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23 Sept 2010

KDDI Launches Bubble Motion's BubbleBlog -- Introduces Japan's First Voice-Blogging Service


Named "Koe-Now™" (meaning 'human-voice now'), Japan's only voice-blogging service makes it easy and fun for fans to follow their favorite celebrity voices through their phone.

Mobile audio social networking pioneer Bubble Motion is today announcing KDDI as its latest operator partner to deploy its industry-leading BubbleBlog voice-blogging platform. Deployed by systems integrator NEC, KDDI's "Koe-Now™" service launches today and is Japan's first consumer service in the explosive voice-blogging space.
Bubble Motion's BubbleBlog platform delivers a voice-blogging phone service so that people can share status updates in their own voice with fans and followers. These 'bubblers' just record their voice update into their phone, and instantly their followers everywhere are notified by SMS and prompted to click and listen. BubbleBlog, already hugely popular in India with more than 2-million users, has been described as a voice-based Twitter.
How It Works
Japanese stars such as actors, musicians, comedians and other celebrities have agreed to use the service as a unique and innovative way to connect with fans and followers. It's simple and fun for celebrity voice-bloggers to use; they simply dial a code, record their update and hang up their phone - and all of their fans and followers will get notified to listen to their update.

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