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GetVocal Launches Spree.ly - Social Shopping

2009-11-28T09:59:00.000-08:00

Spree.ly (http://Spree.ly), GetVocal.com’s latest self-funded social experiment, has been released in the “Nick” of time to help with your online Christmas social shopping experience. Spree.ly (@spreely) allows you to shop online with your family and friends on virtually any shopping site.

Spree.ly provides a proxy-based, shop-with-a-friend experience with no registration or sign-ins and with built-in live chat. In addition to Amazon, Spree.ly lets you shop with an unlimited number of friends at Nordstrom, Barnes and Noble, Apple, Overstock, Williams-Sonoma, and Frederick’s of Hollywood. Our flexible architecture allows us to approve more stores weekly! In fact if you are brave enough to help beta test new shopping sites, we have included place in the store directory for you to go to any web address that you would like to surf with your friends (Caution: not all shopping sites play nice!)

Built using Ruby on Rails in less than 30 days, Spree.ly is designed from the bottom up to provide online shoppers with the most secure and social shopping experience. At the heart of our application is a custom-built, secure proxy service with real-time, push-based messaging and no database or data store of any kind. The only data persisted is temporary cookies as required by most shopping sites but all of these cookies get eaten by our Cookie Monster every night at midnight.

Like Google Wave, Spree.ly employs a real-time push messaging service for its live chat and webpage URL communication between you and your friends while browsing sites. These messages are pushed out as one-time broadcasts to all browsers shopping under the 5 character session appended to the end of the Spree.ly URL. Once these messages are delivered in real-time, they are gone from their servers. New friends joining the shopping experience will not see previous chat messages or web page URLs visited by you and your friends. You are also notified as new friends join your shopping experience. To learn more about our security considerations, please visit http://spree.ly/browse/security.

You can begin your social shopping experience by directing your browser to http://spree.ly and clicking on the link in the middle of the page with the 5 character suffix. You can update your status messages on Twitter and Facebook or via e-mail to alert your friends of your current shopping spree online. You will be notified instantly as your friends join Spree.ly and immediately be able to chat and share web pages with them in the sidebar on the left of the page.

Our revenue model is based on an affiliate program, revenue sharing model but we hope to bring customers special offers such as additional discounts and free shipping promotions not advertised on these sites.

For more information, you can follow Spree.ly on Twitter at http://twitter.com/spreely or visit http://spree.ly/about or contact chris@getvocal.com.

New GetVocal Blog

2008-07-18T08:51:00.000-07:00

GetVocal has a new blog at http://getvocal.tumblr.com. We are doing some really cool things with telephony and mobile 2.0. Check it out!

Listen to your MP3s on the Phone

2007-01-17T16:23:00.000-08:00

Surf-By-Tel now supports MP3s! This means that you can listen to your favorite songs or podcasts over the telephone. Simply sign-up for a Surf-By-Tel account, add links to your favorite web page bookmarks, RSS feeds, or MP3s and call our demo line.

- No iPod Required -

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Surf-By-Tel Site Redesign

2006-12-31T20:04:00.000-08:00

Check out the new Surf-By-Tel site redesign! It's not all looks - new functionality was also added. If you don't already have an account, you can create on for free. Once signed in, you can add your favorite bookmarked pages to your account, favorite RSS news feeds, and even create custom extensions. Custom extensions can be either new URLs to surf (including MP3s - songs, podcasts, audio books, etc - or you can now create custom web pages to surf via the phone simply by selecting Extensions at the main SurfByTel menu.

Surf-By-Tel is the Web 2.0 voice browser from GetVocal. The GetVocal Surf-By-Tel voice browser allows you to surf the web with only your telephone and your voice! Our Web 2.0 Voice Portal technology dynamically converts any website's HTML code to speech on-the-fly making our solution perfect for mobile professionals and/or visually impaired customers.

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Surf Web with Your Voice

2006-12-27T18:57:00.000-08:00

SurfByTel, GetVocal's Web 2.0 voice browser, allows visually impaired people and mobile professionals to surf the web with only their phone.

Surf-By-Tel is a flexible, cost-effective solution, offering alternative to IVR. Using standard HTML as the base language, Surf-By-Tel solutions are driven by the content of web pages and the caller's voice. Using natural dialog, these services allow customers or internal staff easy access to a wide range of information from any telephone, at any time, from anywhere.

Build powerful telephone applications with simple HTML or publish your home page to a telephone number.

No installation or setup required. Our Surf-By-Tel runs as an ASP hosted application that can be accessed by any VoiceXML Gateway!

Features include:

Launch Pad with Online Help
Links and Image alt tag support
In page anchor tag support
Previous page navigation
Embedded audio tag support
Spell URLs / Search Engine keywords
RSS Newsfeed version 2.0 support
Audio books supported
Rotating voice banner advertisements
Telephone cookies with favorite links
Last page return on next call

Give our demo a call at 617-712-3924 and let us know what you think!

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