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Scriblio Feature: Text This To Me

Text This To Me

Take note of the “New Feature: Text this to your cellphone” line above.

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.

The messages are handled by Clickatell via an API I added to bSuite, my do-everything plugin for WordPress (hmmm…what else can we SMS enable?).

Posted on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 12:51 pm in Libraries & Networked Information   |  RSS feed

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5 Responses to “Scriblio Feature: Text This To Me”

    
  1. Jason Griffey
    March 6, 2008 at 10:56 pm

    Casey: what sort of cost is associated with the SMS feature for the library via Clickatell?

  2. Edward Vielmetti
    March 10, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Nice.

    would it make sense to do an “email me this” as well? My mobile phone doesn’t have me pay for emails, but I pay by the each for SMS messages.

    I can imagine also a “twitter this to me” as well.

  3. Casey Bisson
    March 13, 2008 at 3:19 pm

    @Griffey: $.06 per message. It’s more expensive than email gateways, though more reliable and faster than.

    @Edward Vielmetti: Yes! I’m working on a unified notification framework that includes SMS, Twitter, email, and enough open hooks to integrate future services, all wrapped up with user-selectable options about what messages get delivered via what medium.

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