Talkr.com - Cross-Blog Voice Conferencing

The newly launched voice platform Talkr allows you to install a widget in your blog or website which in turn enables conference style discussions. Fellow blog readers can chat amongst themselves whilst the blog auteur/author is offline. Talkr extends itself further as a conversational bridge across multiple blogs on the same topic; the widget may be embedded in any number of disparate, yet similarly themed blogs allowing cross-blog conferencing. The world of 2.0 has certainly gotten much more interesting with the expanding capabilities of audio; Talkr supplements and perhaps may replace podcasts as a means to communicate with the world. Comparisons to Skype and other VoIP services may be made, however, Talkr boasts some serious points as it´s free to use and requires absolutely no downloading.

“Relying on its track record in Web-based content and online consumer services, LiveOnTheNet has taken several bold steps in its move into providing online, interactive voice and audio services. The company acquired the popular Talkr.com -- a text-to-speech service popular with thousands of bloggers. In addition, LiveOnTheNet will soon be releasing a proprietary and highly inovative innovative voice conferencing platform that features a revolutionary voice conferencing widget that requires no software client or downloads.”

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As pointed out in other blogs, Talkr is a Java based application, meaning it´s slow to load and not compatible with a host of popular sites. Also, will Talkr foster meaningful, or worthwhile conversation or will it be overtaken by spammers and oddball types with nothing real to contribute? Will the site add more information about how to use the service?