The mesmerizing
live question feed from text118118.com shows questions from curious UK residents. The answers are always polite and reasonable complete and accurate. Sometimes you can see one person submitting the same question or a string of related questions.
posted by closetphilosopher
on Nov 24, 2008 -
70 comments
Use the badly named
Tglo to call any phone in the USA for free, and to SMS anyone in the world (maybe) for free.
posted by riotgrrl69
on Aug 6, 2006 -
18 comments
In the UK, people are sending
100 million SMS messages with their mobile phone every day, at prices that are far higher than you would expect. Now, some people have started an
online campaign to try and influence the mobile phone operators to drop their prices.
(more SMS statistics)
posted by SharQ
on Mar 14, 2006 -
56 comments
Playing Flickr is a public space installation by Mediamatic on the 11th floor of the PostCS building in Amsterdam. Diners in Restaurant 11 can use their mobile phones to submit a keyword of their choice, which will later appear on the surrounding screens with corresponding Flickr photographs tagged with that word or words.
posted by fandango_matt
on Sep 23, 2005 -
7 comments
Alert Retreival Cache Is a system of collecting, sorting and routing SMS messages for the purposes of alerts and relay communication. I heard about it on NPR today and of it's importance in the wake of the recent Tsunami. I thought it was a pretty neat idea and was especially pleased to hear how fellow geeks are working together to solve real world problems. More
here (World Changing) and
here (Audio).
posted by yossarian1
on Jan 4, 2005 -
0 comments
Post to a weblog via SMS. Just this weblog, unfortunately, not your own. I tried it with my Voicestream phone and it works. I'm surprised there aren't more wireless blogs out there that use SMS. (Or have I just been missing them?)
posted by brownpau
on May 24, 2002 -
15 comments
Erotigo's got the goods for your sexy mobile lifestyle. Now: Which of you's got a subscription? We want
details!
posted by Su
on Feb 25, 2002 -
10 comments
BotFighters: BotFighters is a brand new type of action game. The mission of the game is to track down and battle with other players, but in BotFighters, the real world is the game arena. You have to move yourself physically close enough to be able to hit.
The game concept is similar to "Gotcha!", or virtual paintball. Your mobile phone is used as a weapon and a radar device to track down opponents. When playing, you can at all times be attacked by other players, so be careful! You play with your mobile phone by sending SMS commands to number 6688. (from
play)
posted by andrew cooke
on Oct 19, 2001 -
8 comments
"U R STINKY"? From one of
those surveys: "14% of the seven to 16-year-olds interviewed had received a bullying, deliberately hurtful call or text message on their mobile phone." Beyond the observation that bullies are nothing if not creative, why the hell do these kids need the bloody things?
posted by holgate
on Apr 22, 2001 -
17 comments
