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Jott.com is the most useful website I’ve seen in a while.  It’s simple… link your jott account to your phone number.   Leave a message to yourself or another contact and it gets converted to text and emailed.

I created an account for my father today.  He has never been very good with computers but he always gets asked to email clients and family.  With Jott he was able to email three people in a couple of minutes.  The quality of the transcription is very good. From what I’ve read they automate the transcripton with software then send unknown phrases to live transcribers who clean up the message.

Once I signed up for myself I instantly wanted to integrate this into other services esp. twitter.  Turns out they’ve added a development api to mashup their service with other services.  Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger, etc are supported. Works like a charm.

Def give this a try. It’s free and works in the US and CA

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Our next project will support OpenID which, as I mentioned before, rocks!

There are a couple of flaws with it though. First, it’s only an identity service so there is no way to know if the person is trustworthy. All you know is that they own the ID. Second, it’s missing an email address, so if you want to contact that person you can’t (i think).

Well there is one service out there that offers an open reputation platform for email called rapleaf. We use them on junkdepot and it works wonderfly!

I think it would be amazing if rapleaf offered support for open id’s that way you could tie a reputation to the identity and even an email (via the rapleaf api).

All they would need to do is extend their api to support lookups by openid and allow users to claim an openid on their rapleaf profile.

I sent them an email asking if they plan to do it. I’ll let you know what they say… here’s hoping!

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