Last Sunday we met up with Mike Lewis (who we met at Barcamp Berlin) in Amsterdam for a slice of apple pie and a chat about iPhone apps. Paul and Mike are going to be making something pretty neat that will hopefully fix our problem with forwarding, deleteing and archiving messages from the iPhone.
Now I got myself one here in the UK, I also have the problem that I can’t use my own application. We need to fix this!
And (note to self) - a discussion I had yesterday reminded me that perhaps people also want to save messages the ’send’ too……
We love the iPhone, and wandering around Berlin its clear that a lot of people do too; they seem to be everywhere even before they’re launched here.
But we have a problem: “What would you want to do with these messages?” you may ask….
Well here’s some suggestions:
- Open individual messages
- Delete individual messages (not the whole thread / conversation)
- Forward individual messages (to a friend)
- Forward individual messages (to Treasuremytext for example)
- Archive all your messages away from your phone
So we know a lot about motivation; why people want to do this stuff with SMS (which is a topic for my next post I think). But in terms of solving the treating SMS as IM problem on iPhone we may also have a plan for that too. More on that “plan” very soon!
Photo: Eric Rice on flickr.
Yesterday I presented a quick presentation on “Sexy SMS” as part of ‘Ignite‘ at Web2expo Berlin. We were excited enough at the thought of presenting to the expo crowd in a bar after the keynote by Tim O’Reilly, but a change of location meant that Ignite took place directly following Tim’s keynote in the main venue! Pretty neat!
I wanted to share what we had learnt about SMS - how and what people really send by SMS, why it is a sexy technology in terms of the nature of a lot of our ‘treasured texts’ but also in terms of its ever increasing popularity.
The Mobile Data Association announced yesterday that: “Over one billion text messages are sent every week in the UK, with September 2007 reaching an average of over 1.2 billion messages every week, the same number of messages sent during the whole of 1999.” From: 160 Characters.
Indeed 1.2 million messages were sent in the UK during the course of my 5 minute presentation. So my presentation of SMS messages sent to treasuremytext highlighted trends in what and how people send by SMS - I presented a range of messages, and I think the audience liked it; there were at least a few giggles in the audience.
The presentation is on slideshare here: http://www.slideshare.net/katielips/sexy-sms
We’re happy to announce the Treasuremytext2.0 Beta is now live at http://beta.treasuremytext.com
It’s still invite only for now - but mail me (katie) for an invite and you’ll be invited. Please check it out and add any comments via our Facebook Group.
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