Thanks...

... to Jorn Barger for a link at Robot Wisdom.

Twitter observations

Following the twitter Public Timeline I observe:

• Most of the messages are posted from the web or from other client applications, not "from txt".
• There's very little txt talk, even on the posts from txt.

Are folks using predictive text because they're all on the bleeding edge? Are they really good at it? Is txtspk, and by extension, TTOTD, passe?

Twitter

I'm trying out Twitter as a way to get TTOTD on a cell phone.

Google the term + the definition

A good way to discover usage and find new terms is to search for a texting term and it's definition.

For example, today's post: ne1 & anyone

Trying ZapTXT

I tried ZapTXT a few days ago. Not so good for this application. In the SMS message I get the term (3 times!) but no definition:

FRM:W/E
SUBJ:W/E
MSG:01/23/ 08:51
W/E

In addition to SMS it will deliver to email and IM.

Trying Yahoo! Alerts for RSS to SMS

It must be hard to do RSS to SMS. I say this because I haven't yet found anyone who does it well.

I tried Pingie, but all I got from it were ads.

Now I'm trying Yahoo Alerts.

• It will send an RSS or Atom feed to both email and SMS.
• The email messages include promotional links for itself, but not other ads.
• They don't make it easy to sign up for arbitrary feeds - the only way I found to do it was to create an alert button for the fee -
• It's not that easy to sign up. They support only a small number of cell phone carriers: I had to guess between to AT&T/Cingular services, and then I had to pick a specific model of phone. Mine wasn't listed, so I had to guess at one.
• It doesn't include the post title in the SMS message, only the content:

y-
alerts@yahool.
com()Y! Alerts: Long
Time No See, Long
Time No Chat

It's not perfect but that's what I'm using, at least for now.

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