Snapvine Blog

New ways to share and publish

Today we released some improvements to the website include an improved voice blog creation page that's easier to use and a new way to share your posts.

Now, voice blog item pages have a mini-player that includes the ability to pause and skip fwd and reverse
within a post.  This will make things much easier to use.

Also, the new mini-player itself can now be shared around the web.  You'll be able to post these on myspace pages, send in myspace bulletins and post them to your text blog.  This is our first small step towards allowing you to take your snapvine to where your friends are.

Here's an example of the mini-player:

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Comedy Central Comedian Mike Birbiglia Snapvining

Mike Birbiglia is on tour and using Snapvine from the road to stay in touch with his fans.

In December of 2002, Mike made his debut on The Late Show as one of the youngest comedians to perform on the show.  In 2004, Mike premiered his first Comedy Central Presents half-hour stand-up special which was such a hit that Comedy Central asked Mike to do another special within two years.

On February 7, 2006, Mike released a CD/DVD compilation, Two Drink Mike`, on the Comedy Central Records label, placing Mike on the Comedy Billboard chart.  He is also taping a new special for Comedy Central.

Check out his Snapvine Voice Blog.

Snapvine Users Collaborate To Pay Tribute To Fallen Soliders In Iraq

Australian Country music star Keri McInerney, shared on her Snapvine voice blog,  the touching story of how fellow Snapvine user BLUEEYES requested and is now using Kerri's music on a myspace page dedicated to soldiers who have lost their lives in the Iraq War.

Check out Kerry's voice blog

50 Cent Contest -- now live!

We've teamed up with 50 Cent to launch the 50 Cent Rap Star Contest.  Listen below and check it out.  There are TONS of ways to win great prizes every week!

Check out the contest

Lots of new features today

We've been working hard all summer on a ton of great new features, and many of these went live today!

Voice Blogs - actually much more than a blog, its a way you can keep in touch with 10 friends or 10,000 by simply dialing the phone number when something you want to say pops into your head.  We've made replying easy.   Today this is in limited release on our website, but that's just the beginning...

Voice Comments - now you can send a voice comment to anyone you want.  Just click "voice comments" record your voice and enter the email addresses (or lists) you want to send to.  It's easy and fun!

Subscribers / Subscribing - find interesting people and subscribe to them or tell your friends to do the same.  When you subscribe to someone, you get notified when they do stuff with Snapvine (such as post to their voice blog).  Oh yeah, you can also get notified via SMS.

Sound Quality - you might have noticed that things sound a lot clearer now than they did a week ago.  We upped the sound quality across the board by 2 times.  Also, entries can now be up to 10 minutes long - very useful for those times when you have a lot on your mind and need to say it all out loud.

Ad Serving - we hope you understand to keep Snapvine as a FREE service, but that generally means we have to do some advertising, so we've instrumented the new pages for serving ads.  We're not eager to do any smack-the-monkey type advertising though.  Look forward to advertisers and sponsorships that actually make Snapvine a better place to be.  Trust me, you'll see.

Record-by-microphone - wow, I almost forgot about this one!  You can now record by microphone instead of posting by phone for those times you using Snapvine at your computer.

There'll be lots of new stuff this fall too.  please let us know what you think!

Snapvine & Flickr

I just noticed some people have taken pictures of themselves on phones and put links to their Snapvine pages because they want to be able to hear from each other with the Flickr community.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=snapvine&s=rec

One of them writes, "I think it'd be neat to put voices to faces".

We think so too!

Korn on Snapvine

Check it out...Korn made a video to advertise their Snapvine account

WidgetCon in NYC

Curtis and I just wrapped up a week of meetings in NYC.  One of the things we did was present at WidgetCon, a conference for people who make widgets like us, publisher sites who let users put widgets on their pages like Freewebs, and ad agencies who work on cutting edge digital campaigns like Deep Focus (check out the site they made for The Simpsons Movie).

Overall it was a great week, although it was 100 degrees the whole time.  Also, we arrived just a couple days too late to join in the festivities at Washington Square on 7.7.7 with Brookers and TheHill88...well, there's always 8.8.8 !

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