Odeo Launches twttr, hellodeo
Twttr is a unique service by Odeo that takes a stab at on-the-go socializing. You know how your messenger (whichever service you use) lets you have status/away messages? Well twttr not only lets you have real live status messages while you’re out, but you can find out what your friends are doing as well as share thoughts with your friends with this SMS-powered service. It sounds really similar to mobile instant messenger, but the power is in the way you word it.
Twttr is a new mobile service that helps groups of friends bounce random thoughts around with SMS. When we showed it to Jason Goldman (product manager of Blogger) he called it “present tense blogging.”
Source: Biz Stone
Twttr has married Short Code Messaging, SMS with a way to create social groups. By sending a text message to a short code (for TWTTR) you can send your location information, your mood information or whatever and share it with people who are on your social-mob! Best part - no installation necessary! …
Source: GigaOM
In addition to twttr, the Odeo folks have another fairly new side-project, hellodeo. Hellodeo is a very small web application letting anyone (no registration needed) create and distribute small video clips with almost no effort. Once a video is recorded through the iSight integrated on most new Macs for example, hellodeo saves the clip on their server and provides you the necessary code to post the video on your blog. However, the folks at Post Bubble seem to think that there is an ulterior objective of hellodeo - something in the way of Marketing 2.0.
“Twttr is a unique service…”
Google’s Dodgeball does the same thing
Twttr, while interesting, doesn’t really seem to have much of a practical application for me. Sure, it can be fun, but after the initial novelty wears off, why would I want to “bounce” that kind of stuff around?
Hellodeo has been done before, it’s just an attempt to break into the latest fad surrounding online amateur video.
/me looks at yet another “Flickr-esque” name and hurls.
It doesn’t seem to be working right. This is nice though:
SMS? It would be nice if SMS was free.
And twttr wins the award for worst logo ever. Wow. Just wow.
Yeah, I agree. I’m no fan of the twttr logo.. or name. I assume it stems from how Odeo has this infatuation with birds and twttr is an alteration on the sound a bird makes.
And I pay 10 cents per SMS. Chris pays 50 cents each, or so he told me.
Hey Paul… I am bias, but have a look at http://www.mocial.com
Even 10 cents an SMS is a lot for something Odeo wants you to use everyday. Sure, we could blame the telcoms for making them so expensive (or charging at all), but I still say it’s dumb for them to try to build a business model on top of something that is already too expensive. Oh well.
LOL. And now countless people use this service, which is now called twitter. haha.