Now in public beta, GeoGraffiti is a free “Verbal Bulletin Board” that allows you to record and share location-specific voice notes, or “Voice Marks”, whether you’re on the go or in front of your computer. Find a new coffee shop that you love? Call up GeoGraffiti, and leave a Voice Mark to let the world know. Want to warn people where the crack houses are? Voice Mark!
Once you’re registered, any Voice Marks from your mobile phone will be automatically associated with your account and added to the map, where others in the community can rate and respond.
Adding a new location through the site is quick and easy, but doing so over the phone is currently a bit of a chore. If you initiate the Voice Mark over the phone, its placement is only accurate to the zip code. After you record your Voice Mark, you’ll click your way through a series of menus to properly tag your recording - it’s easy to follow, but listening through the options takes a bit too long. It’d be nice to be able to store unpublished voice memos onto my account to be tagged and accurately positioned later.
It’s a rad idea, and could end up being a mega useful on-the-go resource as the userbase grows. Check out the video demo, or just skip it and go right to GeoGraffiti.
[Repost Comment from Techcrunch]
Love it! But apologies for a somewhat self-serving comment, but we’ve been out with w voice map API that will let developers create any type of voice/map integration they’d care to imagine. Mo K. at blabberize put this one together.
http://www2.myvox.com/users/ga…..sp?chID=19
The exciting thing to see here is that developers are thinking about creating new and novel voice apps. For any developers tinkering in the space, we have an api for you that manages all the telco complexity. We process the call as you want us to, and pass you the voice file mashup how ever you desire. Completely free.
More info at:
http://www2.myvox.com/developers/default.asp
- Scott
Comment by J. Scott Hamilton — May 9, 2008 @ 1:06 pm
first link got messed up….here it is:
http://www2.myvox.com/developers/gallery_detail.asp?chID=19
Comment by J. Scott Hamilton — May 9, 2008 @ 1:49 pm
Thanks for mentioning GeoGraffiti Greg! I wanted to let your readers know we are currently working on a feature to store Voice Marks created via cell phone so that they can be tagged and geo-positioned using our map mashup at a later time. More elegant solutions for auto-location determination will also become available later this year when GeoGraffiti plugs into the GPS features of the iPhone and Andriod platforms. This will enable a more user friendly experience via our telephone UI in that the caller won’t have to stipulate zip codes or adjust the position at all.
Thanks again, and we look forward to evolving GeoGraffiti to meet our early adopters’ requests and needs.
Comment by Chad - GeoGraffiti Founder — May 9, 2008 @ 2:18 pm