Ric Richardson

751903589 I love Jott, the wonderfully useful voice to transcription to email service that has been gaining steam over the last year or so. But it has some serious missing capabilities that I really need and think a lot of other people need too. 1. The message length of 30 seconds is too short. 2. Having a mail recipient go to a web site to hear the original message is a big ask and in the end limits its usability. 3. Voice messages are in-the-moment things and even being slowed down to select who you want the message to go to is a big problem for me when all I want to do is capture the idea. These issues and problems are the see of a project I started working on called MP3VM.com . The idea behind MP3VM is simple. A very simple and fast voice message service that answers the phone with a minimal intro such as "Recording now..." that saves the message when you hang up or press 1 to an mp3 file that is sent to your email for you to forward or annotate as needed. Here are some ...

Later today, we are going to open the doors on our new upload site that will allow anybody with a PDF or consequitavly numbered JPEGs to publish in zkimmer format.... we hope you think it's cool. The site will be swapped over to http://zkimmer.com tomorrow afternoon PST. Come and try it out. Thanks for visiting.

Way back around 99, I worked with IP law firm Akin Gump to try for a patent in the area of bridging supplier web sites (like Nike.com per se) with retailer sites (such as footlocker.com) so that anyone looking at a supplier site could be easily linked to a retailer site without the need for the supplier setting up a retailer database, or the retailer having to convince the supplier to link to them... in my ideal world, a trusted accounting firm such as Ernst&Young would run the site and all the suppliers in the world would have a little icon attached to every product page that would link to the E&Y database that in turn linked to a list of retailers search-able by price and distance. On the retailers side all they needed to do was publish their inventory to E&Y as a backup of their existing inventory control system and voila... an internet surfer could look at the Lays website for the flavor potato chips they like and then with one click know the nearest 711 that had it in ...