System are registered trademarks of SpinVox Ltd.
About Six Apart
Six Apart Ltd. provides award-winning blogging software and services that change the way millions of individuals, organizations, and corporations connect and communicate across the world every day. Founded in 2002 by husband-and-wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott, Six Apart has grown into a global company with its headquarters in San Francisco, CA, and offices in Europe and Japan. The company continues to lead in the blogging and social media industry with the Movable Type publishing platform, the TypePad hosted blogging service, LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals, and Vox, a free blogging service for friends and families. For more information visit the Six Apart corporate web site at http://www.sixapart.com/.