Good afternoon,

We have two product releases for you today. Both of these products help you to create and share group discussions with colleagues, friends, and people with similar interests.

Release #1: Utterli Free Group Texting

This new app lets you send text messages to your friends (one or many) in Facebook, Bebo, and Utterli. This is the first app to bridge your friend connections on all three networks. Recipients of your text messages can receive and respond from within their social network interface or on their mobile phone. From the phone, standard mobile texting charges apply, but there are no charges for texts handled within Bebo and Facebook – which is great if you have a limited texting plan or can’t reach your Bebo friends in the UK, Ireland and elsewhere. And, to celebrate the launch of this app, we’ve created a contest rewarding people that send the most texts in a given month. The reward is an iPod Touch. Give this app a try (on Bebo here), it’s simple, it’s global, it’s economical, and it’s fun.

Special note for app developers and Utterli “evangelistas”: you might care to know that Utterli Free Group Texting is based on our Utterli GroupMMS platform, the underlying web + voice platform that fuels multimedia publishing and group messaging at Utterli.com.

Release #2: Utterli Desktop Application 1.0 available now
Today we released version 1.0 of our Utterli Desktop application, an update to our beta AIR app that includes several key new capabilities – multimedia utter creation from the desktop app and integration of your contacts and groups lists for easier sharing of utters.

We really want to thank Paisano and the Utterli Ambassadors for reviewing and testing a limited beta release earlier this month. The feedback from these community members, especially on the utter creation GUI and presentation of contacts and groups. These inputs were critical to improving this app quickly. On behalf of the entire team here, I just want to thank you all for your tireless support and vocal feedback.

And, while we’re sharing news, I can’t pass up the opportunity to drop a hint here: Our previous beta release of the Utterli Air App, which is really focuses on passive viewing, listening and reading, was initially developed for a consumer electronics partner. This is why it was developed with restricted production capabilities. Stay tuned for more news on that later☺

Thanks for your time today. As always, we welcome your feedback. And, we hope you enjoy these two releases!

AaronB

Utterli Desktop App Release Notes

Upgraded/changed from Utterli Desktop beta to v1.0:

• extends timeline as user scrolls to the end
• displays audio playback progress
• refreshes utter every time utter is selected
• removes extra CR/LF
• new missing avatar

New to Utterli Desktop Application v1.0

• contacts menu list
• contacts/groups/connections list sorting
• fix for local time zones
• added audio activity meter to audio/video recording
• added connection support
• groups and connection menu list
• bugs with mixed media types fixed
• lower silence threshold for mic
• live audio recording for new/reply utters
• live video recording for new/reply utters
• video file upload
• audio file upload
• support for simultaneous upload of pics/audio/video