Oooh, a new promo film for Treasuremytext!
We’ve been lucky enough to work with ICDC (The International Centre for Digital Content) recently, and they’ve created a new promo movie for Treasuremytext. It’s inspired by messages sent to the SMS service. Some (but not all) are mine. The one about the food processor is one of mine - a message from my sister.
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
Treasuremytext will be at Telco 2.0 this Thursday (17th April). Telco 2.0 is running an executive brainstorm for Telco types! And Treasuremytext will be at the demo event at the conference.
The demo element is organised by the nice people at mashup* event. Telco 2.0 runs a great blog all about the Telecoms world here at: www.telco2.net/blog where you can read abut us and the other mobile 2.0 services who are also demoing at the event.
We’ll be looking forward to hooking up with the people from Phonefromhere who we know from several North West startup 2.0 related events and the other demoers. As well as meeting other demoers:
www.palringo.com
www.zyb.com
www.clickpass.com
www.vringo.com
www.voicesage.com
Probably the most requested feature is the ability to save the original date of your SMS. It’s impossible for us to do from the forwarded SMS so instead people have been diligently using sticky notes and even appending the original date and time to the messages saved. We’re wondering if this is people doing it themselves or if there are actually some phones out there that are doing this for them
So implementing a feature to allow people to change the date has been on the todo list for a while and it’s finally coming into existence. Here’s a sneak peak of whats coming. The UI comes from the JQuery datepicker extended with a timepicker with a few special modifications.
You can follow the inane minutia of whats going on here if your into this over at Twitter / Treasuremytext. We going to put status updates about ongoing tweaks, fixes, outage notifications, new features that kind of thing.
Every day we’re doing many of these types of little changes but not always something that warrants a big announcement on here or a Press Release and so Twitter fills that gap nicely.
This is an extension of what we started with using using Get Satisfaction. Being able to to communicate with our users quickly and hearing about their problems and questions has been incredibly useful and now guides most of our current efforts. With Twitter we hope to go a little further and to hope get to know some of users a little better through it.
We’re are a fresh Twitter virgin and only have just one follower right now (probably ourselves) so go add us and make us feel warm and fuzzy, we’ll add you right back.
It bothers me when sending someone an SMS when I’m expecting a reply when I don’t get one.
My natural predispostion is to imagine something has gone wrong with the SMS being delivered rather than just imagining that my message wasn’t the most important thing to someone at that particular moment in time. This problem is doubly excerbated when using the Web to send an SMS because it adds to your irrational thinkings, ‘Maybe the Website didn’t send it’. We know you think this from the number of people we see sending SMS to themselves the first time they try it from Treasuremytext - there’s something about a Website sending SMS that people don’t quite believe is true.
With this in mind the new TMT introduced support for SMS delivery reciepts, something that wasn’t there in the old site. This was broken after launch but as of yesterday was back again and it’s pretty cool.
Built into SMS technology is a notification system which immediatly tells the phone or gateway of the sender the status of the SMS sent which is updated again when an SMS has been delivered or it’s given up trying. It’s probably even supported on your phone, buried deep in a menu somewhere. The ability to check the delivery status of a message, I think the venerable Nokia 3310 was able to do this. Treasuremytext also does this, it’s not quite buried deep in a menu but it may be just as unnoticed unless you look for it.
So if you want to be sure someone is getting your SMS you can feel a bit more reassured if you send it from Treasuremytext. Aswell as delivery status notifications it’s also much easier to type on a keyboard, did we mention it comes from your own number so people can reply straight back, and it’s just 0.05 euro cents anywhere in the world, payable by PayPal, what a bargain, you really should check it out!
So if you’re using our outbound sms check out your Sent folder and take a look at the delivery status of any of your sent messages. In there each message is displayed with either a green, yellow or red light. Green = Your SMS has been delivered, Yellow = It’s enroute and it’s delayed either because of the network or more normally because the persons phone is off and finally Red = It can’t be delivered (normally because the number isn’t the full international number).
If you catch it quick enough between going from Yellow to Green after sending it you might even see it change in front of your eyes and it making a cute little sound to tell you it’s been delivered.
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