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Jun30

Hello Hellotxt… Microblogging Management Master

Rather then debating the pros and cons of Twitter vs Jaiku try using Hellotxt and free yourself from updating every socialmicroblog-network out there. It incorporates all the major microblogging tools as well as LinkedIN, Brightkite and may other services.

Kudos to the developers of this service. I’m very impressed with the usability and features of hellotext.

Two things though.
1) What’s the revenue model? Please tell me there is one. I’m all for great services but without a revenue model these tools can’t last forever.

2) I couldn’t get the SMS setup to work with my iPhone. Perhaps it has something to do with the developers living in Italy vs the US.

Also, one thing which freaked me out was when I pasted a URL and submitted my update, the service shortened the URL and redirected it to hellotxt.com then out to the destination URL. I’m still not sure what I think about that feature yet.

posted in: opinion

This post was published on Monday, June 30, 2008 at 6:45 am

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Bruce

June 30, 2008 at 10:38 am

I’ll tell you what George, I briefly used this service a few months ago and disregarded it rather quickly because of cell texting and aggregation qualms.

My basic point of view regarding a service like this is that it’s a good idea for distributing your “status” to social networks but it offers no ability to see other people’s information. Hence the reason I think it will fail. I go to a social site to read what others are doing and comment on that, that’s the whole purpose. Twitter is great because of the community, Jaiku would be great for the same reason, ditto with facebook. If you pull people to a site just so they can update, but don’t include the community you’re doomed to fail in my book.

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George

June 30, 2008 at 5:48 pm

I can see that point. I do actually use it that way. I put in my status to cover Facebook, LinkedIN and Twitter. However, I leave Twitter open full time to read about the community and post Twitter specific messages. Then I use LinkedIN and Facebook every other day or so to catch up.

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Andrea

July 1, 2008 at 2:00 pm

@Bruce HelloTxt has added a new tools called Status Snap, you can now follow your friends’ status update on HelloTxt.

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Bruce

July 2, 2008 at 9:01 am

Good to know Andrea, I will definitely check out Hellotxt again to see if it meets up with my ideals. Always love to watch a product evolve.