New Animated Car-bot Voki!

Hello hello!

I wanted to tell everyone about our new characters -- The J-bots.  They really are more than meets the eye...  You can find them in the "Random" section when choosing your character type.  These are a really fun new animated character -- try them out yourselves, but they sure did rev my engine...

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Avatars Gone Wild: The Contest

There are a lot of things that you can do with a Voki... send a get well message, introduce people to your blog, leave a comment on a friend's MySpace...

But THIS has got to be the craziest thing yet.  Check out our super secret, super sexy, sort of safe for work but be careful how loud your speakers are Abstinence Day Contest.

The Top 5 Worst Messages You Can Hear From a Voki

Voki can be a fun way to communicate with your friends, since you can e-mail your scenes to whoever you want.  When you register, Voki saves all the scenes you send and receive, in case you ever want to go back to them.   Sometimes, though, you'd probably rather forget you ever got a Voki message, especially if you get one of these:

1. One quarter at a time...

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2. Breaking up is hard to... well, no, I suppose its actually pretty easy

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3. Chuck Norris: Voki User #666

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4. Maybe Camp Counseling isn't such a bad idea...

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5. And you thought you had rough neighbors...

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Bonus:

 

Meet your son's new girlfriend:

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How to Make a Voki... in Spanish

Our Spanish may be limited to what we learned on Sesame Street, but that doesn't stop our users from coming up with their own instructions on how to make a Voki in their own language.

Check out this "how to" for Spanish speakers.

New Voki Players!

Hello Voki-lovers.

We have been listening to your requests and here they are, two new and simplified Voki players!  These two players were designed to allow your Voki to shine center stage!  Click play to hear how happy it's made the Voki...

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Try out the new players and keep in mind there are still more to come!

We cannot wait to see what fantastic Voki you create - get talkin'!

Hannah and Team Voki

Things we're working on...

Hi folks!

We got a nice mention on Mashable today (they said we were "smooth"), which is exciting, but there's still lots of work to be done.

So here's what we're up to:

• We're creating a plain player.  We might have been a bit overzealous on some of our player designs and while we're definitely going to keep the wild and wacky ones coming, we also recognize that sometimes, people just want a character and a background and might not want it coming out of an unzipped fly.  (I know, right?  Surprised me, too!)
• Changing some of the "Play on load" functions in MySpace.  Lot's of things start playing as soon as MySpace pages load, so we thought it would be generally ok if that's what your Voki did, too...   and if its your Voki, that's probably what you want it to do.  However, when other people leave comments on your page with a Voki, you probably don't want all that chatter going on while you're trying to introduce your page.  So, we're going to set them all to "play on click" and then you can change it when you embed your own.
• Quieting down the site itself.  When you're creating and managing your own Voki, and you've been through the site for the millionth time, you probably don't need it telling you to "Get started on changing my look and adding your voice by just following our four easy steps."   We're not sure how many times that should load, but clearly after you've heard it a few times, you get it.

Any other suggestions?