Friday, March 23, 2007

We've acquired Talkr.com

This post is a little overdue, but I'll include it for completeness.

Back in February, LiveOnTheNet acquired Talkr.com a popular web site/service that provides text-to-speech (TTS) conversion to over 2,000 bloggers. Chris Brooks, the founder, is a wonderful and talented guy who is been great to work with.

Reason for acquisition? We were excited about the TTS service and great reputation that Talkr had built among the blogging community. Our background has been in streaming media and online consumer services... so we have a lot to learn about the blogosphere.

We've got an exciting new product about to rollout... the beta is strongly directed towards bloggers, so Chris has taught us many, many useful things. We'll be branding this new product Talkr as well, and hope there's not too much confusion about the traditional Talkr TTS services versus the new Talkr service which focuses on instant voice conferencing.

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