TellMe taken — terrific!
March 13th, 2007
GigaOM reports that voice controlled telephone services company TellMe has been purchased, by Microsoft no less, for north of $800 million. Good for them! I’ve been using their flagship product for years. It’s always worked extremely well, and even allowed me to set up a dial-in pirate radio station of sorts 5 or so years ago. By using VoiceXML (I believe it was called) and their developers center, I could dial 1-800-555-TELL, say “Developers”, say my unique ID (94556), and then I’d get a menu offering me any of three different, horribly compressed rap songs. Fun times! Little Jeffy using code!
Though as good as TellMe’s recognition has been, it always faltered in one place for me. I have spent more time trying to get the service to take me to the stock quote for PALM than I care to dwell on. Terrible.
