Comments on: Yahoo! Launches Group Texting Site

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By: Praveen Rajan

Praveen Rajan — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:02:16 +0000

It’s gone away! Wonder whether they’re making a comeback in a new form.

Just visited the site, and got this message:

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Mixd is going away, for now.

The Mixd pilot study ended on February 25th, and the service will no longer be available. We’ve learned a lot from here, and you can expect to see more great mobile products from Yahoo! in the future.

Thanks for your participation in Mixd. For more mobile, check out Yahoo! Mobile.
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By: New Service Keeps You In The Loop

New Service Keeps You In The Loop — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:21:19 +0000

[...] I really like that you can choose how you want to be notified. It seems pretty unobtrusive. The reply-to-all feature of the group text services such as Zemble and Yahoo’s new Mixd is something I want zero to do with personally. [...]

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win — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:22:45 +0000

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By: DS

DS — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:59:23 +0000

I have a quick question that I just don’t understand about these services. Does 3Jam and Yahoo get charged for every message that is sent? I’ve worked at a mobile company in a past life; to send SMSs’, we would have to go through a gateway provider who would charge us $0.025 per SMS sent. If this is the case with 3Jam and Yahoo, then the charges would add up. Right? Am I missing something here? I know companies can go through SMTP gateways versus SMSC and not be charged, but I can’t tell if that is what 3Jam and Yahoo Mixd are doing.

Thanks to anyone who can answer.

By: Yahoo Social mobile experiment Mixd - NetResults

Yahoo Social mobile experiment Mixd - NetResults — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:19:42 +0000

[...] Yahoo! Launches Group Texting Site [...]

By: Dale Harvey

Dale Harvey — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:37:14 +0000

This seems to be a pretty big market that seems to have a lot of
potential, but it seems even the big players are having a hard time
really breaking into the market

there is a uk company offering a similiar service, http://vixo.com , that
is an ‘opt in’ group messaging, which would seem the most effective
to block spam

By: mobileforum

mobileforum — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:21:02 +0000

Yahoo is all mixd up…

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By: testblog » links for 2006-12-02

testblog » links for 2006-12-02 — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:17:26 +0000

[...] Techcrunch » Yahoo! Launches Group Texting Site (tags: sms mobile socialsoftware yahoo) [...]

By: New Data Recovery

New Data Recovery — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:33:24 +0000

Mobile markets are very different from country to country, with own rules, carriers and fee.

The real evolution will be when every single mobile phone will be connected in wi-fi or with flat gprs/umts so everyone will use mobile phone as a “always in the hand” small laptop.

By: GigaOM » Yahoo Gets Mixd

GigaOM » Yahoo Gets Mixd — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:07:42 +0000

[...] Yahoo emailed us and said they are testing a mobile messaging and social networking site aimed at the youth market called Mixd. One aspect of the site is the ability to start a group from a cell phone and use “reply to all” for SMS. Uh-oh 3JAM, that was your turf. More from here. [...]

By: tomo

tomo — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:19:56 +0000

with the pay per msg model of many wireless providers by joining participating in the sms social network/blog services you will see your # of txt msgs skyrocket while your phone bill does the same.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:16:36 +0000

Don’t forget Joopz! Does group text messaging….and more!
http://www.joopz.com

By: BuzzRun.com » Archive » Yahoo gets Mixd Up

BuzzRun.com » Archive » Yahoo gets Mixd Up — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:09:22 +0000

[...] TechCrunch diggs a lot deeper on this new service as well as the other three compeating services. [...]

By: Get mixd! « Meltin’ Posts

Get mixd! « Meltin’ Posts — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:02:28 +0000

[...] Yahoo! launches a group texting service, techcrunch reports. The site name is mixd. [...]

By: Jon Gales

Jon Gales — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:18:39 +0000

To the couple of above people who noted their phones can send messages to multiple parties… Duh. That’s not new. The new part is being able to reply to the group. There is no reply to all in SMS. You don’t even know if the message is unique to you or not (there is no way to see who else it was sent to). That’s basically what 3jam does, mixd throws in a few more twists.

It’s not super complicated, which is [if there is one] the selling point. Personally I dig that there are no hoops to jump through. I shouldn’t need to approve people to be able to text me. Anyone can already text me–it’s a phone number. There’s a niche target market here, youngish people who go out a lot and meet lots of new people.

By: chris johns

chris johns — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:57:49 +0000

It’s incredibly customer unfocused in that it doesn’t say what countries it works in - I tried in the UK and of course, it doesn’t work, though Flickr and Yahoo are very popular here.

A simple US only on the home page would suffice…

By: Minger

Minger — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:56:47 +0000

I couldn’t figure out how to send a message to a mixd. I keep getting messages back with numbered mixds. What am I supposed to do with them to get the message out?

3Jam has it figured out much better. 3Jam has had the benefit of more time to work the kinks out. However, it’s not rocket science and both are merely trying to adapt the IRC model to SMS. I say Yahoo should take 3Jam out for $1 mil. win/win. Once Yahoo gets the kinks out and puts the big user base behind it, nobody doing anything similar will be left standing anyway.

Microsoft SLAM is a winner but that’s like years out as we wait for cheaper Smartphone implementations.

By: mario64

mario64 — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:43:28 +0000

is this service exclusive to US residents or open to the world?

By: VentureBeat » Yahoo launches Mixd for group texting, for going out

VentureBeat » Yahoo launches Mixd for group texting, for going out — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:35:57 +0000

[...] See our post on 3Jam, where there are plenty of other services mentioned, including Radio Handi. Various forms of group texting have existed on carriers in other countries. Yahoo came up as an example of a service with “public” groups. This latest service gives you a way to create private groups to text with. (Techcrunch did a post on this earlier) [...]

By: Roy Tahsin

Roy Tahsin — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:34:47 +0000

Thats awesome, because I could never just select the friends I want to mass message from my phonebook, now it will only take me a few extra steps to do just about the same thing…thanks Yahoo!

By: People Finder

People Finder — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:03:50 +0000

Yet another diversion for Yahoo!

By: Wes

Wes — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:27:41 +0000

Some people could find the service useful but otherwise it could be better to use a mobile phone that sends multiple messages.