Pinger.com – Party Line & Business Tool
By andy on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 9:04 pm
Some of you have already been harassed by me and my new Pinger account. I think it’s a pretty cool idea. It’s basically a voice mail tool. But, think of it as text messaging for Vmail.
Here is what Pinger does in a nutshell.
1. Pinger gives you a local number to store in your cell phone.
2. You dial, it picks up and says “who do you want to send a message to?”
3. You simply speak the name, and it uses voice recognition to search through all your contacts. You can speak as many names as you like.
4. You then here a beep, you speak your message.
5. You can either hang up, or keep sending messages to other people.
6. The person you are sending the message to receives an email that has you voice embedded in it. The recipient can either then reply back via email, or whatever.
7. If the recipient registers their cell phone too, they will recieve a voice-embedded text message.
Keep in mind, you’ve only hit 1 button to do all of this.
So imagine the scenarios…
Say you hit the lottery and didn’t want to take the time to call all your friends. But, you still wanted to get the good news out. With Pinger, you can create separate groups. So you call Pinger, tell it you want to send a message to your friends list, you speak your message, and VIOLA! You message has been sent to all of your buddies instantly.
Want to arrange a quick pick-up game of volleyball? Use Pinger to send out invites. Then sit back and wait for interested parties to call you back.
Or, do you want to send a message from the road, but don’t necessarily want to actually speak to the person? Use Pinger. You’ll get your message across without the hassle of a long conversation.
The service is free for now. And it’s currently in beta, so their are some querks. I haven’t got it to upload all my Outlook contacts yet. But, I sent an email to their customer report and I received a reply that they are currently working on this issue. But, I’m told the Hotmail/Gmail imports work fine.
It’s rumored that Pinger, once out of Beta, will charge users who use the service more than 10 times per month. This is too bad. I say they should keep it free by selling ads on the thousands of emails they will generate. Keep it free Pinger, keep it free!!!
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