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How to accept voicemail on your blog?
1 point by h34t on Sept 4, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Does anyone know of a simple way to let people leave voicemail for you online from your website/blog (using their computer microphone)?

Looks like GrandCentral will do this when it fully launches (http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/01/grandcentral-receive-calls-and-post.html), and Odeo used to do this but the link is now broken (http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/03/let-site-visitors-leave-voicemail-for.html).

Evoca (http://www.evoca.com/) does this, but its offering seems too complicated and it always scares me when a service so simple doesn't publish its prices publicly.

GetABuz.com is down right now -- I don't know if it's permanent or just a tech snafu.

SnapVine.com is being acquired by WhitePages and makes you use an ugly, SnapVine-branded widget.




Update...

Evoca 'web voicemail':

$30/year for individuals/businesses/bloggers who are OK with Evoca branding on everything and are limited to 180 minutes of recording storage.

I don't know if there's a business here (though Snapvine raised $10 million for this) but I wish there was a simple solution that just worked.

I'd like people to have the option of sending voicemail to me instead of email, because some people much prefer voice to text (but I may not want my ph# public).




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