Friday, September 28th, 2007 |
For all you Google followers who felt Google’s age of acquisition was over, you should be bracing yourself for more news. From Youtube to DoubleClick to Dogbeball , Google’s next stop is a Mobile Social Network - Zingku.
So that means mobile and sms fanatics who have been enjoying free sms on google’s sms platform should be looking at getting more from google.
About Zingku
Our service is designed from the mobile phone, outward, allowing you to create and exchange things of interest ranging from invitations to “mobile flyers” with friends in a trusted manner. On the mobile phone, Zingku uses standard text messaging and picture messaging features that come with every phone. On the web, our service uses your standard web browser and instant messenger. There is nothing to install.
With Zingku, things you wish to promote or share, can easily be created and fetched via mobile, instant messenger, and web browser. Our service integrates your mobile phone with a personalized web site so that you can easily move (zing) things back and forth between the web and and your mobile as well as powerfully connect with friends and optionally their friends.
Note: The service is limited to the US and, until Zingku migrates to Google’s servers, you can’t create a new account.
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Monday, September 17th, 2007 |
Text messaging, or texting as it’s commonly known, became part of our daily lives because of mobile phone usage. It has even taken a bigger dimension and it is now one of the hottest marketing tools in the business industry.
Text message marketing has over the past few years proven to be a very efficient, effective, direct and personal marketing tool for selling products.
The marketing efficiency of SMS Messages has gone up so high that, even some media houses like CNN, BBC, CBS and many others have resorted to using SMS Mobile Alerts to drive traffic to their websites.
Having deployed high grade web and software applications with SMS in my carrier as a web developer, these articles will share some experiences and tips on developing SMS web applications, SMS software applications and also features on subscribing to any of the major Bulk SMS Providers.
The articles will also elaborate on easier ways and skills on deploying solutions for sending normal text messages either from a PC or a website using an SMS gateway.
There will be sections for marketing professionals who are looking at advertising their products using SMS.
Tips will also be given to ordinary web users who have the craze for looking for websites on the internet where they can send free text messages.
There will also be reviews on most of the Bulk SMS Providers to compare give the pros and cons of using their services.
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