Springdoo: Voice + Video Emails and Video Shoutbox November 22, 2006
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Springdoo might sound like what you step in in the park after the snows have melted but it’s actually a pretty neat text, voice and video email service - with a few features to separate it from other similar offerings. You can choose to include whatever combination of content you like, and the interface is similar to standard webmail clients. The demo reel is damn funny but the freebie account is actually pretty swet: 10 min audio, 3 min video, 5Mb file upload, unlimited SpringMails, 100 Mb storage space. Anyone replying to your recording is allowed 30 seconds. There’s also something called SpringCasts, which are unlimited.
For a pro account, you get 10 min video, 20 Mb file upload, and 1Gb storage. Everything else is the same. Right now, they have a free 2 month upgrade to the pro account, after which you’ll have to pony up.
The Springdoo tool box has a number of interesting extras. The SpringCast feature lets you post audio and video from your mobile phone to your SpringCast Communicator profile page. PalCasts limit communication between you and your friends. SpringMail buttons are similar to SkypeMe or “Send Me An Odeo” type of buttons. Plant them on your website and link them to your Communicator page, and you have click-to-call voice and messaging (but not actual calls).
Though I can’t see myself using Springdoo a great deal, except maybe to send my grandmother a message once in a while, if you plan to use it regularly, they’ve made it easy to import your contacts from several other email clients, including Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, GMail, AOL, and others.
The SpringCast Communicator is an audio/video panel that’ll probably be of great interest to members of MySpace and other community sites. You can embed it into your web pages, and keep people updated on your goings on. People can respond with audio and video comments. It might be a great way for a band to keep fans updated, and interact with them.
Note: I would have posted an example of the video shoutbox here, but I had some trouble with the HTML not rendering properly. If I get it working later, I’ll update this post.
- Posted in : Communicating, Audio, Podcasting, Shoutboxes, Video shoutboxes, Video comments, embedded video
- Author :rdash
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Hi, Jason from Springdoo, ther SpringCast communicator has a few final bugs we are ironing out, should be done soon.
The know issues are 1) the initial display of the commnuicator renders the most current post’s image the wrong size, but if you refresh your browser it fixes that; 2) WMV 3 uplaods sometimes do not convert correctly and can stop any post playing on your communicator, 3) deliver of the streaming media can be a little slow to start, and this will be resolved once we move the service to the production servers.
Any other thoughts, fire them to us - cheers - J
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