Spoink

Spoink is a free social networking and multimedia micro-blogging service that provides telecommunication, online journals, email and social networking services to individuals and businesses. Spoink integrates Podcasting, Blogging and Telephony into a unified interface with personal status updates and social networking. This service enables anyone to podcast on any phone from anywhere as well as post audio, video, pictures and text via short message service (SMS), instant messaging (IM), email or via a web browser.

Origins
Spoink, Inc. was founded in 2007 by industry veteran Erik Bowman. The initial intent was to create a toll free telephony solution that converts voice messages to podcasts. Spoink originally grew out of a development project with Vertical Answer), a Hosted PBX company located in Redondo Beach, California. The project quickly took on a life of its own during alpha testing as enhancements were suggested by users and were later implemented. These enhancements included support for micro-blogging as well as audio, video and picture hosting. Support for submissions via instant message, email, SMS, MMS and direct web posts were then added and over a 3 month private beta process additional refinements were implemented. On May 15, 2008 the public beta was released to the general public.

The Spoink trademark was originally applied for December 3, 2006 and was successfully registered (Registration Number 3289873) trademark since September 11, 2007

Features
Multimedia posts (Audio, Video, Pictures) can be made via Web Interface, Email, MMS and Toll Free call from most telephones.

Text posts can be up to 500 characters (nearly 100 words) and can be made via Web Interface, Email, Instant Message and SMS. Limitations on text post size is dictated by your IM or Mobile Carrier.

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