By Ben Parr Mashable
When you need to send a voice note or a dictation to multiple contacts, Phonevite has always been a strong option. However, while it does have an iGoogle Gadget, Phonevite has mostly been limited to voice-to-phone sharing.
That was until today, when Phonevite opened the social media floodgates of its voice services. Starting today, you can not only send voice messages to your friends via phone, but you can also share recordings via Twitter (Twitter reviews), Facebook (Facebook reviews), MySpace (MySpace reviews), email or just embed the audio directly to your website.
Once you have made a voice recording (either via a recording browser app or via phone), the recording will appear in your recording inbox. Now, however, you’ll see five small icons at the bottom for each of the key social services and embeds...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
How Twitter Was Founded (CLIP)
By Nicholas Carlson
Here's Twitter cofounders Biz Stone and Ev Williams at the All Things D conference explaining how Twitter was their second idea for a startup after the first one they tried after quitting Google failed.
The other interesting part of the interview comes when Walt Mossberg drops a telling stat: 51% of people with Twitter accounts don't use it once a month. Twitter CEO Ev Williams says the number raises a question the startup knows it has to answer: How does Twitter go from a thing everyone's heard of to a thing everyone uses everday?
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Here's Twitter cofounders Biz Stone and Ev Williams at the All Things D conference explaining how Twitter was their second idea for a startup after the first one they tried after quitting Google failed.
The other interesting part of the interview comes when Walt Mossberg drops a telling stat: 51% of people with Twitter accounts don't use it once a month. Twitter CEO Ev Williams says the number raises a question the startup knows it has to answer: How does Twitter go from a thing everyone's heard of to a thing everyone uses everday?
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AOL Officially Sweeps Embarrassing Bebo Saga Under The Rug (TWX)
We hear it's a bit early in the morning for high-fives over at AOL HQ, but that doesn't mean AOLers don't have plenty of reasons to celebrate after Time Warner's (TWX) board approved an AOL's spin-off last night.
Not the least of them: As a part of the re-org that will follow the spin-off, new CEO Tim Amstrong plans to take a stiff brush to its $850 million social network Bebo and firmly sweep it under the rug
Bebo, as well as start-ups AOL has bought recently, such as the Userplane social media apps unit and its Truveo video search service, will be “relocated” into AOL Ventures. Each will operate on their own, and AOL will try to get venture capitalists to invest in them.
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Not the least of them: As a part of the re-org that will follow the spin-off, new CEO Tim Amstrong plans to take a stiff brush to its $850 million social network Bebo and firmly sweep it under the rug
Bebo, as well as start-ups AOL has bought recently, such as the Userplane social media apps unit and its Truveo video search service, will be “relocated” into AOL Ventures. Each will operate on their own, and AOL will try to get venture capitalists to invest in them.
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