TalkShoe Launches Facebook Application

March 11, 2008 at 5:43 am | Author: Scott | In Press Releases
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TalkShoe Launches Facebook Application Allowing Users to Talk Live With Up to 250 of Their Friends
Simple Integration with Facebook Profiles Allows Users to Host Community Calls Anytime

Pittsburgh, PA – March 11, 2008 — TalkShoe, the community call leader, today revealed a new Facebook application that offers instant community calling capabilities within anyone’s Facebook profile. The TalkShoe Facebook application brings voice into Facebook, providing users with an easy way to talk to their social network.

Visit http://apps.facebook.com/talkshoeapp/content/main.faces to download the application now.

There is no need to sign-up with TalkShoe, Facebook users simply download the application to integrate it into their profile and can immediately start inviting friends, inside and outside Facebook, to join them on a Community Call.

For TalkShoe hosts, integrating the application with their Facebook profiles provides a new place to host their planned community call episodes and provide updates on future episodes, while reaching a broader audience.

TalkShoe Users Meet-Up
To celebrate the Facebook application launch, TalkShoe’s CEO, Dave Nelsen will be hosting a
meet-up in San Francisco tonight for TalkShoe users from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Varnish Fine Art.
For last minute registration, sign up.

News Highlights:
FaceBook TalkShoe call hosts can:
• Talk live with up to 250 friends about any topic.
• Keep calls private or list them so other Facebook members can join in as well.
• Have full control to determine when recording starts and when participants are muted.
• Publish their call details on blogs, message boards or anywhere else on the web and even non-Facebook and non-Talkshoe members can join in with one click, even if they were not invited to the call.

Key TalkShoe Facebook Application features:
• Facebook users can conduct live community calls and join live calls with embedded text chat from within Facebook.
• When they are not dialed into the community call, friends can listen in and text as the call is streamed to their computer.
• All calls can be recorded and saved as podcasts or in a call series for anyone who missed a call to listen later.
• Anyone in the world can join a community call using any phone or VoIP service via the TalkShoe.com website.

All TalkShoe functionality is embedded within Facebook:
• No need to ever go to TalkShoe.com to sign up, schedule, create or even run the call. Everything can be done directly from within the Facebook profile.
• TalkShoe Facebook application users have access to all of the tens of thousands of live or previously recorded TalkShoe calls directly from Facebook on every topic imaginable.
• Users can follow any call so it is booked marked in their “My Calls” section.
• Like TalkShoe, the application is free of charge.

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Quotes

Attributed to Dave Nelsen, President and CEO, TalkShoe
“In the era of social communities where we rely on typed messaging to stay up to date on the lives and activities of members of our social networks, we have lost sight of the power of a voice conversation. By allowing Facebook users to integrate TalkShoe community calls into their profiles, we are empowering them to connect on a deeper level with their communities while preserving the convenience and simplicity of their social networking experience.”

Attributed to Justine Ezarik, blogger and TalkShoe Facebook application user
“As a new media enthusiast and avid Facebook user, I am always on the lookout for ways to engage my community on a deeper level. The TalkShoe Facebook application lets me add a whole new dimension to my social networks because I can easily and instantly invite both Facebook and non-Facebook users to join my community calls.”

About TalkShoe
TalkShoe community calling integrates the power of group voice into your online networks to establish a deeper connection. Community calling uses the phone, cell phone or VoIP to enable group conversations between anyone, anywhere, anytime, allowing people to host and record interactive community calls on any topic. TalkShoe community calling integrates seamlessly with your already established social networks including Facebook, Meebo, and Ning. To learn more about how TalkShoe uses the power of peoples’ voices to establish deeper and more meaningful relationships with your communities visit us at www.talkshoe.com or +1 724-935-TALK (8255).

For more information contact:
Carole Hutchinson
617-431-1024
ctrachimovsky@horngroup.com

NEWS: TalkShoe creates iPhone App

February 25, 2008 at 11:48 am | Author: Aaron | In Announcements, Press Releases, What's New
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TALKSHOE LAUNCHES IPHONE APPLICATION GIVING USERS INSTANT ABILITY TO TALK AND LISTEN INTO LIVE COMMUNITY CALLS

Discuss sports, politics, technology and more directly from your iPhone at iphone.talkshoe.com

Pittsburgh, PA – February 25, 2008 –TalkShoe, the community call leader, today unveiled an iPhone application that allows mobile users to participate on a call with just their iPhone. The iPhone web application was designed specifically for the iPhone and displays all live TalkShoe community calls, which allow people to join calls of interest with one click.

Visit iphone.talkshoe.com to join a community call now.

Community calls are being hosted constantly and bring together people to discuss topics such as sports, the latest in Mac innovations, pop culture, home winemaking, tips on financial matters, politics, religion, automotive trends and more. Now iPhone users can simply go to iphone.talkshoe.com, view the live and upcoming shows and join the call.

iPhone users do not need to register to participate in community calls, however registered TalkShoe users can now use their iPhone to conduct or manage their own community call episodes.

TalkShoe’s CEO, Dave Nelsen and Aaron Brauser, VP of product management along with special guests Victor Cajiao, host of the Typical Mac User and Adam Christianson, host of the Maccast Loop, will hold a community call tonight at 8 p.m. to showcase the new features. To participate, go to http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/1631

Cajiao and Christianson hosted the first iPhone-only beta community call on TalkShoe on Jan. 19 while driving back from the MacWorld show. This community call can be listened to here: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/17436

News Highlights:
• iPhone users can join live calls and view upcoming calls they may want to participate in
• The iPhone application provides a one click link to auto dial-in and participate in a call. Up to 250 people can join and talk all together at once
• Hosts can create public or unlisted community call episodes and manage them through their iPhone
• TalkShoe members can follow specific calls, which can then be viewed from their iPhone or be notified via email or SMS when they start
• Features were built using TalkShoe’s publicly available API’s at Carnegie Mellon University
• New features showcase the flexibility of TalkShoe’s web platform in working with open API’s
• Calls can be recorded for later listening or turned into a podcast
• The iPhone application makes it very easy to record a podcast right from your phone
• In addition to participating through iPhone, anyone can also participate via phone, mobile phone, Skype, or VoIP via the talkshoe.com website

MultiMedia:

Screenshot of new TalkShoe-iPhone

Quotes

Attributed to Dave Nelsen, President and CEO, TalkShoe
“The new features for iPhone offer an extension to the current capabilities offered by TalkShoe and make it easy for people to communicate and listen to community calls from anywhere. Now it is easy to view and participate in upcoming shows through your iPhone and have a party line with fellow iPhone, cell phone and Internet users on the topics you are passionate about.”

Attributed to Aaron Brauser, VP of Product Development, TalkShoe
“The TalkShoe iPhone application is TalkShoe’s first step for delivering the full mobile TalkShoe solution to iPhone users. We look forward to continuing iPhone development and are very excited about taking advantage of Apple’s iPhone SDK to fully integrate into all aspects of the iPhone.”

Attributed to Victor Cajiao, Producer/Host of Typical Mac User Community Call:
“Using my iPhone with the new TalkShoe Web client was already possible, but now with the TalkShoe iPhone application I’ll be able to easily start, manage and execute a community call wherever I am. Matched with the ability of the iPhone to initiate a call and then be allowed to browse the internet while you’re talking, the TalkShoe iPhone application will provide me with yet another way to engage my audience wherever I am. My show is about the Mac community and TalkShoe is helping me reach out to that community in new ways all the time. Keep it up TalkShoe.”

About TalkShoe
TalkShoe community calling integrates the power of group voice into your online networks to establish a deeper connection. Community calling uses the phone, cell phone or VoIP to enable group conversations between anyone, anywhere, anytime, allowing people to host and record interactive community calls on any topic. TalkShoe community calling integrates seamlessly with your already established social networks including Facebook, Meebo, and Ning. To learn more about how TalkShoe uses the power of peoples’ voices to establish deeper and more meaningful relationships with your communities visit us at www.talkshoe.com or +1 724-935-TALK (8255).

NEWS: The New TalkShoe - the Voice of Social Media

February 5, 2008 at 12:49 pm | Author: TalkShoe Team | In Announcements, Press Releases, What's New
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NEW TALKSHOE COMMUNITY CALLING BRINGS THE
POWER OF VOICE TO SOCIAL MEDIA

Web-Based Version of TalkShoe Enables Users to Host or Participate in a Community Call for Up to 250 People: No Registration or Download Required

Pittsburgh, PA – February 4, 2008 –TalkShoe, the community call leader, today announced the latest version of the company’s community call service, integrating the power of voice into online social networks. Group voice allows people to establish deeper connections with their online networks. The latest version of TalkShoe now enables members and non-members to join a call with one click of a button, eliminating the need for site registration or software download. Community call hosts and participants can now integrate their TalkShoe calls directly into their established social networks including Facebook, Ning, MySpace and Meebo.

News Highlights:
• A new web client means no download and no registration required, just click and participate in a community call
• Facebook,MySpace, Meebo and blog integration, complete with easy to install widgets, makes TalkShoe as the voice of social media
• Multiple forms of access via phone, mobile phone, Skype, or VoIP
• Full host control with voice muting and text-chat censoring
• Optional recording and podcasting of a call
• TalkShoe Live Classic still available with advanced host features such as one-click ShoePhone ™, text-chat threading, chat sorting, see-who’s-talking, etc.

Attributed to Dave Nelsen, president and CEO, TalkShoe
“Internet users have a need to communicate more deeply with their online communities. The power of voice can bridge the gaps in traditional social networking and the new TalkShoe service leverages this fact by granting instant access to community calls to anyone, anywhere, anytime.”

Attributed to Cliff Ravenscraft, Professional Podcaster and Community Call user
“The new TalkShoe breaks down the barriers that at one time prevented many listeners from participating in my live shows because they didn’t want to go through the hassle of registering yet another user name and password on yet another website and then download another software package. Now, potential listeners can simply click on a link from my TalkShoe page and immediately join a community call. I have already noticed considerably more responses to my show invitations and I’m thrilled with this new opportunity to build even greater relationships with my social community.”

About TalkShoe
TalkShoe community calling integrates the power of group voice into your online networks to establish a deeper connection. Community calling uses the phone, cell phone or VoIP to enable group conversations between anyone, anywhere, anytime, allowing people to host and record interactive community calls on any topic. TalkShoe community calling integrates seamlessly with your already established social networks including Facebook, Meebo, and Ning. To learn more about how TalkShoe uses the power of peoples’ voices to establish deeper and more meaningful relationships with your communities visit us at www.talkshoe.com or +1 724-935-TALK (8255).

For more information contact:
Jessica Devaney
781-356-7173
jdevaney@horngroup.com

The New TalkShoe - a message from the CEO

January 9, 2008 at 9:24 am | Author: TalkShoe Team | In Announcements, Press Releases, What's New
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A message from the CEO - Dave NelsenI’m extremely excited to tell you about our new release. We’ve de it much easier for you and your online friends and communities to all TALK together. How much easier you say?Now there’s no need to sign-up or download, so EVEN NON-MEMBERS can call in to talk or text chat with JUST ONE CLICK.Imagine deeper group connections with up to 250 people on phones and computers talking, text chatting, and listening. We’ve also made it a lot easier to start your own show to voice your ideas and interact with listeners. Click here to get started: And be sure to return every evening after 7:00 PM when the site starts seriously shaking — there’s more live interaction than ever! You can get to the new TalkShoe Live web version by going to the profile page of any live call and clicking the button labeled TalkShoe Web (NOTE: you can get to the profile page by clicking on the show title text on any listing).

Dave Nelsen - Founder

P.S. - And now firewalls can’t block your communication so you can even use TalkShoe at work.