Comments on: TxtDrop offers SMS widget for MySpace

By: steve campbel

steve campbel — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:47:38 +0000

i use http://www.create-ringtone.com to create and send FREE custom ringtones, wallpaper, mp3 and video files to cell phones around the world

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:14:28 +0000

Can anyone recommend me?
I need an free sms service for my homepage.
I am seeking one with the option to change the design(for a bit).
Thanks a million!

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By: txtDrop.com

txtDrop.com — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:19:48 +0000

Dan - your site and others that use that same code bought off sitepoint all display the persons cell phone number in the source code though. With txtDrop at least your cell phone number is not available to ANYONE.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:03:52 +0000

Wow–this is old. I bought this same script for $40 on sitepoint (and that included the domain name). I would have sent you my URL if I knew it would make news on TechCrunch! Here it is without any changes: http://www.outsms.com Could look just like txtdrop.com with a little touch up.

By: txtDrop.com

txtDrop.com — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:36:53 +0000

http://www.txtdrop.com/privacy.php

Highlights for everyone:

TxtDrop.com will not release any personal contact information to advertisers or any other 3rd party.

TxtDrop.com will NOT send unsolicited text messages or make phone calls to any acquired cell phone numbers. At no time will cell phone numbers be sold, traded, exchanged, or given to any other 3rd party.

TxtDrop.com gathers only what information is necessary for completion of text messages. Information is used solely for transmitting text messages, and will not be sold or shared with any 3rd parties. In addition, the site may gather broad statistical information such as (but not limited to) number of website visits, page views, ad clicks, number of messages sent, and popularity of cell phone providers. This information is used to help us better understand how users use our site.

By: BIG Mobile research » TxtDrop offers SMS widget for MySpace

BIG Mobile research » TxtDrop offers SMS widget for MySpace — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:41:01 +0000

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By: BIG Mobile research » TxtDrop offers SMS widget for MySpace

BIG Mobile research » TxtDrop offers SMS widget for MySpace — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:41:01 +0000

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By: lady

lady — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:17:06 +0000

Please http://www.411sms.com has been doing this for over a year now and they have more features too!

By: New Media Sense » Short Stuff for July 6th

New Media Sense » Short Stuff for July 6th — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:29:22 +0000

[...] SMS widget for MySpace - thoughts AND concerns (TechCrunch) [...]

By: Noah Winecoff

Noah Winecoff — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:15:57 +0000

I’d use it just so I wouldn’t have to go to each carrier’s website to send a text message. I don’t get charged to receive msg’s, just to send. If they are doing things the way I think they are I wonder if txtdrop.com would be blocked by these carriers once they see a lot of traffic coming from it. *shrugs* who knows.

By: jr

jr — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:09:05 +0000

put your name in the message body

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:15:03 +0000

I just tested this on a fake .html page and *ofcourse* it doesn’t tell you who its from except txtdrop.com. So how is this useful if the sender doesn’t tell you who they are?

By: Comparing Code » TxtDrop offers widget for MySpace

Comparing Code » TxtDrop offers widget for MySpace — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:36:21 +0000

[...] TechCrunch » Blog Archive » TxtDrop offers SMS widget for MySpace Web based text messaging company txtDrop announced today a new widget for MySpace profiles (and other web pages of course) that creates a button to deliver an SMS message to the page owner’s phone. This means that message senders don’t have to pay for each text. The service is available in the US and Canada only. [...]

By: Erik Kalviainen

Erik Kalviainen — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:51:18 +0000

Hey! I just had an idea. Shockr.com. A Myspace/blog widget where you can get feedback from your friends/community via an attached USB electric-shocking device.

By: /pd

/pd — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:05:40 +0000

oh — very good question Don !!

FWIW, Google just pulled their SMS Mobliel search folio in the UK.. :)-

go figure…

By: Guk

Guk — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:55:19 +0000

All I see from these services is that it is being abused and privacy being violated.

By: Clarence Wooten

Clarence Wooten — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:49:18 +0000

Interesting… especially the statement… “Meena Trott from SixApart says that the future of social media online lies in very small groups”. I agree 100%… that’s what CollectiveX is all about — Group-centric social networking.

http://www.collectivex.com

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:26:07 +0000

I live in the UK so I can’t use this service on my own mobile, so I put in a friends number and it created the widget code for… surely this is wrong?

I’m sure this could be abused in so many ways.

I suggest that they need to generate a random key which is sent to the mobile the widget is being created for, that can then be checked in the widget creation form.

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:22:26 +0000

Why exactly did this make it to TechCrunch?

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:46:00 +0000

“Yes, you can email a person’s sms number, but it’s much easier to do a one click free message through a person’s own profile page.”

Mike, I believe the argument of some might be this widget takes about 1 day to code, and therefore isn’t much to get excited about (that, and a few other reasons).

By: Aner Ravon

Aner Ravon — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:48:19 +0000

The ingredients of a good desktop SMS service must include, IMO:

1. 2 way conversations
2. Absolute privacy and spam protection
3. Smart routing between web and mobile
4. Full reliability
5. Operator and IP interoperability.

See more thoughts at http://www.degardener.com

By: De Gardener

De Gardener — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:44:24 +0000

[...] Marshal Kirkpatrick of TechCrunch writes about the new feature from txtDrop - a web based, Myspace plugin, which offers sending SMS to a MySpace user free of charge. Oliver Starr adds more depth in MobileCrunch. There seems to be an inflation of Web based SMS services flying around. Unfortunately I find most of these services very mediocre. Some of these services may score well within a niche, but I personally think WebSMS services must have the following “traits” in order to hit the minimum benchmark required for massive breakthrough: [...]

By: Jonathan Grubb

Jonathan Grubb — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:31:28 +0000

This seems like a great service concept, though from what I’m reading here this isn’t the company to do it. Myspace users aren’t known for caring about privacy or stability though, so I may be wrong.

The carriers generally have safeguards in place to keep services like this from working on a large scale. Email-to-sms is a money-losing service for mobile carriers since most don’t charge for message reciept. They do it hoping that some percentage of mobile users will reply with a mobile-originated message, which generates revenue for the carrier and is sometimes shared with a thrid party like TxtDrop. The problem here is that there’s nowhere to reply to, thus no chance for revenue.

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:26:53 +0000

Hey Marshall.

I’m going to put a TxtDrop widget with your cellphone on Tailrank

Ha. Just joking of course. I’m really going to use Arringtons!

Anyway… this reminds me of the time where I found out that Sprint SMS URLs were GETs and I pasted a link on my blog. 15 minutes later all the bots come crawling and my phone had about 30 txt messages.

Fun! At first I thought people were playing games with me.

GET is fun!!!