Introducing Jott Feeds
June 3, 2008Today we are happy to announce a new addition to our mobile suite of features… Jott Feeds!
What the heck is it? Well, it’s a simple way of keeping up-to-date with your favorite blogs, Twitter and Facebook when you’re not at your computer… just by listening to them. Jott Feeds is like having a combination personal assistant and your very own news radio station… that you can control as easily as an iPod.
How do I start listening to feeds?
1) Call 866-JOTT-123, or your local Canadian number
2) When asked “Who do you want to Jott?” say “Jott Feeds”
3) When asked “Which feed?” reply with TechCrunch, Lifehacker, Mashable, SmartMoney, News or Weather (all of which have been added to your account already so you can give this a try right away).
4) Listen!
You can add lots of different blogs and sites to your account so you can listen to them. We created a library of sorts, so you can add commonly read sites, and set it up so you can easily enter your Twitter or Facebook information to get those updates too. Finally, we made it really easy to skip forward or go back in Jott Feeds using your phone’s keypad.
So now when you hop in the car on the way to work, put on that Bluetooth headset and have your stock quotes, Twitter updates, and news headlines all read to you. It’s a little bit like a radio station designed just for you.
How does it work?
We take the RSS feed from blogs and sites, convert it into audio using text-to-speech technology and send that audio to your phone.
Not sure what that means?
Have no fear, you’re not alone, and you actually don’t need to learn this new vocabulary to get the full effect of the feature, since we added all of this for you. But in case you’re curious… RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, a feed is a constantly updated list, and RSS feeds really do mean just that- a constantly updated list of all your syndicated news sources.
What that means for you and me, is that RSS is an easy (they weren’t lying about the simple part) way to get updates from your favorite websites and new sources and Jott Feeds makes this simple even when away from your computer. Some feeds sound better than others of course, so feel free to experiment, and let us know what you think.
Add your own RSS
There are millions of different RSS feeds that are important to people, and we can’t list them all. So if there’s a feed you’d like to listen to that we don’t have listed as a Featured Feed, add your own feed by cutting and pasting the feed URL into your Jott account.
This is awesome! It has now simplified my life in a big way - I can now happily review my channel feeds on my walk to daughter’s school. You rock.
Comment by Kelly — June 3, 2008 @ 11:35 am
AWESOME does not begin to describe this. Brilliant is more like it. Now if you could add the option to play an enclosure if there was a podcast associated with an item in the feed, that would add another level of awesome to Jott Feeds.
Thank you!
Comment by Ed Roberts — June 3, 2008 @ 12:09 pm
Is this available only for Canada and Us or for example also for Italy?
Comment by Dario Salvelli — June 4, 2008 @ 3:23 am
@ Dario- Right now the Jott service is only availabel in the US and Canada.
@Ed and Kelly- Great! We’ve been really excited about Jott Feeds for some time now and it’s so nice to hear you’re enjoying it.
Comment by kate — June 4, 2008 @ 8:12 am
There seems to be a bug with your badges. In order to get a badge, you click the “Get the Feed Badge” link and plug in your info.
That is the only place where you can obtain the code for that badge. How do you obtain a bagde from Jott Feeds you already created?
It seems that you have to re-create a new Jott Feed just to get the code to get the badge.
Perhaps on the My Jott Feeds, Edit Feeds part, you can add the badge code at the bottom so we don’t have to recreate this whole feed again just for the badge code.
Thanks!
I love you guys!!!! Jott ROCKS!
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@ijeannieflm - Hm. Are you referring to the badge as you would put it on your blog? Or asking how you can an add a badge to your site that shows which feeds you’ve added? Right now the Feeds Badge is really designed as a way for the readers of your blog to easily add your blog, but not the ones you’ve also added to your account. Let me know!
Comment by kate — June 10, 2008 @ 8:00 am
Wow. Yet another reason to love Jott. As if I needed any. I love Jott already. I am going to name my next child Jott. I love Jott so much I might even form a sovereign nation of Jott, establish myself as the leader, develop a Jott currency and our own language… Who is with me?
Comment by Andrew — June 10, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
Is hanging up the phone the only way to stop a feed? How can you switch feeds from NEWS to WEATHER in the middle?
Thanks
Comment by Fred — June 11, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
You can actually go back to the Feeds menu or skip articles within a feed using your phone’s keypad. There are complete steps on all the keypad shortcuts at http://jott.com/feedtips.aspx.
Comment by kate — June 11, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Thanks, Kate. I knew there must be a way.
Comment by Fred — June 14, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
How can I put my jott notes in my blog? Is there a rss to my jott ?
Thanks
Comment by Chris — August 28, 2008 @ 7:01 am
Same Q as Chris above - I would like to find an RSS feed for my Jott notes, so I can see them along with everything else in my RSS reader. Any suggestions?
Comment by Jeff — January 29, 2009 @ 12:53 pm