The approach we have taken with reviews on blogs until now has been built around a standard called hreview. Many bloggers are a fan of this portable format and we continue to support it strongly. But we have received many requests for something more lightweight which still enables people to get their reviews into LouderVoice [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Second Competition Winner
January 28th, 2008The second week of the competition is over and we can now announce the winner of a Hairy Baby t-shirt.
Mark Twomey from Cork in Ireland wins with his hilarious review of the Gillette Fusion Power razor. As with last week's winner, Mark is vying for top spot on google.ie. Well done Mark. His review of [...]
Can you review a wine in 7 words?
January 24th, 2008Julian from Bubble Brothers let us know about the wonderful Wine Blogging Wednesday community and what they get up to.
The idea is simple: Different bloggers propose ideas for themes or topics for each month and one becomes the host for the month. Participating bloggers then buy a wine that is consistent with the theme and [...]
First Competition Winner
January 20th, 2008The first week of the competition is over and we can now announce the winner of a Hairy Baby t-shirt.
John Goodman from Wicklow in Ireland wins with his SMS mini-review of comedian Tommy Tiernan's "OK Baby". This was the most read review on the site over the past week. Not only that, but his review [...]
LouderVoice sponsoring The Irish Blog Awards
January 15th, 2008 We're really pleased to announce that we are sponsoring the Best Blog Post award at the 2008 Irish Blog Awards on March 1st in Dublin. Given that so much of LouderVoice is about bloggers and great review blogposts, it only seemed appropriate.
A big thank you to Damien Mulley for once again organising the awards. [...]
Tag your mini-reviews
January 15th, 2008This is a little bit of a niche feature but several users have asked for it so we added tagging to mini-reviews on LouderVoice. The idea here is that normally if you send a review by SMS or Twitter/Jaiku/Pownce then it doesn't have any user defined category like "wine" or "movie". However, with "hashtags", if [...]
Win Prizes for your Reviews
January 12th, 2008We are thrilled to announce our first competition on LouderVoice. For the next few weeks Hairy Baby will give one of their fantastic standard t-shirts to the most popular review of each week.
If you haven't seen these t-shirts then you are really missing out. They are the funniest, wittiest ones you are likely to find [...]
