Selective Amnesia

SMS GupShup

Webaroo is a startup, with (I don’t really know how) some association with IIT Bombay. One of their services is something called SMS GupShup – a kind of twitter meets blog meets facebook service for your phone. On SMS GupShup, you can subscribe to groups and blogs and get updates delivered to your as a short text message. To quote the people behind SMSGS:

...an SMS service called GupShup that allows people to easily communicate and connect with friends.

We started GupShup with the idea of letting people be in touch with each other – and the medium we chose was SMS. GupShup allows you to create a group of your own and start “talking” to them. People can also subscribe through SMS (akin to RSS feeds). All the posts that you make are kept public by default – though you can chose to make it private (in which case only you can invite users).

Considering many users in India may not have access to the internet all the while, we first implemented the whole idea by SMS. We are soon coming up with a web based interface to enable Gupshup.

So, after a bit of back-and-forth-ing on the issue and after a few dozen very persuasive mails from Kirti, I signed up for SMS GupShup. Now, in addition to receiving all my trash via the blog, RSS, my mails and stuff, you can also get it on your phone. All you need to do is go to SelectivAmnesia group on SMS GupShup, and follow the instructions there. Or, you could text “JOIN SelectivAmnesia” to 567673434 and have all my brilliant writing delivered to you.