A group of engineers from Google, Twitter and SayNow (which Google acquired last week) were hard at work building a speak-to-tweet service for protesters in Egypt this weekend.
The service, which is already live, enables users to send tweets using a voice connection. Anyone can tweet by leaving a voicemail on one of three international phone numbers: +16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855. Tweets sent using the service will automatically include the hashtag #egypt.
People can also listen to the messages by dialing the above numbers, and by clicking on the links posted to @speak2tweet.
“We hope that this will go some way to helping people in Egypt stay connected at this very difficult time. Our thoughts are with everyone there,” Ujjwal Singh, co-founder of SayNow, and Google product manager Abdel Karim Mardini wrote in a blog post.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Google Launches Voice-to-Twitter Service To Help Protesters in Egypt
Where have all the Bananas gone?
The Kitchen is Home
The kitchen is where I thrive on weekends. Cooking, cleaning, mixing drinks; I love my kitchen. This weekend, after a quick trip to IKEA I've begun to make this kitchen my own. Ironic? Maybe.
I've started all this change because of the chaos that's settled upon my shoulders. My family's recent troubles, the realization that my daughter and goddaughter live thousands of miles away, and the constant close quarters that are my home life have all formed a pressure on my chest that just won't go away...until I start cooking. I love the feeling of control that cooking allows me. The smells, consistency, and taste; they all are something that I control (for better worse) in entirety.
It's so refreshing to have that few hours a week where I am in control of an hour my life, no questions asked, no explanation required.
I'm looking forward to more hours and hopefully more peace in the new future. Until then, the kitchen is my domain and there I rule, unencumbered.