Yes. I work here. So yes, I’m expected to like our product, and I do, but I suppose I’d be expected to lie if I didn’t. Which in some ways is a bummer since I’m a wonderfully convincing liar. That? Oh, don’t worry about that. That’s just a rash. Scout’s honor.

So what makes GotVoice speech to text so special? There are a few things, but one of the coolest is that when messages are converted to text and sent to you as email, they come with a reply link. Simply click the “Reply to:” next to the caller’s number and GotVoice will let you type your response then send it as a text message. What’s even cooler is that if the phone you’re sending to doesn’t support text messaging, GotVoice will convert your text message to speech and ring the user’s phone. I swear I didn’t spend my childhood avoiding the sunlight and reading Science Fiction novels, no really, honest, I didn’t, but this sounds like science fiction! In the 2.5 release it wouldn’t surprise me if the message then cleaned your room and made your bed and kept the space station running until it turned evil and refused to open the pod doors for Dave…

Plus Voicemail-to-Text also has a filter feature that lets you decide whose messages to receive as text. You simply make a list of numbers using your contact list or, if someone leaves a particularly annoying message, you click the link in the email to filter him(or her) out. This filter feature is truly awesome. Filter feature. Hahaha. That’s funny to say. Like a tongue twister. Filter feature. Filter feature. Hahahahaha…haha….ha…ha…ha…cough…cough….crickets chirp….and people stop reading.

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My buddy just bought an iPhone. It cost $500 - which is a lot. It’s like buying two Nintendo Wiis only it doesn’t come with Zelda or Mario Brothers or even a wireless controller. Seems pretty expensive to me. I didn’t pay much more than that for my home computer and it does everything but cook me breakfast.

So why get an iPhone? I honestly don’t know. From what I understand, it’s the many cool features. One of the most important being Visual Voicemail - a service which takes your phone’s voicemail and displays it on your phone in an organized clickable list - just like email. Incidentally GotVoice gives you that same feature - for free.

With GotVoice Visual Voicemail you can organize, archive, and quickly listen to the message you want. Plus, Visual Voicemail lets you can store your messages forever. No 14 day automatic deletion. No having to press #9 23 times in a row to find the right message. No paying off your iPhone for so long that by the time it’s free and clear, a better phone is on the market. Simply log on at www.GotVoice.com and click the “Visual Voicemail” link. When you finally buy that rare 2nd edition collector’s “Aquaman” Action Figurine to admire in it’s plastic holder, you’ll be happy you saved your $500.

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Use a ringtone for your phone? Ever wanted to? Well, we can’t help you there, but we can help you mix music with your voice and upload the result as your voicemail greeting. What would you expect to pay for a service this great? $500, $1,000, maybe $1,500. Well, maybe if it were an iPhone. But we’re offering this special, limited time offer for just 5 easy payment of $0.00! Yes, for just 5 x $0.00, you too can take advantage of this limited time special offer!!!

Impress your friends! Amaze your neighbors! Confuse your dog! With GotVoice Greetings you can do all that and more.

If you’ve ever wanted to tell people to leave you a message right at the peak of that ripping Van Halen intro for “Why Can’t This be Love,” Well now’s your chance! Try it now for Free! You’re Guaranteed to love it or your money back! Why wait? What have you got to lose?!? Just 5 easy payments of only 0 dollars and 0 cents! If you don’t love it, I’ll personally give you 10 times your money back! That’s 10x 0 dollars!!! You’d be losing money not to!

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On the list of things I despise, slowly, painfully, and inarticulately typing out a text message with the keys on my phone’s keypad near the top of the list - somewhere between slowly licking a cotton ball and watching Whoopi Goldberg host the Academy Awards. It takes forever, it’s horribly awkward, and more to the point, when I try to speed up the process using T9, it creates a slew of terrible errors - things like “no”, instead of “on,” “i” instead of “I,” and my personal pet peeve, “Hangatruers” every time I try to write “Gangbusters.”

Not only that, but it’s next to impossible to text from work. As your boss walks up to ask what you are furiously typing on your phone? “Oh, nothing. Just working…On plans for tonight!”

But not any more. No longer will I have to limit my daytime distractions to daydreaming alone, because GotVoice just released a new widget. It lets me send a text message to any US phone all from the desktop. Here’s what it looks like:

This is total genius. No new browser window. No login required. Quick, easy, grammatically accurate text messages.

If you want to sign up, it’s free. Just cut and paste the link below or click the widget on the gotvoice homepage.

http://www.gotvoice.com/visual-voicemail-widget.php

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For the past year I’ve played armchair athletics in a league in Seattle. The games rotate by season, starting with the traditional “kickball” in the summer (which is actually nowhere near as fun as your remember it from first grade), moving through drinks on the links, flag football, and finally dodgeball (which I would highly recommend).

Every week there’s a last minute drama, but since it’s last minute, the email doesn’t get seen by 2/3 of the team, or the text message - if there is one - is too short and I have to call Eliza, our team captain, and ask her what she was trying to say.

Mobile Compose solves that problem. It lets you send a text message to a group. Only it’s not a text message, it’s a voicemail. And you don’t type it, you say it. And you can set up groups ahead of time so you don’t have to scroll through your address book and click each name as your GTI Rabbit veers into the other lane and the BMW in the lane next to you who honks and you shout some obscenity in response which clearly he can’t hear because you’re both driving and your windows are up but you still shout it because he must be in the wrong despite your swerving.

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