Just stumbled across this today and thought it was mention worthy. I don’t want to give a full review yet because I really haven’t gotten the chance to start using it. I’m talking about Jott. It’s a free, and simple, voice to email tool.
I stumbled across this thing at 5:00 and it’s now 5:18 and I’ve already got everything setup and had time to power up my blog to make this post. Everything is an absolute breeze. Even the confirmation process is flawless. You call a number and the second your call goes through, the page your on updates and shows the confirmation. Sort of hard to explain, but you should register just to see it! What a great idea of using caller ID to verify.
Here’s how it works. Sign up first. Once your registered and have confirmed your email and phone number, import your contacts from Outlook or whatever. You can do it manually or import from a .csv. In outlook, just goto File -> Import export. Follow the directions and only export your contacts. Simple!
Now for sending an email. you call up the toll-free number where you are then prompted for the contact name. Jott then repeates the name for confirmation and then you can speak your email. I’ve tried a few and have yet to find a single spelling mistake. Not to mention its very quick to. I got the emails seconds after I spoke them.
For some of the down sides….of course they add their own signature at the bottom of the emails, so this thing isn’t business ready just yet. It’s still in Beta afterall. It would also be nice to have the option to SMS someone a message, instead of only emailing. Not necessary, but would be a nice touch. That’s about it for the negatives.
The site, from a design and usability standpoint, is incredible. The layout is simple and clean and also very effective. As for navigation, I would give it a 7 / 10 though. It’s a bit rough to get to where you want at first. Once you get past the learning curve though, it’s pretty easy. I’m lazy though and want things to be instantly simple.
Think I’ve said about all I wanted to. Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think!
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I’m not sure if any of my readers know this, but I am currently a Business major at the Georgia Institute of Technology with a focus on Information Technology Management and Finance. After a tough day of classes and work, I came home and turned on the television. After a few hours of ESPN (can you believe Jose Canseco? This guy is a total scum bag and I frankly can’t believe anyone listens to what he has to say, regardless of some of the Truth in Juiced) I turned on FOX News (Yes, I am conservative!) to see how the stock market was doing since some indicators came out today showing that the economy was indeed slowing.
One of the first things I noticed was the picketing going on at Bear Sterns regarding their government bailout and how people from all over the country came to protest because they thought they should be receiving that money. ARE YOU F****** SERIOUS? The guy that set this whole thing up is a pretty respected individual and leader of Assistance Corporation of America (Forbes story here)….but I can’t believe some of the things he was basing his argument on. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the government should be bailing out any company that got themselves into a huge mess, let the market handle things like that. But this guy was trying to say that people didn’t know what they were getting themselves into. They were the IDIOTS that didn’t fully read the mortgage note and realize that rates could rise to the 14% mark. I don’t care how hard someone was pressuring me into something, I’m going to take my sweet ass time reading everything I can before I go and make what will likely be the largest purchase of my life.
It has almost gotten to a point of ignorance. These people, which are barely 5% of the total mortgage population, expect US, the tax payers that DID read what we were supposed to, to bail them out. NO FREAKIN’ WAY. This is a huge reason why I am such the conservative I am. It is not our job as a population to dig out the idiots of our society that refuse to do something as simple as reading through their loan application. Medical care to everyone…MAYBE. But this….it will be a cold day before I agree with this.
I also would like to bring up another interesting point…these people OPTED into a mortgage. Nobody said you "had to buy a house." These people were too blinded by the low payments, that they totally forgot about the risk associated with an adjustable rate mortgage. These people are the people that should have been RENTING, hence their sub-prime status.
As soon as someone gets the video posted online, I’ll be sure to get it on here.
PS - You think getting money was easy for lenders before and was a cause of the sub-prime melt down. Just wait…money is at historic lows, and in my opinion, will continue to decline. Money will flow like wine and we’ll see ourselves in the same situation in the near future again if we don’t learn from our actions and let the MARKET make the corrections.
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I’m surprised that I really haven’t heard a lot about this yet, but someone came up with a compressed version of the prototype.js and scriptaculous.js library in a single file. Obviously it’s called Protoaculous and it really made a difference on the new nFrontSecurity site I’m developing.
You can download it from http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core/files or directly HERE.
Also, if you guys wouldn’t mind checking out the new site and letting me know what you think. Our dev is going on at nostupidpasswords.com
Thanks!
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