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Friday Jan 18, 2008

Jott: Better than Twitter

Did you ever want to send an email to yourself but all you have is your phone?  Or want to send an email to a group? Or blog from your phone but you can't stand Twitter?


Here's Jott, and it's better. As if you are leaving a voicemail message, you can send an email to anyone you wish, as long as you've added them to your Contacts.  30 seconds...go.


I so wanted to do an example on this blog, but unfortunately, Roller is one of the few that is not available for sending a Jott message to a link.  (Yet another thing to dislike about Roller.


Jott will send the message in text as well as audio form.


When you first sign up, Jott has you send a message to yourself to test it out.  Here's what I got via email:










Jott.com
Transcription Confidence: FAIR


"This is a test, I wanna see how well Jott works."

Listen to audio

Posted at 02:59PM Jan 18, 2008 Comments[4]

Comments:

Heidi,
I'm happy someone else thinks this is as cool as I do (it's listed under Phone Tools on the Learning 2.1 page).

Posted by Mike on January 18, 2008 at 03:47 PM PST #

I'd heard about Jott before, but your blog post made me take another look. Now they offer "Jott Links," perfect for mashups. So I made one: Phonepedia.

Posted by Casey Bisson on January 20, 2008 at 05:55 PM PST #

I'm a BIG Jott fan-- they are #8 on my cell phone speed-dial. The transcription is usually pretty good, although they struggle with library terms... my recent message re: Serials Solutions became "Cereal Solutions"-- that put a smile on my face!

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