We’ve had a fantastic year in LouderVoice and it looks like 2009 is going to be even better with a raft of new releases in the next few months. Looking back over last year we achieved the following:

• In January we launched Flag Tag reviewing which enabled any blogger to have their blog reviews collected by LouderVoice with two simple tags on a post.
• We also added Twitter/SMS/Jaiku hashtag support
• In February we sponsored the Best Blog Post in the Irish Blog Awards
• In March we did our first major revamp with LouderVoice V2 adding on-site reviews and a ton of other features.
• We also launched V2 of our WordPress Plugin. (Updated Plugin for WP 2.7 coming very soon!)
• We spent from April to October busy fixing bugs and building our B2B offering
• In July we started using Get Satisfaction for Customer support. Don’t hesitate to add bug reports or feature requests there.
• In September we launched Simple SMS reviews requiring just a single keyword
• We were also Shortlisted in the Irish Web Awards
• In October we launched LouderVoice for Business to great attention
• We were also shortlisted in the Irish Software Association Awards
• And we kicked off our BES 2008 Offering for Irish Investors
• In November, our first B2B client, Klipsch, went live
• In December we successfully closed a BES investment round which will ensure our continued success through 2009

We should have posted this before Christmas but the final winner in the Three competition was Gabriel Kelly from Carrigaline in Cork for her review of the Philips DCP951/05.

 

   

 

One of the prize phones from Three and Custom-1 headphones from Klipsch are already on their way to her.

Well done to all the winners and thanks again to George Hook for making this all happen.

We’ll be kicking off some new competitions shortly. Keep an eye out here, on Twitter or on the site itself for details.

The third winner in the Three competition on The Right Hook has been announced on George’s radio show. It is SarahMc from Waterford who wrote a review of a very interesting device called the Scansound Unilateral Stereo Headphone. This sends both stereo channels into one earpiece for people who are deaf in one ear. Fantastic device and really informative review from Sarah!

 

   

 

One of the prize phones from Three and Custom-1 headphones from Klipsch will shortly be on their way to her.

Conor, the LouderVoice CEO, is attending his third Le Web conference in Paris this week. He’d love to meet with other start-ups, tech journalists and the European investment community. He’ll be on +353-87-9790297 from Monday evening to Thursday morning and a French Maxroam number (TBD) from Tuesday morning.

The second winner in the Three competition on The Right Hook has been announced on George’s radio show. It is Castle Tunes from Dublin who wrote a very detailed review of the Squeezebox Boom.

 

   

 

One of the prize phones from Three and Custom-1 headphones from Klipsch will shortly be on their way to Dublin.

There are another two weeks left in the competition. So get writing gadget reviews on the site or via SMS. The winner will be announced each Monday on the show which you can also listen to on the Newstalk web-site.

The first winner in the Three competition on The Right Hook has been announced on George’s radio show. It is Snowgirl from Thurles who wrote [The first winner in the Three competition on The Right Hook has been announced on George’s radio show. It is Snowgirl from Thurles who wrote]2 of the Sony Ericsson C905 phone. Our favourite line in the review was: “a camera that can call people”.

 

   

 

  

Three Ireland Reviewing Competition

Three Ireland in conjunction with Newstalk Radio, Klipsch and LouderVoice have just launched a reviewing competition for listeners in Ireland of George Hook on the Right Hook Radio Show.

Each week for the next four weeks, the best reviewer can win a Three Ireland handset plus Klipsch Custom-1 headphones. You can send reviews by SMS or write them directly here on the site

The Prizes

Click on the thumbnails for full information on each prize.

If you like what we are doing on LouderVoice, why not vote for us in the Mashable Open Web Awards? You can do it below.

Don’t forget to vote for all your favourite Irish WebApps, many of which can be found over at Web2Ireland.org.

We are incredibly happy to announce that Klipsch has just launched its UK specific site. Not only are they selling amazing audio equipment but the reviews there are powered by LouderVoice.

When you are investing £1000 in a sub-woofer, you want to be sure you are picking the right one. Reviews by other customers can help you make that decision. The Klipsch guys understand that those reviews are a win-win for everyone.

Some nice mentions of LouderVoice yesterday:

Irish Times article by John Collins

BES article by Caroline Madden

Silicon Republic article by John Kennedy

Web2Ireland article by Fergus Burns