Jott, the words to text generator, has gone premium, and good for them. I often wonder how these Web2.0 services will ever stick around if they have no business plan, you can’t keep getting venture capital forever.
Anyho, I love the service and I will keep on using it but I’m opting for the free option. I did a test run today and besides the intro message telling me there are some changes at Jott nothing was different on the phone side. However with the free option I can no longer read my Jotts in my email. Instead an email is sent with a link back to jott.com where I could view my Jott. So I’m speculating that they will soon be showing ads on their site and this will force free users to return to the site to view said ads. If I want to see your Jotts in email I’ll just have to pay.
Also the free account is limited to only a few Jott links. Jott links link Jott with other services like Twitter or Remember the Milk. I use to use Jott with Sandy (iwantsandy.com) so I could send things I wanted Sandy to remind me of latter through my cell phone. Now I will have to pay to use that feature. Although the Jott link for Twitter is free.
In the end I don’t find myselft using Jott all that much. I mostly use it when I’m in the car listening to something I want to remember from the radio and I can’t write anything down. So maybe 6 times a month. The free version will work for me. I just hope they don’t start playing ads when I call in. I don’t mind seeing ads on their website but I don’t want to listen through an ad just to record a Jott.