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Going to 3GSM? Live Review it!

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

February 10, 2008

Pat Phelan from Cubic Telecom came up with the great idea of getting attendees to review what catches their eye at 3GSM in Barcelona from Feb 11th to 14th. So if you are going, we’d love to get your insights via any of the review methods we support. Just follow these easy steps: Sign-up to LouderVoice if you haven’t already In “My Settings” add as many of these sources as you like: Mobile phone number for SMS reviews Twitter/Jaiku/Pownce accounts for microblog mini-reviews Blog RSS feed for Flag Tag Reviews Then you send reviews as follows: On your mobile/cell (Review Rating1-5 ItemName: Opinion.

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Third Competition Winner

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

February 4, 2008

The third week of the competition is over and we can now announce the winner of a Hairy Baby t-shirt. []2 Laurence Veale from Dublin in Ireland wins with his sharp Twitter review of the western “3.10 to Yuma”. As with all the winners, it looks like Lar’s Google juice is strong. There is only one week left in this first phase of our competition, so get reviewing and you could win a tee like this:

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Easy Blog Reviews with Flag Tags

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

January 29, 2008

The approach we have taken with reviews on blogs until now has been built around a standard called hreview. Many bloggers are a fan of this portable format and we continue to support it strongly. But we have received many requests for something more lightweight which still enables people to get their reviews into LouderVoice but takes much less effort. After trying a variety of approaches we have settled on something we are calling Flag Tags (thanks to Frank Prendergast for coining this).

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Second Competition Winner

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

January 28, 2008

The second week of the competition is over and we can now announce the winner of a Hairy Baby t-shirt. Mark Twomey from Cork in Ireland wins with his hilarious review of the Gillette Fusion Power razor. As with last week’s winner, Mark is vying for top spot on google.ie. Well done Mark. His review of Sweeney Todd is pure genius too! As before, get your reviews in by any of the methods we support and you win a funky t-shirt with a logo like this:

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Can you review a wine in 7 words?

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

January 24, 2008

Julian from Bubble Brothers let us know about the wonderful Wine Blogging Wednesday community and what they get up to. The idea is simple: Different bloggers propose ideas for themes or topics for each month and one becomes the host for the month. Participating bloggers then buy a wine that is consistent with the theme and blog their tasting notes on or before the Wednesday of the event. All of the opinions are then summarised and linked to on a roundup page.

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First Competition Winner

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

January 20, 2008

The first week of the competition is over and we can now announce the winner of a Hairy Baby t-shirt. John Goodman from Wicklow in Ireland wins with his SMS mini-review of comedian Tommy Tiernan’s “OK Baby”. This was the most read review on the site over the past week. Not only that, but his review tops Google and beats the official site in the search rankings! So get your reviews in by any of the methods we support and not only might you win a funky t-shirt with a logo like this:

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LouderVoice sponsoring The Irish Blog Awards

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

January 15, 2008

We’re really pleased to announce that we are sponsoring the Best Blog Post award at the 2008 Irish Blog Awards on March 1st in Dublin. Given that so much of LouderVoice is about bloggers and great review blogposts, it only seemed appropriate. A big thank you to Damien Mulley for once again organising the awards. The past year has seen the Irish blogosphere becoming more and more visible to a mainstream audience.

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Tag your mini-reviews

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

January 15, 2008

This is a little bit of a niche feature but several users have asked for it so we added tagging to mini-reviews on LouderVoice. The idea here is that normally if you send a review by SMS or Twitter/Jaiku/Pownce then it doesn’t have any user defined category like “wine” or “movie”. However, with “hashtags”, if you add these tags/labels onto your review then we’ll pick them up. It is very easy to do, just prefix any words you want to use as tags/labels with # in your SMS or on Twitter/Pownce.

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Win Prizes for your Reviews

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

January 12, 2008

We are thrilled to announce our first competition on LouderVoice. For the next few weeks Hairy Baby will give one of their fantastic standard t-shirts to the most popular review of each week. If you haven’t seen these t-shirts then you are really missing out. They are the funniest, wittiest ones you are likely to find and are made from the highest quality materials too. Entering the competition is simple. Submit a review using any of the methods we support (SMS, Blog, Microblog) and each week we’ll look at all those submitted and the most popular one wins.

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We now support Pownce too

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

December 21, 2007

We just enabled support for Pownce that is identical to our Twitter and Jaiku support. Just make sure your reviews are sent to the public on Pownce and use http://www.pownce.com/feeds/public/your_user_name as the RSS feed when adding it to your sources on LouderVoice. This on Pownce: Becomes this on LouderVoice: As always, let us know here if you have any feedback or problems.

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