Very cool free Mobile Services
Techcrunch alerts me to Bringo - a FREE time-saving service that allows users to skirt "phone trees", those annoying automated 800 # voice systems, and talk immediately with a LIVE person at airlines, credit card companies, carriers, banks and hotels, etc. Just click one of 170 service providers Bringo has automated, enter your phone #, and wait until Bringo connects the live attendant and calls your phone # to patch you in with that attendant. I tried it and it works!
Twitter is too time consuming for me... I can't consistently chronicle my days. Information Week magazine reviews eight more Twitter like services that revolve around messaging and chronicling to social networks, most conveniently via cell phones. For real estate professionals, I noted that most of these mobile services can be used to coordinate group activities. Here are a few examples of how to use one-to-many messaging services:
3jam allows SMS text messaging to groups - good for coordinating tour days and providing real time updates during offer days.
Jyngle and Pinger makes broadcasting voice messages and/or SMS to groups of cell phones
What's really amazing is that, in the final analysis, the eight services reviewed by IW overlap and compete with each other... the Web 2.0 landscape is looking like 1999 when Web 1.0 had multiple startups in categories like online pet stores and grocery delivery.
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Here's a final killer idea of a mobile service I'd like to see: mobile chat services linked by SMS to your website or blogsite. If you have a Meebo or Plugoo chat box, wouldn't be cool if that chatbox could be turned on via the cell phone (meebo currently requires javascript to logon) and allow users to chat with you via SMS? Instant communication marrying a website IM chat box and your phone...
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Website IM to SMS Text message and back again
That would be an awesome application
Loren
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Hey Pat,
Good post. I like your idea about the Meebo to SMS. That would be great...
I recently setup a relationship with my company (Western Title) and Bouncepad. They offer SMS services to Realtors. We created a co-branded website: http://www.bouncepad.com/western
It allows me to use the service as a marketing tool to get me in front of people, ultimately getting both of us new clients. A win-win...
I look forward to new SMS technology like this, and can't wait to see what comes next.
Cheers,
Jeff
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Have you ever tried using Mig33, eBuddy or Agile mobile? Basically IM using your cell phone.
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I tried meebo, I didn't like that it didn't interoperate with yahoo messenger which automatically pops to the top of my screen when I get a message, however if it pinged my cell phone that would be solve my problem of never being aware if someone sent me a message.
Over all though I don't think any of these services are worth paying for. There fun for us geeks to experiment with but they'll all eventually go way.
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I just posted on my Posh'd Blog about Plugoo Vs. Meebo. You mentioned how cool it would be if it could be used on a cell.....and Plugoo CAN! The future is here. lol. I use Plugoo on my homepage www.ekday.com, and it's linked to my cell. Visit the www.poshd.com/blog/blog.php for my review.
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Hey Shaun, you are right, I can link the plugoo IM with my Google Talk on my Treo... the only issue is I have to maintain my login on Google Talk each time I answer the phone!
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That's a Treo issues. I dealt with the same issues when I had a 650 a few years ago. Long gone are my treo days.
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I have got to agree with your twitter opinion. I just recently discovered it myself...neat idea. However I am the wife of one, the mother of four, and a Realtor to all...like I have the time
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