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SMS beginningsFebruary 25th, 2006 by Nick |
We plan to do lots of things with SMS/Text Messaging, such as reminders and adding events, but we started with a fun one: if you put an exclamation point after an invitation, we’ll send an SMS message to your invitee. For example, “meet at Joe’s Tacos 7pm +laura@30boxes.com!” will send an SMS message to Laura’s wireless device. The invitee willl also get cc’d via email so they remember to respond later if necessary.
If we don’t have wireless info for a user, they’ll get the email as usual. You can go to you Account Settings to add your wireless info.
30 Boxes!
February 25th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
I have to say, it is pretty sweet to be launching features on a Friday night! Spread the word :-)
February 26th, 2006 at 9:15 am
Does this work worldwide?
February 27th, 2006 at 11:04 am
An obvious “want list” feature would for the person to “reply” to the text message with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and have it update your entry with an accept/deny.
February 27th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
The sender email is too long for SMS, nobody@kamehameha.30boxes.com is way way too long for a 160 character including sender’s name format. Just trim it down to sms@30boxes.com or something.
February 28th, 2006 at 10:52 am
30boxes now officially is the shiznit! :) Awesome service guys … keep up the great work! :D
March 1st, 2006 at 10:22 am
30boxes adds SMS features
30boxes just keeps knocking them out of the park. I just saw that they launched a feature to notify invitees about an event via SMS.
March 2nd, 2006 at 6:27 pm
How can I set it up to send me an SMS reminder X minutes before the meeting start date?
love this app!
March 4th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Congrats on adding the SMS feature. But as of now its only for US users right. I was just wondering when would the feature be available for other countries particularly Singapore.
March 6th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
This is the coolest thing ever! Who needs a freakin’ PDA when you have 30 Boxes?
March 8th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
We’ll add any carrier you ask for, as long as we can send sms via email. Just tell us the carrier.
If you happen to know the domain name where we should send the messages, that would help (otherwise we can usually find it on the web). It’s usually something like your-phone-number@mobile.mycingular.com.
March 13th, 2006 at 9:14 am
A useful SMS feature would be a date inquiry. What do I have planned on March 23? Send 3/23 to 30boxes and I get an SMS back with my events for that day.
March 13th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
If you want to send sms to “Telus Mobility” phones, in Canada, you need to place areacode-and-phone-numer@msg.telus.com ! :D That’ll be awsome for me :D
March 17th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
why do you not sign up for a www.mpush.com account, get a premium sms service and then have people pay to have this service. i would pay for this srevice. you can then revenue share with mpush and help save up for that marketing budget that you need…
April 13th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Can you set reminders to be turned on for events that we are invited to? My wife will add an event to her calender, which I share and vice versa, she invites me, and I accept.
She sets a reminder SMS for the event, but I don’t receive the reminder notice. I want to.
August 5th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Hi… any chance of adding support for Virgin UK and Vodafone over here in the good old fashioned British Isles? You did say “ask for it”!
August 20th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
afaik this service is also available for vodafone germany. however vodafone charges about €0.23 for each sms. people have to activate this by sending a sms with ‘OPEN’ to 3400. the number for email to sms looks like this:
+49phonenumber@vodafone-sms.de
don’t know if you want to implement it, though.