Archive for February, 2010

World’s First Camera Phone

Friday, February 19th, 2010 | located in Things That Make Us Laugh | No Comments »

Found this little nugget from Chris Madden.

Take Back Your ‘Voicemail’ Messages

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 | located in Features | No Comments »

Has this happened to you? Someone left you an awesome voicemail message – funny, sweet, or otherwise memorable – and you saved it so that you could listen to it again later. Then life got busy, and when you finally dialed back into your voicemail box to listen to the message, it was gone.

It’s happened to all of us at one time or another, and it’s just one of the reasons we’re through with carrier voicemail. Not only are we fed up with having our messages automatically deleted after 21 days, we’re also tired of dialing into a remote voicemail box to listen to our messages and not being able to share them or access them easily.

That’s why one of our favorite Ribbit Mobile features is the online message inbox – a single place where you can read or listen to your messages in whatever order you want. You can sort your messages by sender; you can even search for words or phrases if you want to find one particular voicemail. And best of all: you can save your messages as long as you want to.

So next time your best friend calls and sings Happy Birthday on your voicemail, or your colleague leaves client information that you’ll need for future reference… you can be confident that those messages will be there for you, as long as you need them.

Isn’t that the way it SHOULD be? They’re your messages, after all…

If you could get back one voicemail that was lost… what would it be?

Lifetime voicemail archive and voice to text from Ribbit Mobile are a contractor’s dream.

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 | located in Success Stories | No Comments »

Remodeling can be a tough business. Just ask Jeff Weintraub – he’s been a contractor specializing in remodeling for over a decade, and he’s seen it all. A client might have one idea when they first sit down with Jeff, but they might later decide they want something different. Yellow tile instead of white. Bleached pine instead of cherry wood. It’s all part of the process.

Since Jeff is often on noisy job sites throughout the day, he can’t often take phone calls, so his voicemail messages pile up. Many of them contain specific change instructions or requests – which directly affect what he’s going to do the next day. He always dreaded trying to catch up with messages at the end of the day, but now that Ribbit Mobile transcribes all of his messages for him, he can spend that time doing other things.

Even more valuable to Jeff is the fact that he can keep his client messages as long as he wants to. “It someone leaves me a change request, and later forget, or they ask me why I did something a certain way, I can refer back to their voicemail,” he explains. He can forward clients the relevant messages, or they can listen to them together. “Having the archive really helps clear up misunderstandings.”

Jeff saves the messages in his online message inbox, knowing that he can access them at any time, even months later, if questions should ever arise. It’s one less thing this busy contractor has to worry about.

Hear it in Jeff’s own words:

Start your engines: Sprint is now supported!

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 | located in Features | No Comments »

Great news!  Sprint customers can now sign up for Ribbit Mobile.  Sprint made this possible by dropping their per-minute call forwarding fees and allowing their customers to activate call forwarding on their mobile phones.

What does this mean?
Sprint customers can now enjoy all the benefits of Ribbit Mobile.  After a short set-up process that connects your phone to Ribbit, you’ll be ready to go! Your phone will still work the same way it always has; the only change is that when you don’t answer an incoming call, that call will be forwarded to Ribbit. Ribbit will then direct the call based on your preferences. For instance, you can choose to have incoming calls ring on other phones, such as your home or office phone. If you don’t answer and your caller leaves a message, Ribbit will convert the voicemail into text.

Ribbit will send you the transcribed version of your new voicemail via text message or email - so you can scan it quickly, wherever you are. You can also listen to the message if you choose. All your messages are available online for you to view or listen to whenever you want. No more messages disappearing after 21 days! A Ribbit account also includes features such as text messaging, browser based calling, and Caller ID 2.0 which connects with your Twitter, Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr communities.  You can log in to the account page from your computer at www.ribbit.com/mobile or on your smart phone at m.ribbit.com.

Next time you’re at the racetrack or in a meeting, you can stop worrying about missing calls - just read and reply to to your messages as they arrive without missing a beat.

Sign up today.

Carrier Support:  In the US, Ribbit also supports AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.

From the Doghouse: Why I Don’t Check Voicemail Anymore

Monday, February 1st, 2010 | located in General | 1 Comment »

Jennifer found this cartoon on the pains of voicemail, and I just had to share. Resonates so deeply with many of us (pre Ribbit Mobile of course).

Of course, I then spent the next 10 minutes going through some of their previous work and found other goodies.