TxtMob for the library…
August 13th, 2004SNT Report links to this Wired article on Txtmob:
“[T]he new service from the Institute for Applied Autonomy was unveiled last month at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. There, TxtMob allowed more than 260 subscribers to automatically blast text messages to the mobile phones of every other subscriber.”
I’m ignoring all of the convention talk (this is not the forum for such discussion), but want to focus more on the technology used by TxtMob. Librarians who work in collaboration with one another can use TxtMob to move documents and ideas back and forth within the group. They don’t even have to be at the same physical library to communicate instantly. I musty admit,I’m a bit behind the times when it comes to using PDAs and other mobile devices to communicate via text-messaging, but I definitely see their potential, especially if one message can be sent instantly to more than 200 people at once. Very powerful stuff.