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January 12, 2007

Zingku : RSS to SMS and more

Filed under: blogs, rss, tools, mobile

Zingku is one of those SMS services where you can store and share photo’s from your phone to the web, set your web page to send you SMS reminders, gather a big crowd & their friends with txt messaging, IM, and email, all at once! (sounds like Swarmit), SMS poll with your friends, make mobile flyers where friends can get one by SMS’g a number, and RSS to SMS.

This last bit has got my interest, you can create what they call a mashup type of flyer by entering, for example, your blog feed, give a description about this flyer, and you will also see the flyer has a string of numbers (zingcode). Then people can SMS this number to fetch the latest entry or latest titles from your blog feed. eg text message libraryclips to: 12345 (this is only an example).

It would be good if they offered some sort of badge for your blog promoting the number to SMS, and to get some statistics.

Alternatively you can text the zingcode of your flyer to ZingkuPal to get it delivered to IM, so it is RSS to IM as well…similar to immedi.at

Other ways people can read your latest entry on their mobile phone is a mobile version of your blog feed at winkSITE, but people need a web enabled phone, even xFruits can generate a mobile feed for your blog, and lastly mobilize enables people to listen to your latest post on their phone by calling a number.

See more at my post RSS for mobiles.

[ADDED 15/01/07: 4info : RSS to SMS]

Pheeder : audio social network

Filed under: newsmaster

Call Pheeder and leave a message, seconds later all your friends or contacts will instantly receive a text message alerting them that you’ve left a new voice message on your pheed and they can call in to retrieve that message whenever they want. Then they can reply to your message, or forward the message on to their own pheed.

They can also check on the web as Pheeder is a social network, all people have a user space, and you can look up pheeds by tag.
It reminds me of Sponit or Loopnote, but using voice blogging instead of normal text blogging (and the fact that you don’t have to be on the web to post), actually it is probably most similar to Evoca (an audio social network where you can phone in your audio snippets). I suppose Twitter and Jaiku are similar, but posts from all users are not organised by tag. Like these services each user can see who is following them, and who they follow.

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