May 04, 2007

Jott. Okay, it is the weekend. Few if any are going to post comments. But this, the Jott service, needs your attention.

First, it is free. Second, from any phone in the upper 2/3rds of North America you can dial a toll free number and leave a 30-second voice mail message for any of your contacts. The message is reliably translated into text, and e-mailed to the recipient(s). Free. Free. Did I say Free? Or, it can be sent to cell phones. Voice translation goes bad? No problem, audio file can be listened to as a backup. Bored with the notion of entering all your contacts? They get automatically transferred from Outlook, OE, GMail, Yahoo, and so on. I am rarely impressed by new web-based gadgets. This one has my apt attention.

posted by RalphTheDog 16 years ago
  • rapt, alph did i mention that i am a weak man?
  • Pretty damn cool. This'll be great for when I wake up in the middle of the night remembering shit I forgot to do during the day. But where's my personal jetpack?
  • >>The message is reliably translated into text, My hovercraft is full of eels.
  • For a split-second I thought this was going to be about THIS Jot
  • This is pretty cool.
  • How is this service being paid for?
  • Aha. In the TOS and Privacy Policy. They're reading the content of your messages in order to send relevant advertising. No, thanks. But then most of you guys don't have a problem with Gmail, either.
  • except they are not sending advertising.
  • So, I've set up a script that automatically logs in to my MoFi account when email arrives to secret mail account I set up; the script posts an FPP based on the text of the email. Now with Jott, all I have to do is pick up the nearest greasy payphone, speak my post and run like hell! Thanks, Ralph!!
  • ><((((º>`´¯`·.¸¸><((((º> ¸.·´¯`·.><((((º>
  • Oops sorry wrong thread
  • Wrong thread or not, nicely done! ***This comment was posted via Jott***EAT NEW MOJITO FLAVORED DORITOS!!***
  • briank, thanks! Heh. Jot.
  • I enjoyed looking at that ASCII art while eating my McDonald's Premium Crispy Chicken Sandwich. I'm having the Ranch BLT, in case anyone is wondering.
  • Dude, there's like pig parts in that.
  • I'm assuming they'll get you hooked on their free service, then start advertising. In the emails it sends to your friends, is my guess. Bastards.
  • Oh, and great ASCII fish.
  • They're bastards for something they MIGHT do? So, um, Lara, you don't partake in any media that includes advertising? That'd be hard. Even my ATM spouts adverts.
  • I don't mind advertising. I mind my emails/messages being mined for keywords to target it.