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The answering machine is history… almost!

April 29th, 2009

Google is finding it’s way into the very fabric of our being! Google Voice is slated to hit prime time shortly. No more excuses… The answering machine is always on!

Gmail pioneered the unique approach of targeted ad campaigns by trolling through our in-boxes. Will GoogleVoice adopt a similar approach by parsing our sound bytes to figure out what we may want to buy?Although, I must say, listening to ads while retriving my voice-mail doesn’t seem very palatable :)

But of all the features the GoogleVoice offers, the one that floats to the top on my list is Personalized Greetings. With the ease of changing greetings via the web, having one voice greeting for the wife another for the boss is… sweet!

Now, if only they would add a Text-to-speech (TTS) feature to the voice-mail, the possibilities are endless: eMail to vMail and back, on the touch of a button!

Technically, parsing voice data seems like a daunting task. But… if any company is poised well to take on that project and scale it well, I’d bet my money on Google Inc.

answeringmcrip

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Interesting surroundings

April 28th, 2009

We know that more 80% of home buyers initially use the internet to begin their home search. With ubiquitous mapping solutions, there are tons of sites that will tell you what is around the property that is being considered for purchase. However, the personalizing of those surroundings is aroundpoint’s value propostion.

For instance:

Where does the school bus stop? Can I see it from my kitchen window? That can be an important fact to know if I end up driving my child to the bus-stop two houses down on snowy days.

I love dancing… is there a dance studio in the neighborhood of the property? If so, what’s it like? How much does it cost?

And baby-sitting! Are there enough baby-sitters in the area for my toddler when I want that much needed breather?

And tons more… Here’s a sample!

Thoughts anyone?

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So you never forget a face?

April 21st, 2009

I thought I never forget a face…. and I was right!

facerecognition

I just took this test and got a 100% in the strongest category!

So… don’t cross me, I know where to find you!!

There are some, I know who don’t remember the face but the telephone number instead!! Who’s that guy… um.. 717 346 9 something!!!

Can you get a 100%? Give it a shot.. takes about 10 minutes.

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Lockbox key on the iPhone

April 18th, 2009

Whatever happened to the hype about getting us to use our iPhones to unlock the supra lockboxes ?

The Supra Lockboxes use InfraRed waves for communicating with the “key” device. I would think that with the blue tooth standard, it would be easy for iPhones/iTouches to have the software to unlock the lockboxes. And you really don’t have to have a wi-fi connection to the internet when we are at the listing. Update the “keys” at home using the home wi-fi and then use bluetooth to unlock at the listing!

Why isn’t this already available?

Shalini

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You can be anything you want!

April 16th, 2009

Hello friends!

I found this extremely funny!

Obama's dog wanna-be

Obama's dog wanna-be

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Let AroundPoint find the points of interest!

April 15th, 2009

Hello AroundPoint Users!

Our service is now more than a year old and on Mar 15th we celebrated our first anniversary!
Thanks for the wonderful feedback we have been receiving.

Way back in Dec 2008, our users asked us if we could have AroundPoint find Points of interest near their property (as against, having to enter points themselves).

We listened and went back to the drawing board. We are happy to announce that the new version of AroundPoint will find points of interest within a specified radius around your property!

When shown on the map, you can ether ‘Select All‘, in which case they will all be added to your Circle of Interest, or select only some points to personalize.

Let us know your experience!

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