Party line: a push for text-message donations
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NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans may have half the population it did before Hurricane Katrina, but the cash-strapped city still loves a party. To help pay for Mardi Gras, it's trying a new money source: text-messaged donations.
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Italian mobile phone users have donated more than 11 million euros (15 million dollars) for the victims of the Asian tsunamis through a text messaging arrangement that seemed to set a trend, it was reported.
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A new feature allows users the chance to make the news.
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Users will be able to receive news alerts and information via IM.
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With no fear of the confusion that can arise from text-message shorthand, a new search service is employing a novel tool to answer queries sent by cell phones: human beings.
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Craigslist displays undeniable grassroots power.
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If you thought predictive texting was impressive, you ain&#39;t seen nothing yet. A cellphone is on the way that can predict what you are about to do.
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Dan Farber: "It's not hard to imagine a contextual ad showing up every time you Twitter something. Twitter 'I am drinking beer with friends' and a Budweiser ad shows up. Now imagine the Twitter revolt." Oh yes there would be quite a revolt, a powerless one, unless there was an alternate service we could all switch to and then assuming we could get off our asses and actually switch. Yeah, we're good at screaming, but not too great at acting, here. I'm a bit of a Twit, myself, and I'd find it revolt-worthy if they tried to interrupt or punctuate discourse with product placements, but then Twitter's destiny is, imho, to be acquired by a phone company and sold as a feature that gives users a reason to use one brand of phone over another. Not as a way for advertisers to hitch their "messages" on our discourse. We've seen how well that has (not) worked with advertising on email. Not likely to work much better on Twits. Imagine if Nokia offered a cell phone with Twitter built-in, a checkbox for SMS users (default on?) -- "Do you want to send SMS messages to your buddy list?"  Don't you think the kids would go for that? (Maybe they can already do it, it's likely that I'm that cluelss.)
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Usually, the heightened competitiveness of an election contest can be detected by the increased visibility of the challenger candidate. But sometimes, it is an unusually big investment by the incumbent party thatÃ¢ÂÂs the giveaway.
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By Colin Stewart, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Jun. 19--Editor's note: Second of two columns on new uses of mobile  phones. Last week: an info-on-demand service for cell phones.
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Here's a novel way to be a philanthropist.
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Political wonks no longer need to hunch over their PCs to track the political leanings of different regions. A new service sends that data to cell phones and PDAs, so people can find out instantly if they're in a Democratic or Republican stronghold. By Daniel Terdiman.
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My boy Howard Dean talks  about the next generation of politics:  "The destination of the Democratic Party means making it a party that can communicate with its supporters and with all Americans. Politics is at its best when we create and inspire a sense of community. The tools that were pioneered in my campaign -- like blogs, and meetups, and streaming video -- are just a start. We must use all of the power and potential of technology as part of an aggressive outreach to meet and include voters, to work with the state parties, and to influence media coverage."  The Internet will fundamentally change every aspect of society.  It started in how we developed software.  Open Source is starting  ...
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The push is on to get Instant Messenger software on more and more mobile phones.
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Seeking like-minded political thought, or folks to argue with? Look no further.
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The capacity of people to give never ceases to amaze me. In Washington, Donnie Simpson, a local radio personality, recently helped raise funds for the American Red Cross's tsunami relief efforts. Listeners were encouraged to donate a minimum of $100 for a song request or shout-out.
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Who needs postcards? Use high-tech ways to stay in touch while you're \