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LouderVoice short-listed for Irish Web Awards

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

September 27, 2008

If we were excited to be on the long-list, we’re utterly gobsmacked to be shortlisted for best new Web Application/Service in the Irish Web Awards. It’s not just that we’re in the shortlist, look at the awesome apps we are in with:   Bookmeetingroom – I only wrote about this great app recently on Web2Ireland PollDaddy – I use this ALL the time. One of my fave webapps ever.  Twitterfone – Not just dead useful, one of the most beautiful web-site designs of 2008.

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LouderVoice long-listed in the Irish Web Awards

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

September 15, 2008

This is the inaugural year for the Irish Web Awards and we’re giddier than the giddiest people in Giddytown to be in the long-list for Best New Web Application/Service. It’s one hell of a set of webapps there and we’re humbled to be in with them.

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Announcing Simple SMS Reviews

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

September 14, 2008

We kicked off SMS reviewing last year using the same structured message format which we devised for Twitter and Jaiku. Whilst it suits a lot of our users, particularly those who want their reviews to appear instantly, many others felt that the structure was overly complex. Based on this user feedback, we are now launching Simple SMS Reviews. The idea here is that you send your review to the same number as before (+353-87-9409325 or +44-778-6205133), you begin your SMS with the keyword “Re” and then the remainder of the SMS is your review in whatever style you like.

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LouderVoice on The Right Hook

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

September 8, 2008

Conor is on The Right Hook radio show this evening on Newstalk with Joe Drumgoole from PutPlace. He’ll be talking about the LouderVoice service in general and kicking off an SMS reviews push in conjunction with the show. You can listen live on the web here. As part of this, we are launching our Simple SMS Review service. There’ll be more detail in the next post but the key point is that unlike the existing service, no structure is required on your reviews.

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Get LouderVoice support on Get Satisfaction

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

July 28, 2008

We’ve had lots of feedback that our support mechanisms on LouderVoice were weak. Up until today, you could email info@ or leave a comment here on the blog. We know this isn’t good enough and have decided to make use of Get Satisfaction to provide a better service in this area. You’ll see the Get Satisfaction logo in the sidebar of every page. If you run into any problems at all with the site or find things you don’t understand, then click on the logo.

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Taste of Cork Competition Winner

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

July 8, 2008

The results are in and the winner of the gorgeous Spicendipity BBQ Hamper is Katie Murphy from Cork. Congratulations Katie, the hamper is on its way from Tullamore right now. Her review of TOC matched our own experiences perfectly.

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Win a Gift Hamper for Taste of Cork Reviews

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

June 24, 2008

The Taste of Cork Food Festival is coming this weekend in the deep south of Ireland. There will by myriad stands offering food and beverages to sample including lots of famous Munster Artisan producers. We’re partnering with several of the exhibitors including Ummera and Bubble Brothers to encourage those who attend to review both the event and the individual stands. Reviews can be submitted by any of the usual methods but SMS seems the most appropriate.

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LouderVoice now supported on Profilactic

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

June 15, 2008

Profilactic has been doing Lifestreaming longer than most. It’s a site where you pull in your profiles from all your social sites like Twitter/Jaiku/Pownce/Bebo/MySpace etc so that your aggregated activity online is visible from one place. It currently supports 186 different social sites and we’re thrilled that they have just added LouderVoice. Once you’ve signed up for an account, you just have to provide your LouderVoice username for them to pull in the titles of your reviews into your Profilactic lifestream.

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New version of LouderVoice WordPress Plug-in

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

June 4, 2008

Many thanks to Loud Reviewer Frank Prendergast for spotting a bug in our WordPress plug-in. This bug prevented users from setting review posts to publish in the future. The bug has now been fixed and the updated plug-in is available here. You’ve probably noticed how quiet we’ve been on the blog. Not only have we been fixing a lot of small bugs on the site that crept in with the Version2 launch but we’re been working hard on building our API.

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Another competition winner

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

April 3, 2008

We closed the first phase of the reviews competition a few weeks ago but we were so blown away by the review by Alx Cahiz of the stunning Dervish Longboard that we had to give him a prize. This wasn’t just review of the week, I think it was review of the month! Looking forward to seeing what else he comes up with. It should also be said that TeamGearedUp is one of the best blogs out there about outdoor sports and activities.

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