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Ribbit Numbers, Importing Contacts, and Cast Your Vote for Ribbit!

Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | located in Contest, Features | No Comments »

Ribbit Numbers are now available
Are you planning a special event, setting up an online profile, or doing business in more than one location? Get a free Ribbit Number! Here’s how:

• Sign in to your account.
• Click Settings > Phones & Numbers > Add Phones & Numbers > Ribbit Number.
• Choose your number, and you’re set.

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Want to import your contacts?
Ribbit supports quick contacts import with Plaxo. Just sign up for a free Plaxo account and import your Google, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, LinkedIn, Mac or Outlook contacts. Then sign in to Ribbit Mobile and import your Plaxo contacts. It’s that easy! Learn more about importing from Plaxo.

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Cast Your Vote for Ribbit!
Ribbit has been nominated as one of the top 100 web products for 2009 in Read Write Web’s annual contest. The contest is almost over, and we would LOVE your help in casting a vote to get us in the Top 10 companies announced at the end of this week. Vote for Ribbit now.

And if you get a wild hair in you…and you have a Twitter account…how about tweeting your vote! For instance: I just voted for @Ribbit in @rww’s Favorite Web Product of 2009 contest! You can too: http://su.pr/9oK6a1

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Need Help?
Please visit us online at www.ribbit.com/mobile/support or contact us via email at support@ribbit.com or 1-800-474-2248 (US).

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Thanks so much for your enthusiasm and encouragement over the past few weeks! We appreciate your patience while we’re in beta, and we’re excited about what the upcoming year will bring.

Nominate Ribbit Mobile for a Crunchies award!

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | located in Contest | 1 Comment »

Been using Ribbit Mobile to manage your calls and feeling the all the goodness the service has to offer?

Saving minutes (or more) a day by NOT having to dial into your voicemail? Loving the find me, follow me feature? Saving money by using the Flash phone on the desktop instead of your mobile phone?

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Well then. Tell the world how much you love Ribbit.

We have thrown our hat in the proverbial Crunchies Award ring, and would love your show of support by nominating Ribbit in the Best Mobile Application category. On the Crunchies site, make sure ‘Ribbit’ is listed in the field and then click ‘nominate’. Easy breezy and would mean so much to us.

Who knows, if we win this thing, we just might go crazy and extend the ‘free’ part of the service.

Hop Across The Pond Winner Announcement!

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 | located in Contest | No Comments »

The exclusive BT Ribbit Mobile trial continues to be a resounding success – to date, over 11,000 BT employees have used Ribbit Mobile to manage their phones, calls, and messages. Since the start of the trial, Ribbit Mobile transcribed over 500,000 messages just for those of you in BT!

And now for the most exciting news of all: the Hop Across the Pond Contest concluded at the end of September, and one BT employee won a trip to California!

A big congratulations to: Lucie Pepper, Implementation Manager, Digital Care for BT Retail based out of New Castle!

We look forward to having Lucie join us at the Ribbit offices in California in the coming months. Stay tuned to the blog for updates on Lucie’s visit to Silicon Valley.

Thank you so much for your participation in this trial. Your feedback helped us to improve Ribbit Mobile, and we are grateful for your involvement. Read more about what your fellow BT employees are saying about their Ribbit Mobile experiences. We’ll be in touch again soon.

Hey BT: Hop Across The Pond Employee Contest Extended!

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 | located in Contest | 1 Comment »

The exclusive Ribbit Mobile trial for BT employees has been a smashing success, and we’re happy to announce that we’ve extended the trial for one more month. We’re opening up additional invitations for a final membership round, and are also extending the entry deadline for the Hop Across the Pond Contest.

When the trial comes to a close at the end of September, we will select a lucky winner for an expenses-paid trip to California!

Thank you for all of the exciting messages on the Contest Call Wall - many of you have shared some great feedback with us, and we have read every single one of your messages. We feel more closely connected to your Ribbit Mobile experiences than you realize!

Read more about what Ribbit Mobile users are saying about their experiences here: http://thecallwall.com/bt/

Thank you for helping us to make Ribbit Mobile better prior to our formal public launch. We’ll be back in touch soon.

Hop Across The Pond Contest: Day One Itinerary

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 | located in Contest | No Comments »

How does this sound to you?

Your bags are packed. They are loaded onto a plane. That plane carries you over the Atlantic Ocean. You arrive San Francisco. You check into a nice hotel. You have dinner and a relaxing nights sleep. You wake up, brush your teeth, put your shoes on and head into the Ribbit Headquarters, ready to start the first day of your California tour.

• Upon arrival we give you a little coffee and some tasty eats as we show you around the office, introduce you to the team, and then give you an overview of what we have been doing to change the world of telephony (in a good way of course!).
• Once you have learned everything you ever wanted to know about Ribbit, we jump in the car and head over to the Computer History Museum (’CHM’) in Mountain View, which is the world’s largest history museum for the preservation and presentation of artifacts and stories of the information age. The CHM explores the computing revolution and its impact on our lives. Whether you are the type to stand in line for an iPhone 3GS, or still type away on a Pentium II, all will enjoy this walk down Innovation Lane.
• Doing all that walking around can work up an appetite, so we’ll head over to the Apple Cafeteria and fill ourselves up with another round of tasty treats on the beautiful Apple campus in Cupertino.
• If you are interested in soaking in more tech goodness, we will take you over to the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose where you will experience an expansive variety of interactive exhibits and unique floor programs.  Of course, if you would prefer to take a nap, we can make sure that happens too.
• After you take some time to freshen up, you will be our guest of honor at an exclusive cocktail party and dinner party with Ribbit folks and other luminaries from Silicon Valley. Hey, anyone have Steve Jobs’ phone number? Ha.
• Then we drop you off safely at your hotel. You choose whether or not you sleep. You get ready to roll into day number two…

If you can see yourself as the ‘you’ in this scenario, make sure you have activated your Ribbit account and use the service for at least one week. You are automatically entered to win. Want to better your chances to win? Leave us a message. 

Double Your Chances To Win a Trip Across The Pond

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 | located in Contest, Visit Ribbit | 1 Comment »

Last week we launched the Hop Across the Pond contest for all BT employees who sign up for a Ribbit for Mobile account. Ok, you can’t just sign up - we want you to link your phone and use the service for seven (7) days as well to be eligible. I know - details, details.

Did you know there a way to double your chances of winning?

That’s right folks. We really want to give this trip away, so we are offering another way for you to win it.

Call us. Dial 01256 369078 (UK) or (559) 272-7703 (US) and record your message!

Ben Paddock did, and by doing so he has doubled his chances of winning. Sweet.

Now, if you would be happy hearing the winner share their trip details with you over the BT water cooler, do nothing else. In fact, go ahead and close this window. However, if you would rather it be you, not someone else, getting a photo taken in front of the Golden Gate Bridge or drinking a nice glass of cabernet in Napa - pick up that phone. Say hello. Or, tell us why you want the trip and where you would go on your free days.

Get creative. We are listening*.

*Just know anything you say will go on the wall, so keep it clean. My mom is watching. 

Hey BT Employees: Win a Trip to Sunny California!

Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | located in Contest | 4 Comments »

The exclusive Ribbit for Mobile trial for BT employees is now in full swing across the UK. Thousands of people have signed up to test the service, and we’re starting to hear great feedback from across the pond. We’re thrilled that so many BT employees have joined us in this effort!

Now we’re adding yet another incentive to participate in the trial – the chance to win a trip to California!
All BT employees who participate in the Ribbit for Mobile trial will be entered into a drawing to win a trip for two to California. If you win, we’ll put you on a plane and fly you out to see us and take you on the Silicon Valley Dream Tour. Then you’ll get two days to spend on your own; choose 2 nights in San Francisco or the Napa Valley. Oh, and you can double your chances to win by leaving a voice message on our contest call wall.

Good luck! Hey, you have a far better chance of winning this contest than you do with that lottery ticket you just bought…

We can’t wait to meet the winner! Get all the contest details here.