Archive for the ‘Releases’ Category

Ultra Simple Mini-Reviews on Twitter

LouderVoice was the first reviews company to realise the importance of Twitter. That’s why we’re the people behind @review which we launched in June 2007.
Since then we’ve played and tweaked mini-reviews based on user feedback.
Following more research we realised that many people were doing mini-reviews using the simple method of just adding #review on to [...]

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LouderVoice Reviews for Google Android

Yesterday evening we uploaded the first public beta of our Google Android mobile application to the Android Market.

This is the first Irish Android application and one of the very first reviewing applications on the platform.
You’ll have to patiently wait for the launches of the HTC Magic and Samsung I7500 before  most Irish people can try [...]

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Updated LouderVoice Wordpress Plugin

We have two bits of news about our LouderVoice plug-in. The first is that it is now Wordpress 2.7 compatible and the second is that we have moved the hosting over to Wordpress.org. This means that from now on, when we update it, you’ll see a notification in your Wordpress Admin Panel.
Apart from the 2.7 [...]

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LouderVoice for Business launched

Over the past few months we have been trialling our business services with several clients. Some of those are already live, others will go live over the next quarter. We now have a very nice brochure site to go with these services and a very powerful content moderation back-end for our clients.
The LouderVoice for Business [...]

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LouderVoice Version 2 is very very close

We’ve been working round the clock to get the next version of LouderVoice out the door. We are within a hair’s breadth now! What can you expect to see?

A big redesign with a much busier home page to enable you to explore the site more easily
Reviews and comments in-site so you no longer need a [...]

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Easy Blog Reviews with Flag Tags

The approach we have taken with reviews on blogs until now has been built around a standard called hreview. Many bloggers are a fan of this portable format and we continue to support it strongly. But we have received many requests for something more lightweight which still enables people to get their reviews into LouderVoice [...]

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We now support Pownce too

We just enabled support for Pownce that is identical to our Twitter and Jaiku support. Just make sure your reviews are sent to the public on Pownce and use http://www.pownce.com/feeds/public/your_user_name as the RSS feed when adding it to your sources on LouderVoice.
This on Pownce:

Becomes this on LouderVoice:

As always, let us know here if you have [...]

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Add your Twitter/Jaiku accounts to LouderVoice

After a long gestation peroid we now have proper Twitter and Jaiku support in LouderVoice. Each LouderMini review you do on those sites will be associated to your account here along with any SMS reviews or blog reviews that you do.
We have changed the approach from the previous @review on Twitter and #reviews on Jaiku. [...]

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Mini-Review Tweak

After getting a lot of user feedback we’ve decided to change the format used in mini-reviews slightly. Whereas before you used fullstop+space to separate the reviewed item from the opinion, we now encourage you to use a colon. This should reduce the number of invalid reviews where the space was left out. Many people also [...]

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Text Us Your Loves and Your Loathings

We’re really excited by this latest feature. You can now SMS your reviews directly to LouderVoice. So if you walk out of a terrible movie or wonderful restaurant or just want to get your opinion on any product or service off your chest, then now you can. Those reviews will appear within seconds on the [...]

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