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I love Twitterfone:

I was lucky enough to get a beta test invite to user Twitterfone, and so far it's been tweetingly wonderful.

If you're not near a keyboard or don't want to noodle around typing a tweet on your mobile, just leave a voice tweet, and Twitterfone will transcribe it (accurately in my case, even allowing for my sometimes impenetrable Yorkshire accent.) and then load it up to Twitter.

A pal of mine wasn't overly impressed saying he preferred to type his tweets, which is fair enough. (Though I have challenged him to a shootout, keyboard vs voice. I tried it myself yesterday, typing a tweet in 20 seconds speaking same tweet in 14 seconds.)

Although to be honest, the typed tweet appears instantly, the transcription of voice obviously lags a bit before it loads. But how often do you need real-time to a few seconds accuracy when you tweet?

(Awful pun alert:) Changing gear somewhat, consider too the millions of people in cars with hands-free phones, all of a sudden twittering becomes an option to them does it not?

(The M5 already tweets, tailbacks, accidents , breakdowns, but hands-free twitterers on the motorway turn services like this into, er, two-way 'traffic'.)

I can see it being used to provide running commentaries from sports event too, ala BBC Five Live, from a your local surf contest/mountain bike/school egg & spoon race for example.

I also suspect that spoken tweets might have a different 'energy' or feel than written ones.

So well done Twitterfone hope you get the recognition you deserve.

Incidentally, my only hitch was a login problem at 0700 yesterday. I contacted Twitterfone tech support, and got an almost immediate response and fix. Thank you Adrienne, great service.

(The problem incidentally was er, 'user error', not a Twitterfone problem, - I was doing something stupid at login. Nothing new there then.)

You can also link through to the Tweetfone audio page to hear the tweet too, should you so wish.

Yesterday I was trying it out in Centotre, I was just about to leave a voice tweet when the waitress, (Hello Sabrina!), came to take my order. As I dithered, ummed and ah'd, I decide to concentrate on my coffee order not the tweet, but clever clogs Twitterfone, managed to understand and transcribe and post my mumbling incompetence for posterity:

Oh dear Twitter. Not again:

Twitter has been a bit, er, erratic the last 24 hours.

Particularly last night while there was a bit of a humourfest here during the Eurovision Song Contest.

Poor.

This guy is good. But this good?

No.

(A longer more thoughtful post to come, but I'm dashing out now. While you wait though, please make yourself comfortable, and read the original FastCompany article here.)

Addictomatic:

This is pretty cool:

Addictomatic is an aggregator of a bunch of essential, live, Web 2.0 feeds.

An ego-searchers tool de jour.

(And I should know about ego-searches.)

Thanks to my pal Rob, at Rakino in NZ for the heads up.

Coffee Morn 020508:

Flickr set here:

This post will have to be dashed off I'm afraid, meeting in 30 mins, but just wanted to post about a couple of highlights this morn.

Jon, is working on a belting Social media project for the rsno.

It involves, Hip-Hop, (whatever that is), Elvis Costello, (I've heard of him), and Video Gaming music. (Ah, now I'm on more familiar territory, Gaming; like Tetris and Pong, and Trivial Pursuits in CD presumably. Who says you can't teach a old dog new tricks.)

Anyhow, more on this on later posts as it unfolds from Jon.

The other highlight of the morning, apart for Jamie's new Mac, was meeting Sarah and Chris from Edinburgh based PR agency, Hot Tin Roof.

To the best of my dodgy memory the first PR people who've been to a Coffee Morn.

Which says a lot of good things about them in my book, and of course reflects somewhat negatively on all other PR agencies who might beneirt for tapping into what Coffee Morn offers them. But can't be bothered come, or worse don't even know what's going on in Social Media in Edinburgh.

But let's not get me going on that one eh?

I'm sure I'll be writing more about HTR soon.

(Let's hope I don't get all dyslexic though and start writing about HRT instead.)