Spring Forward Springdoo
September 24th, 2005 by Adam Cuothe
Found in Email, again with feeling by New Zealand IDG’s Chris Bell, this bit of info about Springdoo. Not only should the parent company be charged with grotesque severity of child abuse in naming the little one, Springdoo, but Springdoo will be dodging a lifelong dillemna of disappearing dough (I predict). It has drained millions to deliver voice e-mail to the world. It’s system does sound like its well-done. I get to record a voice message, have it delivered as an e-mail link to my recipient, who then gets to hear it at any time without having their mailboxes cluttered with MBs of sound. But what is this really useful for? The article suggests communicating emotion in quick messages… fair enough, but I don’t see that being a huge selling point. E-mail is convenient, it let’s me quickly scan messages and save them for later review. Voice mail is perhaps useful though often annoying with its total lack of easy (time efficient) scannability, and difficult navigation techniques. I can’t see why I’d like to receive a voice-based e-mail. It would annoy me. I can see it possibly being useful for someone to say, deliver a speech to a subscribed audience, or maybe a memo that somehow requires voice intonation. Maybe they should market it more in that direction than as another form of e-mail service.
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