From Casey Bisson: text this to me:
Adam Brin of Tricollege Libraries explained that the “text this to me” feature he built to send location information about items in the library catalog as text messages to a user’s cell phone is being used as many as 60 times a day. That was the news I needed to decide to offer the feature in PSU’s Scriblio implementation.
You can see this in action at the Plymouth State University library.
If I were a patron (oh right, I am a patron) I'd suggest adding an "email this to me" too with the same short text. My cell phone gets email for free, but I have to pay for SMS. Hmmm...I'll bet that it's within scope of a Greasemonkey script to do this....hmm...or a "twitter this to me".
He's using Clickatell which prices out at $0.06 or so per message sent.
Nice hack! Useful too.
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I'm working on the Greasemonkey version of this for the AADL:
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/2008/08/text-me-the-loc.html
the PatREST API makes it easy to grab the data without doing any extra work to parse the page layout; next step is to put some scaffolding around it to have that data pulled by Greasemonkey at page load time.
Posted by: Edward Vielmetti | 18 August 2008 at 02:36 PM