SMS, Any1?

IT8217;S SMS that is now driving the world. Short Messaging Service SMS has become such a cool, hip and practical thing that on days when I don8217;t get an SMS or two, I feel socially challenged. I wonder if the world has abandoned me or if my demographic profile has become meaningless to marketers waiting to snare me. A few months ago, I was truly amazed by the currency that SMS had gained: I got a job offer from a highly respected multi-national by SMS absolutely no kidding, some of my friends can testify to this one. By return SMS, I said, 8216;:o but GR8, BCNU.8217; That was the last I heard from them. My guess is that I was speaking a different language.

SMS is an expanding medium with its own patois. And even if you don8217;t have a mobile phone, maybe you want to send an SMS to your friends who do. One simple way of doing this is to log on to http://sms.gt.com.ua. Enter the text you want to send 8212; 160 characters using GSM, 140 for Cyrillic and 70 for UCS2 8212; key in the phone number you want to send the message to and hit 8216;Send Message8217;. In a few minutes, your friend will receive the message.

The service, like many others on the Net, is free. For a more powerful way of sending, organising and archiving SMS, try http://web.icq.com

The author is Station Director, Radio City, 91 FM, Bangalore