Category: Texting

Geo Fencing and Virtual Perimeters? Ladies, Let’s Shop!

Geo Fencing and Virtual Perimeters? Ladies, Let’s Shop!

Picture yourself walking through Manhattan when your phone beeps at you, you have just received a text message from one of your favorite stores alerting you that not only are they having a sale but you are within a couple of blocks of one of their locations. Cool? I think so. More and more retailers [...]

Now We Need to be Afraid to Use Geolocation Services????

Now We Need to be Afraid to Use Geolocation Services????

I went out on Saturday night, seriously…way out, in fact I’m still feeling it today. If you follow me on Twitter you might know this because I checked in on Foursquare repeatedly and sent the notification to Twitter. I do this for two reasons; one, to support local business by letting others know where I [...]

I Can Has Keebordz?

Save Valuable Keystrokes With One-Button LOLs

A keyboard for people too lazy to type LOL and THX.

Cc: How Social Media Killed Email

Cc: How Social Media Killed Email

Let’s face it, if email was a movie character, it would look like the zombies in Night of the Living Dead. Just like the spammers who messed it up for the rest of us. Fortunately for many of us, we are smarter. We figured out social media. We know Facebook, and Twitter, and RSS. We don’t need your stinkin’ email.

It’s Time To Kill AIM And Pay SMS

It’s Time To Kill AIM And Pay SMS

Both AIM and SMS, two technologies of the 1990′s, have run their course. In an age of Androids and iPhones, why should we only be able to have a chat program running in one place? Why should we have to pay to text?