Mobile services
The New York Times has a useful article on cool services you can access via cell phone. The one that caught my eye is Pinger, which allows you to record a voice message and have the person notified on their cell phone (or email account) that a message is waiting.
Because Pinger is much faster and more direct than voice mail, it’s great for sending quick voice notes when you’re driving or walking between meetings. It’s also ideal when you can’t risk being stuck in a 20-minute conversation with no polite way out.
Bonus features: You can broadcast a message to a whole group at once (”Baby girl, seven pounds — mom doing well!”), forward a message to a third party (any cellphone carrier), or retrieve and manage your messages on the Web.
The non-intrusiveness of texting together with the ease of voice. Nice!
UPDATE: For those of you who are unconvinced, another Pinger feature I didn’t mention is that once you’re signed up, you have a webmail-style interface to your Pinger voicemail: Inbox, Outbox, etc.
November 30th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
But isn’t that like calling someone up to tell them you sent them an e-mail?
btw, your CAPTCHA stuff is almost impossible to read.