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Reading Links for August 17th

August 17, 2011

These are my del.icio.us links for September 15th: How are Economy was Overrun by Monsters and What to do about it. – This was worth reading just for the description. <br /> <br /> “If we’re disgusted by ex-defense contractors erecting gazillion dollar playhouses (complete with zip line, rock wall, firefighers’ pole, and slide!), we’ve [...]

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Reading Links for February 22nd

February 23, 2010

Daily update on del.icio.us links with my notes. I also just tweet links @stuarthenshall (714) 916-3519 is a spammer who SMS’d me. How do I put a stop to it? How does one sort out with ATT? – Do I forward the the SMS to ATT? Others will be paying money, for me it is [...]

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America Needs a New Approach to SMS – Learning from India

February 5, 2009

Indian rates for SMS are now at 8 paise. 100 paise to the Rupee. about 47 rupees to the dollar. So $.003 per SMS locally in India today. Guess what, use is exploding! That doesn’t compare very well with the US where we are paying a posted rate of 20 cents per SMS. Now I [...]

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What Everyone in India seems to know about the iPhone and why they aren’t excited by it

February 4, 2009

While visiting India over the last two weeks I had my usual set of shocks and observations. Sometimes they get blogged and they also fit with other contextual things I’m seeing. What surprised me about these observations and comments I heard this time, was who spoke them. From kids to adults they “know” about the [...]

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Jaxtr FreeConnect – Uses Text Signaling Too

January 19, 2009

I’ve been trialing a new program “FreeConnect” launched by Jaxtr in December. I think it is a big hit with the Indian market and means you can call your friends almost anywhere just by dialing a local number. The other party gets an SMS and then both parties are connected for FREE (less the local [...]

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Links / Routing / Control

October 9, 2008

Yesterday I wrote a post “Communications is Fragmenting” with the idea of inserting some controversy for discussion. I received a great answer from long time friend and mentor Ed Prentice of Televoce. Ed’s voice is one of reason and reflection. Three elements that are discussed are important to me. Grand Central and One Number/Identity – [...]

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I am not a number! I am @stuarthenshall a Twittername

August 14, 2008

I sympathize with Stephanie Booth today. She’s one of the lucky one’s that’s learned that Twitter on the mobile via SMS is ‘instantaneous”, “current” and keeps you abreast in real-time. Here’s a pictorial example of how I see it on my iPhone. Note it looks like a stream just like a Twitter page. Note I’ve [...]

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GupShup – Chatter or Twitter for the Masses?

May 21, 2008

Why aren’t mobile operators offering Twitter like services? Probably because they haven’t seen GupShup or it isn’t on their radar yet. Om Malik picked up on it earlier, then he’s connected to the investor. GupShup has over 4 million subscribers. So I’d actually expect it to be bigger than Twitter before too long. GupShup means [...]

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Voice to Text Future – In Your Hand

April 1, 2008

I’ve been trying out a new messaging service of a type I’ve been skeptical of in the past. I’m talking Voice to Text. Now I’m going to remain skeptical for different reasons. Andy pointed me to Mobivox’s new “Dictate Message” service or is that a command? Anyways you call Mobivox and when asked who you [...]

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Kadoink – Am I just too old?

March 5, 2008

Kadoink? What is it? I was lucky to be part of a panel at Texting4Health last week and meet Ronna Tanenbaum one of the founders, so I was interest in trying it out. Basically you can send music and voice messages or blasts via SMS. Sort of SMS on Steriods if you learn the language. [...]

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