Hearing your Voice is Better

How can I Call My Website?

Wouldn't it be nice if you could call in updates to your website using your cell phone, and have them immediately available to your web audience?

With Call The Web, you can Call Your Website. After you set up your account,  program our number into your cell phone, and paste one line of html into your website, you can leave voice messages for anybody who visits your site.

What is Call The Web?

Call The Web is a way for people to use any telephone to update groups of people, instantly and easily, using the power of the internet.

Call The Web bridges any telephone in the world to the internet, letting you leave voice messages for yourself, for your friends and family, or for your teammates, congregation, students, or fans, that they can easily access on the world wide web.

These messages can be private or public, depending upon whether you tell people that they exist by linking to them, or otherwise divulging their existence.

Think of it as an answering machine in reverse, where only you can leave messages, but anybody that knows they exist, can hear them.

Are you a SnapVine Replacement?

If you're a former SnapVine user, you may find that Call The Web replaces SnapVine for your audio broadcasting needs.  It tends to appeal to those who are serious about the image they portray on the web and about reliable and robust communication to large groups.  If you're an amateur voice blogger looking for a free replacement for SnapVine, we're probably not for you. We should tell you that Call The Web differs from SnapVine in several ways.

1. Your voice blogs are available on  your website, but at this time, not on MySpace or Facebook.
2. Call The Web voice blogs do not allow audio comments.  We have concentrated on allowing you high quality audio broadcasting to your web audience, but we have no plans to allow your web audience to do audio comments.
3. Call The Web is a paid service.  We offer a free plan, but to make the most of Call The Web, you'll purchase a $10 per month subscription.

All that said, if you're serious about connecting with your web audience, and keeping them updated from anywhere in the world, using just your phone, Call The Web provides a set of features such as voice altering, extremely customizable badges, automatic message expiration, and phone numbers in most major US cities with international numbers on the way, which our users find extremely useful.  Also, because we are a paid service, our site shutting down is not something you'll need to worry about.  Give us a try and see what you think.

What is a Badge, and when would I use it?

A badge allows only your most recent message to be heard.  Additionally, it can be set to display 'no messages', if your most recent message has expired based on some rule that you set.

You would use a badge because you want to keep people from hearing old messages.  You may be doing this to force them to come to your website to avoid missing messages, or you may be doing this because you don't want to confuse them with old, obsolete messages.

If you want to describe your daily specials, you don't want some poor web surfer to be listening to the specials for last thursday, and think that's what you're cooking tonight.  If you want to say that school is closed today due to snow, you don't want students hearing that message tomorrow.  Badges are perfect for these sorts of applications.

What is a Widget, and when would I use it?

Widgets give you a handy bucket for all your voice messages to be accessed by your web audience.  Since all of your old messages that you haven't deleted are available, your web audience can bring themselves up to date, if they missed a few messages.  Widgets are great for travel reporting, convention reporting, or any time you have experiences that you want to share.

Do I need to be a computer person to use this?

Absolutely Not.  We have retirees who use us as they travel in their RV's to keep track of each other, and see who is in town.  We have truckers who use us to leave one message before they go to sleep, telling their wives and their shipping companies where they are and that they're OK.  We have chefs who describe to their hungry patrons, their special of the day, and we have vacationers, who use us to let their friends and family back home experience the wonders that they are encountering in their travels, as they encounter them.

Once you set up and configure your account, you can use us purely from your telephone.

I am a computer expert. Why not just twitter?

You can twitter.  In fact, we can send an automatic twitter for you, whenever you leave a new voice message.  Call The Web is a different tool in your communications toolbox. 

Use Call The Web when you're staring at the Grand Canyon, and 140 dry characters can't begin to capture what you're feeling. 

Use it when you must respond to breaking news, and it's important that your response be in your own voice, not just sterile typed words. 

Use it when you want to convince your friends to meet you at a club, and you know it will take more than a text message to pry them off their couches.

Use it when real life happens, and you want to respond to it, record it, or explain it, sincerely and expeditiously.

I have a lot of people visiting my site. Can you handle my load?

Call The Web uses multiple servers in multiple data centers, as well as 3rd party content delivery networks to serve our users messages to websites all over the world.

We can handle your load and give your users a quality multimedia experience, no matter how much traffic your site generates.