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]]> By: greg http://gigaom.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129255 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:51:35 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129255 this service would be useful to make a mass announcement to clients from a business aspect. What other services are out there that does this?

]]> By: carl http://gigaom.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129254 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:24:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129254 i see where such start up propositions are heading, now …

if you’ve got vmail we’ll convert it to email and vmail you we’ve done so as an sms/txt – if you’ve got email we’ll convert it to vmail and email you that we’ve done so via sms/txt – if you’ve got a sms/txt message we’ll convert it to vmail and an email and sms/txt you we’ve done so – if you’ve got an IM/RSS we’ll convert it to all of the above and send you a fax …

in this always-connected/multi-function portable device world why do we need such irrelevant – archaic even – ‘services’?

what does and doesn not get funded never ceases to amaze me. this is one of the most absurd i have heard about in a long time. and the scale of funding involved makes it all the more ludicrous.

]]> By: EIR http://gigaom.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129253 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:35:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129253 To investors who are reading this:

I don’t need 8 millions. I can replicate the whole thing with top system performance and user experience in a day with 500k. if interested, drop me a line at bb4433@mail.com

]]> By: ben http://gigaom.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129252 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:53:13 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129252 Last October GotVoice received $3 million. It provides a cool voicemail service that E-Mails you your voicemail. It’s free and you can check it out at http://www.gotvoice.com.

]]> By: Kamahl http://gigaom.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129251 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:59:08 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129251 Hey Om >> How abt a thought for a fellow Silicon Valley Technologist and CNET senior editor James Kim who passed away in a terrible accident this week. I know you r not a news column — but have a heart …

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]]> By: Mademoiselle http://gigaom.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129250 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:05:24 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129250 Come on now…this service is supposed to make life easier? It really doesn’t seem like it. If anything it’s more complicated. And then to have 8 million invested in it???? THAT’S ABSOLUTELY INSANE!!! Although, I have to admit that it’s nice to know that money is out there for the NOT SO PRACTICAL IDEAS. Which gives me a lot hope for my own venture…

]]> By: Erik Schwartz http://gigaom.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129249 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:44:53 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129249 We do exactly this, as a side service. It’s a literally a weekend worth of hacking for someone who knows their way around Asterisk (or that’s how long it took us).

I was amused by the first 3 million, another 8 is just pathetic.

]]> By: Ted Avery http://gigaom.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129248 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:52:17 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129248 Seriously? $8 million? For something that’s already installed on most phones via caller ID and voicemail alerts? Bwahahahaha!

Hey, if anyone’s reading this I can create an app that does something amazing…

Pay attention…

Are you ready for this…

The app will send you an email every time someone sends you a text message to your phone so you will automatically know you have a text message on your cell phone when you are at your computer! Isn’t that great!? I think a $7 million first round is in order, don’t you? LOL

]]> By: Brian McConnell http://gigaom.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129247 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:27:50 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129247 My last company, Trekmail, founded in 2000, did the same thing. While we might have added a couple things today, there is not much we’d have done differently, except not get into this business in the first place.

Users loved the service, but nobody wanted to pay for it as a stand-alone product. The carriers hate these services because they cannibalize voice minutes that are worth at least $0.10-0.20 per message in airtime.

And that’s the rub.

]]> By: carl http://gigaom.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129246 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:56:07 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/06/pinger/#comment-129246 how much funding – thus far – for this service?!

sorry, the level of investment/scope for this service just does not add up for me …

bizarre.

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