Jott Launches Jott Links: Web 2.0 By Phone
Seattle-based Jott, a mobile phone service that lets users record and send emails, text messages, and to-do lists via speech-to-text over their mobile phones, today launched a new suite of tools based around popular web 2.0 sites. The new "Jott Links" service lets users interact with websites and online services by voice over the phone.
At launch, Jott Links supports posting to Twitter, Jaiku, Yahoo! Groups, blogging on LiveJournal, Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, posting calendar items on 30Boxes, and getting housing "Zestimates" by voice from Zillow.
"The Jott Links feature demonstrates that there are many more applications of our speech-to-text service," said Jott CEO John Pollard in a press release, stressing that the company has been adding new features based on user feedback. "We continue to be committed to listening to our customers and incorporating their feedback into our service. Productivity, easier communication, and access to information on-line are three themes that our customers have continued to ask for."
Image taken from Jott.com
I tried out the Zillow service on my phone today. From an end user perspective, using the new Jott Links is a 3 step process after you've added the service to your account online. Step 1, call Jott (the service remembers your phone number so there is no login or verification process), step 2, say the name of the service (in this case "Zillow"), step 3, give your command (in this case the street address of a house). Jott then dispatched a text message to my phone with the Zillow estimate for that home, and sent me an email which included a recording of my voice.
Jott has also released an API for Jott Links that will allow developers to create their own tie-ins with the service.
The company also announced other new features today, including folders, which allows people to save speech-to-text notes into specific categories in their Jott account, and signatures, which allows outgoing Jott emails to be appended with a signature file that can include a picture. Finally, Jott announced a notification service, by which users can record events, specify a date and time and receive a reminder by SMS or email.
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Jott Links has to be the greatest idea for Jott by far! As this blog states...I can see that the Jott team has taken user input to create this neat addition. I can see this inspiring people to create their own links and ideas, and this can only make Jott grow even more. I knew these guys had something up their sleeve! I've always had faith in these guys! Keep it up Jott! You have a user for life.
Posted by: chris | September 4, 2007 10:07 PM
I have to say this is a brilliant idea and service with great potential. The opportunities for application are so vast that it seems pretty exciting to me.
I first read about this and immediately started thinking on how to integrate it with SugarStats.com for diabetes management. Stats input via voice in addition to web, sms, email and twitter... Awesome!
The API looks fairly interesting as well, we'll have to dig in.
Posted by: Marston A. | September 5, 2007 1:37 AM
Diabetes management eh? Wow...never thought of using Jott for health reasons. You should bring that up to the Jott team. Really.
Posted by: chris | September 5, 2007 10:04 PM
Any startup that has a hope in hell has to listen to its user base or fester and die. The jott service seems like a great extension of Web 2.0 into the real world, rather then simply existing on ones own computer.
Posted by: thehack | September 6, 2007 11:34 AM
thehack - that is very true! And I think Jott has done a very good job at listening to their users. I read an article about the CEO personally contacting a customer to help fix a problem. Now THAT is service. Jott all the way.
Posted by: chris | September 6, 2007 7:12 PM
Jott seems very useful and reasonably reliable. But when it gets the transcript wrong the results can be funny. So I've created http://misjott.com so people can let the world know about the misjotts that they've gotten.
Posted by: Bernard Farrell | September 10, 2007 4:40 PM
Bernard - haha Great site man! I've been misquoted a few times (can't remember what exactly, or i'd add to your site) and I tell ya, it's funny. I've ran across people who had some funny ones. More kudos to your site due to the fact the CEO likes your idea! I can see his point of view...it's going to help the company grow. You know what they say... live and learn from yer mistakes!
Posted by: Jimmy | September 12, 2007 6:49 PM
We recently developed a new web application that allows you to Jott something like "Have insurance meeting with Bobby tomorrow at 3pm" and have a new event for exactly that added to your Google Calendar. You can also call that number and say "Get events from 9/21/2007 through 9/25/2007" and it will email you (and text message you if you want) with a list of those events.
Check it out: http://www.grinn.net/blog/dev/2007/09/add-to-google-calendar-by-talking-into.html
Posted by: Denny | September 27, 2007 10:39 AM