We’ve just found out that one of the most prolific bloggers on LouderVoice, ManicMammy, was referenced by the Wall Street Journal in an article about virtual pets and Webkinz. The mission of LouderVoice has always been to get the valuable opinions and knowledge of great reviewers heard. ManicMammy is one of a growing breed who actually started blogging so that they could get their reviews online in one place where there reputation resides.
We thought we’d have some fun with Dave Winer‘s TwitterGram idea. You can upload MP3’s to TwitterGram and the service will send a Tweet on Twitter with a link to it so that people can listen to it. Robert Scoble did some reviews using it and we realised that it can work perfectly with LouderVoice via LouderTweets/LouderMinis. If you want to do an audio review it really is trivial. Sign Up on Twitter
If you are a Twitter user and want to send reviews of Oxegen from your phone to us, you do not have to be signed up on LouderVoice. All you have to do is this: Add the the oxegen user as a friend on Twitter. You’ll be added back within a few minutes. make sure your mobile number is registered with them Start sending your reviews by SMS to +447624801423 in the following format: @oxegen 5 Queens of the Stone Age.
We’d love it if you would send us all your live mini-reviews of the two day Oxegen music festival. Here are all the instructions for Jaiku users and for first-time mini-reviewers. Twitter instructions are coming in another post. To send reviews of Oxegen from your phone to us, you do not have to be signed up on LouderVoice. All you have to do is this: Sign Up here on the wonderful Finnish site Jaiku Join the #oxegen channel there Register your mobile number with them Start sending your reviews by SMS to +46 737 494 0501 in the following format: #oxegen 5 Queens of the Stone Age.
We announced LouderTweets recently, which are 140 character mini-reviews you can send to LouderVoice from Twitter without needing a LouderVoice account. Last night we turned on LouderViesti which is the equivalent feature for the superb Jaiku. Jaiku is like Twitter but can do much much more. They are based in Finland and are adding great features at a fast rate. We are now calling LouderTweets+LouderViesti = LouderMinis! Using LouderViesti is even easier than LouderTweets.
We’re had some feedback from non-Twitter users that they’d like to try out LouderTweets but the original instructions were a bit obscure. Here is the step by step. You don’t need to have a LouderVoice account Sign Up for a Twitter account here. All you need to provide is name, username and email address You don’t need to invite anyone else in so skip that step Go over the the “review” user’s page here Click the “add” button to add them as a friend You’ll get an email shortly afterwards saying that “review” has added you as a friend too Go to your main twitter page and enter a review in the box as follows: @review 5 Barry’s Tea.
After a few late nights we’re now ready to let you send reviews from Twitter to LouderVoice. We’re calling them LouderTweets and they are 140 character mini-reviews you can send using Web, SMS or IM via Twitter to LouderVoice. An important point is that you don’t have to be a LouderVoice member to send LouderTweets but you should join if you want to rate, bookmark or build/share useful collections of reviews.
We’ve just uploaded the first public release of our Firefox Add-on. This gives you a pop-up review writing window for Firefox so you can review anything when and where you like without having to go to our site. To make things as easy as possible, we pre-fill the URL and item name fields with those from the page you are currently browsing. If you select some text on that page first, then we’ll pre-fill the summary with that text too.
Tom Raftery recently interviewed Conor the CEO for the first ever episode of his video podcasts. If you want to find out about every aspect of LouderVoice from inception to why we use comma separated tags, then have a look. Thanks Tom!
Rather than having to go to LouderVoice to write a review and entering a bunch of information from scratch by hand, we now have a simple button for your browser (both Internet Explorer and Firefox) which makes the process even easier. If you are browsing any web page that has information about an item you’d like to review, just click the button. We’ll give you a review writing screen with the item name and URL pre-populated.
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