google-sms Google India has just introduced a new product called Google SMS Channels that lets you subscribe to news alerts, blog updates and other kinds of information like horoscopes, stock quotes or even cricket scores via SMS text messages.
http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-sms-subscribe-rss-via-sms/4726/ |
What will happen to Google's www.jaiku.com? |
Jaiku is predominantly a web/online play, similar to Twitter. Whereas SMS Channels is a result of the realization that reach on lowest-end mobile phones far outstrips web-enabled user-base in a country like India. Interesting to see Google launch a product first in India! This is an attempt to catch-up with SMS Gupshup, which has already grown to 7M users as of June this year...
http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/06/indias-sms-gupshup-has-3x-the-usage-of-twitter-and-no-downtime.html |
Even tagg.in, smsgupshup.com, mytoday.com offers the same for free. |
