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Google Voice now forwards SMS to email

by Jay Hathaway Sep 10th 2009

Being able to read and reply to incoming text messages makes Google Voice pretty convenient, but it just got even better. Now you can have SMS messages forwarded to your email account, and reply from your voice number via email, too. You can enable the feature in your Google Voice settings under Voicemail and SMS. Third-party services have been doing things like this for a while, but Google Voice does it at no charge, through a service you already use.

Getting SMS by email has plenty of advantages. The biggest of these is that you can turn off SMS to your phone, so you're not paying for it, and read messages by email instead. You don't have to keep separate Voice and Gmail windows open to read text messages and email in your browser anymore, either. Also, you can file your texts in the same inbox as your Google Voice voicemail, so all of your incoming phone-related messages have one unified location. Finally, if you're using a threaded email client (like Gmail, as Google helpfully points out), your sms conversations will be threaded, too.

[via Lifehacker]

Tags: email, forwarding, google voice, GoogleVoice, sms, text messaging, TextMessaging

Filed under: Web services, Social Software

rmbrME: share social network info via SMS

by Jay Hathaway May 7th 2008

Remember making new friends without the help of the Internet? Thanks to a new service called rmbrMe, you can convert those messy real life acquaintances into easily manageable social networking formats! rmbrMe lets you send a code via text message that will link people you just met to your profiles on Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, or whatever other networks you choose.

There is a bit of a missing link between having someone's phone number and having their URLs. Not everyone has an iPhone, so it's not always easy to send a hyperlink that won't have to be retyped into a browser later. RmbrMe is a clever concept, but it makes us wish for something even easier. Instead of going to a browser and typing in a five-digit code to get to a profile that aggregates all of your other profiles, it would be nice to see a service that generated friend requests straight from the text message.

For now, rmbrMe is a fairly elegant solution to the problem of helping people, well, remember you. The catch, and the reason we probably won't become frequent users of the service, is that it charges 49 cents a message, on top of whatever your carrier charges. Asking for an e-mail address might be a little bit dorkier, but it's also cheaper.

Tags: facebook, linkedin, mobile, myspace, phone, rmbrMe, sms, text messaging, texting, TextMessaging

Filed under: Internet, Video, Blogging, E-mail, web 2.0

Study finds girls eclipse boys in photo posting, other obvious web facts

by Danny Mendez Dec 20th 2007

Study finds girls eclipse boys in photo posting, other obvious web factsThe Pew Internet & American Life Project just posted its findings on teens and the web, and it seems to have uncovered much of what we already know about the internet. Here's a bullet point summary of the major findings. With each point, we'll try to name site/service who's users would stereotypically match.
  • AIM: 93% of American teens (ages 12-17) use the web. Many of them use the web to interact with others.
  • YouTube: 64% of online teens create online content, up from 57% in 2004.
  • Livejournal (bad poetry): 39% of online teens share their artistic creations online.
  • MySpace: 27% of online teens keep a personal web page.
  • LOLcats?: 26% of online teens "remix" content they find online.
  • WoW: 49% of online teens play games online.
  • America: Teens are more likely to own desktop computers over any other type of "gadget." This one was almost surprising.
  • Facebook: Social network communicators are more "intense" communicators.
  • Facebook: Girls eclipse boys in photo posting.
  • Nintendo Wii: 31% of teens spend time time with friends outside of school every day.
  • High School: 34% of teens spend time with friends outside of school several times a week
To be honest, a lot of this is pretty obvious. We shouldn't need a study to find out chat rooms suck, teens tend to own computers, and girls are more likely than guys to post photos online. Regardless, there's a lot more information where that came from, so if you'd like to learn more about the online habits of today's teenagers, make sure to check out the full study.

[via TechCrunch]

Tags: email, facebook, instant messaging, InstantMessaging, internet, myspace, social, social networking, SocialNetworking, study, survey, teen, teenager, text messaging, texting, TextMessaging, web

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