The Agile Micro ISV Blog

Typing your blog posts is like so 2006.

A few months ago I had the good fortune to be hired by a great company in Marlow (UK) called SpinVox. I hadn’t heard of them when I got the call but was very impressed by what I subsequently read and experienced.

Started by Christina Domecq and Daniel Doulton in May of 2003, SpinVox has very quickly established itself as the de facto voice-to-screen provider world wide. SpinVox offer 2 services that will easily be of interest to either the Micro ISV, or the serious blogger.

Spin-my-VMail  is a service by which a
voice-mail is converted to an email and/or a SMS text message. For
micro ISV users, this means that you can offer a phone number for
support or sales, but not feel guilty for not manning it 24/7.
Support/sales requests can easily be picked up on your mobile or
Blackberry.

Spin-my-Blog is a similar service, but for
bloggers. Essentially, you call your SpinVox number and record your
voice message. The message will then appear on your blog as text. Neat.
SpinVox even go so far as to allow readers of your blog to leave
comments using their phone, again, appearing as text on your blog. Blog
posts are currently limited to 60 seconds of voice time, so I think it
would be better suited to “on-the-scene reports” from conferences, geek
dinners, airports etc.

SpinVox has a very likeable public persona. For family reasons, I
was only able to spend a few weeks with them developing a new UI for
one of their applications, but I can declare this: they are just as
likeable from the inside, and in today’s ultra-competitive marketplace,
that is no mean feat.

As for me, my to-do list for this week includes getting a SpinVox
account. I hope to be spinning at least some of my future blog posts
from then on.

Something else I learnt while I was there – it’s amazing just how
many people use the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in a voice
message!