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I tried adding my mobile number with country code (Australia), but never received confirmation.
EDIT: Gah, I read your reply, "In terms of text messaging it's US only (right now), but if you're willing to use it from IM, email, or the mobile web site then you could definitely create shortcuts for sites anywhere in the world." You should add that to your FAQ.
Awesome idea. Two criticisms, however: You should get a privacy policy up asap. You're collecting and storing a lot of private information, so you should have a policy that dictates your stance. Also, not having SMS support yet is a deal-breaker. I realize you're working on this but without this I can't use your system. As someone that doesn't have a smart phone I was excited to try your service but when I realize it…
Hey Jasber, we do have SMS support and Email, IM, etc. Just go to your account page and add a Mobile Phone identity.
What countries does this support? No mention in the FAQ. I tried adding my mobile number with country code (Australia), but never received confirmation. EDIT: Gah, I read your reply, "In terms of text messaging it's US only (right now), but if you're willing to use it from IM, email, or the mobile web site then you could definitely create shortcuts for sites anywhere in the world." You should add that to your FAQ.
"55 bus red line" or "55 bus woodlawn"
to your shortcode,
and get the times of the next busses going east/west
Add voice capabilities to allow us to call. Then using speech to text, you can process that as well. On the home page rotate different texts within the cellphone screens.
Have a look at http://jott.com/ for speech to text.
I've been working on something very similar. As an excuse to pick up python, I've been working a more robust SMS interface with google calendar than the one provide as well as an interface with Yelp. I love using SMS on my phone (its my predominant form of communication) and I like what you guys have made. Looking forward to giving it a spin.
One extremely useful service that comes to mind is being able to track a flight on any given airline
http://www.google.com/mobile/default/sms.html
http://4info.net/howto/search.jsp
Of course they do a lot more, but flight tracking and sports scores are two of my most common uses.
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and yeah, the giving up of passwords to other services is a little tricky. i'm not opposed to it, but you have to prove yourself to be completely trustworthy and honorable. i mean, paypal?! also, the 5 number password consisting entirely of numbers that was given to me when i signed on.... so that's 10*5 = 100,000 passwords to check to break into someone's account? it seems a little low. why not a 20-character passwo…
We'll beef it up!
this way you only punish the guilty (forgetful), not everyone and their brother.
I have an iPhone so doing some of these things isn't has hard as it might be on a regular phone, but i've always loved intelligent services like this that let you take a simple thing like text messaging and turn it into a very powerful tool. Even with my iPhone, text messaging is a real fast way to send data. I'll be playing around with it :)