Another week, another batch of people writing about Plusnet across the web and in print. Aaaw, thanks guys!
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Up until 14th August 2008, Twitter provided a free SMS alerts service for its users in the UK. From inside Twitter, you could register your mobile phone, and decide which of your friends you wanted to follow via SMS. The cost of providing this service for free was one that Twitter couldn’t continue to carry, and the service was withdrawn as a result.
Gradwell, who currently provide the Plusnet VoIP solution, have proved their worth once again as an innovation super-power by harnessing existing technologies to fill the void left by Twitter.
Gradwell are very pleased to announce the launch of Twittex – a simple prepay service that delivers Twitter updates from your friends to your mobile phone via SMS. twittex is currently available on all UK networks. SMS messages are charged at 5p each, excluding VAT.
Stuart Herbert (Gradwell Technical Manager) said:
“In the testing we’ve done of our competitors, one of the main ways we are different is in how timely our service delivers updates. The more active your Twitter friends are, the more actively we check your account, and we aim to check your account at least every five minutes.
We’ve also given our customers the ability to set an optional daily limit on the amount of SMS messages we deliver. This way, our customers can manage their costs and avoid nasty surprises!”
Gradwell use aql.com to deliver their SMS messages worldwide, a service which they think is set to expand on the back of their Twittex success. Word on the street says Gradwell also plan to deploy Twittex through a Facebook app and PhoneWall. Next on the agenda is the ability to decide which times of day you want to receive text messages.
To get started, create an account at twittex.com, add your mobile phone number and your twitter accounts, and some credit (£1, £5, £10 or £20), and you’re all set.
Sign up today and you can get your first 20 messages for free!
Want to know what else Gradwell are up to? Click here
How do you follow yesterday’s very special end of day? With a normal one of course! More…
About a year and a half ago I read about Microsoft’s collaborative project with the University of Washington called Photosynth. I was, to say the least, excited! Ok, I’m easily excited but I did think this was pretty cool.
I wouldn’t be doing it justice if I just said “it’s a service that lets you stitch together photos and pan and zoom them”, although it wouldn’t be far off. It is, however, much more powerful than that. More…
Congratulations to Jamaica’s Usain Bolt who has just added the 200m Olympic gold to his collection with a new world record time of 19.3s.
Plusnet customers “tuned in” via the BBC’s iPlayer to see the victory; we saw an increase in traffic from iPlayer of around 250Mbps just before the start of the race going from just under 700Mbps to 934Mbps falling just short of yesterday’s high of 954Mbps of iPlayer traffic. More…
It was a surprise to me today to learn that Microsoft have now actually shipped a couple of their much flaunted Surface products to customers.
The story of unpacking and first use gets picked up on the Amnesia Blog.
The question will be how long it takes for these to become common in public spaces. If you’re a waiter or waitress, maybe you will be feeling a little concerned right now?
Ian
Although this part of the EOD post is traditionally used to colour the days EOD, instead I’m going to use it to tell you how excited I am about the EOD tomorrow. Want to know what I’m going on about? Check the Community site tomorrow to find out!
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It’s probably no surprise to anyone that people are watching the Olympics online. Decent quality streams from a legitimate and easy to use source, iPlayer from the BBC for UK viewers is a convenient choice, particularly when you aren’t near a television.
NBC Universal in the USA reports that 4.2 million watched the opening ceremony via their website, increasing to 7.8 million by Monday. It wouldn’t surprise me if even more were watching online by the start of the second week. More…
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