Take a look at the stats and it will show the real story. Ex. the average SMS user in the US is 36 years old (..and getting older). Deal No Deal is doing alright, driving 1 million+ messages a night at $0.99 a pop. Better yet, its target demo is women, 36-54 yrs old. Same goes for American Idol….

The SMS adoption is booming in the US and we keep doubling our usage every year. We’ll keep seeing fantastic usage now that traditional media players in radio and TV are integrating it into their programming. Let’s leave the “slow adoption” stories once and for all.

broadstuff, the key to Shannon’s law is how you define information. If you and I agreed that the code 0101 would represent a specific 100 MB file you already had on your computer, it would seem that I can transmit 100 MB to you by only using a four bits. That is not the case, however. For the purpose of the law, a bit is just a bit, regardless of what it may mean to you. Under the law, useful information is that which is meaningful without any a priori knowledge. So, a QAM16 constellation can at most represent 4 bits of data and nothing more. Using a cryptographic method to make those 4 bits represent some larger set of data is complete irrelevant and outside of Shannon’s Law.

Thought sparked by a post from Kathy Sierra

To recap, Shannon’s law states that in a communication channel of limited capacity, useful information is transmitted at:

C = W log2(1 + S /N ),

where C is the channel capacity in bits per second, …

I do think that this is a service that can take off with teens, college students & overseas markets.

I do think that one of the driving forces in twitter’s uptick (outside of the buzz) is that they have made a range of inputs and outputs (such as web and IM) to allow people to participate in the stream.

Third parties are jumping in as well with products like twitterific. And for those people who want mobile but not SMS, 30 Boxes has put out twapper to allow wap browsing. We also be integrating our buddy updates (your online life stream) into twapper as well.