Comments on: Tex2Me Offers Free Messaging

By: Andy Coley

Andy Coley — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:19:22 +0000

The Tex2Me service is really good – they have done some great upgrades recently and its a great service.

Andy

By: Klas Brumann

Klas Brumann — Thu, 11 May 2006 19:16:32 +0000

While hotxt compares itself to Skype, it was app2app how Skype started. Therefore Tex2Me is more like Skype, though I am sure hotxt will come up with further developments. Some features hotxt needs are along the lines of mabber.com and probably SMS to blog and similar.
From Cambridge, home of hotxt,
Klaas Brumann
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By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:50:43 +0000

Interesting to read Helen’s comments about Yomego and the difficulty in the handsets.

It seems though as they have managed to take the text and real time animation succesfully into the media environment.

Very impressed with http://www.ess.yomego.com that creates football alerts through Eat Sleep Sport. The character Big Frank has also been taken up by Ladbrokes.

I also read yesterday that DA Group (the company behind Yomego) have been signed by Channel Five to create a Virtual Geoff Boycott who will provide Desk top alerts for the Cricket with real feeds from his voice. Clever stuff. . . and keeps things going until the mobile technolgy is up to speed

By: Polanski

Polanski — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:37:02 +0000

Russ,
yes, true! Web to mobile is not new – but the fact that they are using shortcodes and incentives seam to break the mold, and as sending from web actually earns you creadit – its a new angle on things that excited me.

By: Nico

Nico — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:46:05 +0000

hmm, some blatant self-promotion: check out http://mabber.com

we think SMS is outdated, mobile IM is the future.

By: Richard Hill

Richard Hill — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:22:12 +0000

I left a similar note on another post. Take a look at http://www.simtext.com which is similar to the above but also have an online interface. Sits between tex2 and hotxt in terms of pricing.

By: Russell Buckley

Russell Buckley — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:20:09 +0000

Polanski – computer-mobile free texting is not really a new phenomenon. It’s been around for about 6 years from memory, with offerings from big and small players.

The problem is that most of them can’t leverage the service into a business model as all it does is burn cash.

Russell

By: Helen Keegan

Helen Keegan — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:20:25 +0000

and of course, there’s Juize too – http://www.juize.co.uk. Although I tried to download it a couple of days ago and the website wouldn’t work properly.

Yomego tried this as well a year or two ago and the customer didn’t catch on – their proposition was about long texts plus personalised animation (amongst other things) and I suspect it was just too early for that to appeal, too complex a proposition and there was limited compatibility with handsets at the time.

By: Polanski

Polanski — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:34:11 +0000

What about http://www.mogotxt.com – whom offer free texting to among friends from web? Comments?