Jott Comes Out Of Beta

Jott is great. Jott is convenient. Jott is key to a whole lot of people’s productivity these days. Jott is out of Beta.

The ability to make a call to Jott, speak for 15 seconds and receive a transcription back (or even send it to someone else) is amazing and since it was first launched, Jott was entirely free. Well, the party is over. Mostly.

Jott emerged from Beta last week and is now a fee service. Like Evernote, Jott will continue to offer a free, but limited, service. With it you will be able to record a 15 second message and have a transcription returned to you. Jott for iPhone, as well s Jott Express, will also remain free for 15 second messages.

If you want your Jott’s returned to you via email or sms, use a Blackberry, want access to all Jott feeds rather than just the free limited ones, however, you are now going to have to cough up some cash. Fortunately, the pricing plans seem rather reasonable, especially when you take into account that availability of a free option.

The $3.95 Monthly plan gives you
-15 seconds of recording time
-allows you to manage Jotts via email
-returns your jotts to you via email or sms
-adds Jott for Outlook (but not for Blackberry)
-adds Premium Jott links (key if you use RTM, Toodledo, Mentat or other web services)

The $12.95 Jott Pro subscription includes all that plus…
-increases recording time to 30 seconds
-adds Jott for Blackberry

Jott will also offer Pay-As-You-Go options that provides 60 seconds of recording time and access to all of Jott’s feature without being locked into a contract.

Every company needs a business model that either looks toward acquisition or brings in regular revenue and I figured Jott would obviously have to come out with a pricing structure. I’m glad to see that they have made it one that is accessible to all and includes reasonably priced premium services for those who need more and are able and willing to pay it.

For details check Jott’s website here.

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Untethered: How We Learned To Love The Cloud

One of the great technological advances of the past few years is the growing presence of “Cloud Computing” aka Web 2.0 in the mainstream. The basic concept behind Cloud Computing is this, rather than a particular application sitting resident on a device (ie. being run on the device itself), be it a computer or a smartphone, the application, and all related data sits on an outside server and is accessed through a web browser. In the simplest sense, the server (which can be anywhere in the world) becomes both the brains and the storage space for everything associated with it and the device simply becomes the doorway through which it is reached.

This is where both the power and the Achilles Heel of Web 2.0 can be seen. Read more »

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