Atari releases source code for 7800 games
Atari releases source
code for 7800 games 		Gamers: Time to score big – specials galore on Steam
Gamers: Time to score
big – specials... 		Fire at authorize.net grinds e-commerce to a halt
Fire at authorize.net
grinds e-commerce to... 		Some really cool laptops, too bad they're just concepts
Some really cool
laptops, too bad... 		BREAKING: Shots fired at Apple store in Virgina – one wounded [VIDEO]
BREAKING: Shots fired
at Apple store in... 		Lori Drew case dismissed, and why it's a good thing
Lori Drew case
dismissed, and why...
Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: June 25, 2008
Tags : , ,
Subscribe: Tech Feed, Email, Twitter

Utterz: Twitter Meets Seesmic


    StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Mixx del.icio.us MySpace Fark Facebook TwitThis Propeller Wikio Yahoo! Buzz

Utterz, best known as an audio messaging platform has been thrust back on the microblogging radar today with news that the site now supports Twitter like direct messaging features.

Kristen Nicole at Mashable headlines the changes as “New Utterz Features to take on Twitter?” and notes new features such as “Utterz messages directly to friends using the “@” symbol, personal URLs, and peer-to-peer SMS notifications.”

Until today I’ve never used the service, so I signed up and gave it a shot. My first impressions, plus a quick walk through in the video above. It’s an interesting platform in that Utterz mashes concepts we are familiar with on services such as Twitter and Seesmic and marries them on the one site. As a convenient, multi-media capturing service it’s good value. As a direct competitor to Twitter…I’m not so sure. The site still lacks a huge community, the magical ingredient that makes or breaks any service in the microblogging space. There are plenty of cross-overs with and into Twitter and other platforms however, and as a stand alone value add its a stronger proposition.

An audio embed below, with a correction to the screencast (I wasn’t sure about length when I recorded it), max recording time in 10 minutes.



You might also like



  • This is big news. I hadn't found Utterz especially useful. You sort of have to have a big ego to think that people want to hear your audio blog posts, because they're not quite podcasts. But this latest update will make the service much more useful -- and much more inline with social media and sharing.
  • Jim
    I think the 10 minute limit is new, but I'm certainly not going to listen to anyone blabber on by themselves for 10 minutes

    The direct comparison to Twitter is surprising too. I use utterz all the time but I hadn't thought of it as a possible twitter killer until I read Mashable's article. And even then, I wasn't too sure. It feels like it's in a different place in conversation space than twitter.

    The community is not large on utterz, although I find it much more interesting than sites like twitter or brightkite or even facebook. This is not in spite of but because of the fact that you often get to actually hear another human voice and not just the one(s) in your head.

    Plus there are lots of organizations out there that are putting utterz to some very creative use, The red cross for example. (http://www.utterz.com/AmericanRedCross).
blog comments powered by Disqus
King.com (Midasplayer.com Ltd.)