MetaFilter posts tagged with textmessage

FYI, 13yo skool grl is nu US txt mssg chmpN

impolitic — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:46:01 -0800

A 13 year old school girl is the new us text message champion. See how she crushed the competition btw her tiny thumbs.

Earthquake Alert by SMS

SuperNova — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:15:43 -0800

You may have heard of Twitter, a social networking utility to let your friends know online or by SMS what you're doing right now. Well, now even fault lines can do it, thanks to some enterprising developers. Friend one of these guys to get San Francisco quake info by text message from the USGS.

"We understand that your data is private and sensitive."

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:46:46 -0800

'Thanks to FlexiSpy, I finally figured out my wife was cheating on me with my brother,' he claims. 'My life is so much better.'

The Globe Tglo

riotgrrl69 — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:43:45 -0800

Use the badly named Tglo to call any phone in the USA for free, and to SMS anyone in the world (maybe) for free.

UK campaign for cheaper SMS messages

SharQ — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:21:28 -0800

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)

It's like PayPal but for SMS

pwb503 — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:48:32 -0800

Remember when PayPal was just for beaming money from one Palm to another? NYTimes covers Y Combinator, and points out one of their projects, TextPayMe.com, which is trying to repeat PayPal's feat but on your cell phone with text messages. For those interested: Wired coverage from last week.

Made a terrible mistake in Las Vegas

kodas — Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:52:52 -0800

Made a terrible mistake in Las Vegas? Just say "talaq, talaq, talaq"

Fired by text message

feelinglistless — Fri, 30 May 2003 12:54:49 -0800

Fired by text message by the ironically titled Accident Group. Staff advised that they wouldn't be paid either. I'm suspecting that the legalities of this are pretty shaky.

The Almighty $

crasspastor — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 00:59:21 -0800

Christians become aquainted with the Almighty. "When the Wheat Ridge man got laid off from his computer-programming job in June, his friends and family asked what they could do to help. He asked them to pray for him and offered a daily reminder: an automated text message on cellphones and pagers. Now, Wostenberg, a devout Catholic, is offering that same technology to anyone who wants a psalm sent to him each day at 3 p.m. He's selling the service online at PsalmWeaver.com He charges $19.95 a year, plus a $4 setup fee."

louie — Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:42:31 -0800

Singapore bans divorce via SMS. I think what weirds me out most about this is that apparently it's still legal in Dubai... and not infrequent.

walrus — Fri, 14 Dec 2001 01:13:01 -0800

Queen to issue spam. Since 1932 the UK monarchy has broadcast a christmas message (on TV since 1957). From next year, it may also be sent in "shortened form", by SMS. Meanwhile SMS usage has increased more than double in the last year, and British companies are considering banning unsolicited text messages to mobile phones. I've never received an SMS spam, but I'm not looking forward to it.