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GeoGraffiti: local information to listen to

2 Oct. 2008 | Author: AWo | german

At the end of April 2008, the local speech platform GeoGraffiti launched a trial run. Apparently successful, the Beta-phase has just ended, as is reported by the operators in a press release.

GeoGraffiti is a local ratings platform for the USA, providing content exclusively provided by its users. Here one can find locally relevant information on restaurants, businesses or parks, or describe locations of any sort and rate them.

This doesn’t sound new. Contrary to other local recommendation services, the ratings at GeoGraffiti are not available in writing but exclusively as voice messages – so-called ‘VoiceMarks’. The telephone stands front and center of this new Web2.0 undertaking. This means that participants can call directly from en route via their cell-phone and simply leave their voice message. The results, according to GeoGraffiti, are linked via Zip Code or geographic coordinates (latitude/longitude) to the location in question. Similarly, cell phone users can listen to other VoiceMarks relevant to their current location.

Of course, this service is not only mobile based, but also on the web. Here one can request a location on a Google Map (‘Search Map’), as to where one wishes to deliver or receive information.  Existing VoiceMarks are displayed as blue Speaker icons on the mashup. They are clickable to listen to, and if registered, one can add a rating or record an answer.  If one wishes to leave an answering VoiceMark, the user enters his/her cell phone number and receives a callback.

The idea isn’t bad. However, purely acoustically, the quality of the messages leaves something to be desired – many are barely understandable.  This certainly can be the result of the phone connection, but also on the speech quality and delivery of the user.  The content is still rather thin on the ground, with relatively few VoiceMarks.  This may change with time, dependent on the success of the service.

GeoGraffiti: local information to listen to
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