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Author: Mark Phillips
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Subject: Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road
Their Talk product looks exactly like what I need....however, it is under
development now, so it is not available.....darn!

Thanks for the suggestion!

Mark

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Ariel Gold <> wrote:

> Haven't used it, but http://betwext.com/ is a local startup based out of
> gangplank....
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Donn <> wrote:
>
>> Just saw this website and thought of your request. It might be a simple
>> solution.
>> http://www.textmob.co/
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Joseph Sinclair <
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> There are other issues with GV too; the biggest being that a number
>>> cannot be assigned as a "mobile" number on more than one account; so if
>>> anyone in the group uses GV, they won't want to have their number
>>> disconnected from their GV just to use your setup. Also, you cannot have GV
>>> forward to another GV number.
>>>
>>> I think you've hit upon the closest solution without paying for a
>>> business-oriented spam/marketing bulk SMS system.
>>> Have GV forward to an email account; parse that out to pull a tag
>>> (containing 0ga0/0gb0 usually works and it's fast(ish) to type on A9
>>> keypads) and forward to a list of SMS email endpoints based on the tag. It
>>> might be good to also have unrecognized SMS forwarded to you so you can
>>> "reroute" when people goof up.
>>>
>>> There is an alternative if you don't mind locking an older phone to a
>>> computer back home for the duration of your trip (
>>> http://smslink.sourceforge.net/). That system allows you to have an sms
>>> received on the attached phone forwarded to a customized email output, and
>>> you could, relatively easily, add support for sending back out via sms.
>>> It's a bit rough and not the most reliable, but it seems to work.
>>>
>>> On 06/06/2011 05:02 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>> > Some feedback on the google voice idea....
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Donn
>> There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
>> -- Dave Barry
>>
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