Beta List - Written by Chris Corriveau on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:59 - 0 Comments
BeamMe.info: Send stuff to your Mobile Phone
BeamMe.info allows you to place a “send to mobile” button on your website which will then text information from your website to the user’s mobile device. How many times have you been on a website and wanted to text some information from that site to your mobile for future use? Well I can’t honestly say I have wanted to do that, but is that because such a service never existed or because it doesn’t seem practical?
This simple service does have me thinking a bit differently about the idea and application. I mean.. say you have a site that has a bunch of vital little tidbits of information like a great restaurant. It could take items in a menu and add a little send-to-mobile button on the site. Then as your surfing the menu at work before you head home you could click your favorite dishes have them texted to your phone. Hmm.. ok, I guess that doesn’t work to well because why wouldn’t you call from work or wait till you got home?
How about if you were going to a club for some nightly music and you went to the website. You then clicked the send-to-mobile button, it sends you the club’s address. Now you are in your car and you could easily look at the text message for the address to make sure you got there on time. I guess it could work for you in that way. Or at least that is an example of the technology’s use from the BeamMe.info website.
On their website they offer the platform to publishers and also advertisers. Ah, ha! That is the best use of this technology! I do see this as the next advertising platform. With people carrying more mobile devices than computers these days you will definitely start to see more text message ads if you haven’t already succumbed to this form of advertising.
While I’m not entirely sure the use of the service besides the advertising feature. I do think it is a neat idea and something the text message crowd will like very much. Making anything that is complicated into an easy tool to use is always a good idea. If you have any good ideas of how to use BeamMe or are using it, please comment and let me know.
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