Kennedy-Spaien, Dot Com

Michael Bailey of MobaSoft is a great guy. I first met him at PodCamp Boston where he was networking and promoting his service MobaTalk (formerly MyChingo).

MyChingo is a voice commenting system for blogs, kind of like a public VOIP answering machine for your site. The name came from CHAT+LINGO. As it turns out, that name is strikingly similar to something very naughty indeed in Spanish. To fix that, as of later this year (when video support is added) the new name will be MobaTalk.

In the world of blog comments, audio is a great feature. I have tried using a dedicated phone line on some of our GNMHealth shows and I have also used MyChingo. What I have discovered is that the audiences for our shows don’t like sending audio comments as much as we enjoy getting them. Or even at all. In ANY format.

I see a lot of the people in the New Media Twitter circles sporting the MyChingo player on their sites, all filled up with comments. So it seems that perhaps it is a matter of demographics. Assuming that is the case, this blog may be a good place to try it again, as the audience here is quite different from the show sites I run.

I’ll be putting it up within the next week, and once it is in place, I’ve put the MobaTalk player up in the sidebar, so please feel free to drop me a line! In the mean time:
A) Have you used the MyChingo commenting system? How has it worked for you?
B) If you haven’t tried it yet, give it a whirl and let me know what you think of it.