Don't Just Call Your Friends, Spam Them!
Mobile, instant, always-on access to everyone you know is the new obnoxious forefront in communications technology. A new start-up calling itself Trumpia, has decided to take the obsession with constant communication to its absurd illogical extreme.
Sign up with Trumpia, then betray your own sense of decency by inputting all of your friends' contact info ... and we mean all of it. Input, e-mail, cell phone and instant messenger information. Then you can "blast" all of your friends at once, hitting them on every communication device possible short of a ham radio.
That way, no one can possibly claim that they didn't get your message -- unless they were lost for a few days in the Himalayas. In fact, the only way your (soon-to-be former) friends can stop you from "blasting" them, is to sign up for the service themselves and block you.
If you think the whole thing sounds kind of shady and caustic, you're not alone.
From TechCrunch
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sassy @ Sep 25th 2007 10:55PM
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uclanamja @ Sep 27th 2007 4:28AM
I think Michael Arrington completely missed the point. He just pointed out the obvious problem I'm sure they are going to address. He also got a lot of the facts wrong including the fact that you can remove your self from any contact list without having to sign up.
And the idea is to bring together your hotmail address book, phonebook on your cell phone and buddy list on your IM and being able to use any of them from any one you choose.
Of course there's a long way to go to make this all work smoothly but once there, it'll be a very powerful tool. LIke I don't have to be online to reach my AIM friends or vice versa and if I'm at work and can only use email, then no prob too I can talk to anyone.
They say they will soon be finished with the ability to cascade which means that you only get mobile text if you aren't online as well as some other features to give you more control.
Anyways they are just starting out and I think like with many other great ideas, we have to look out a little further. The PC was stupid when it first started with punch holes and a few LED lights?
Who knows the ones calling them stupid may end up the stupid ones that just couldn't see far enough.
jack @ Oct 1st 2007 7:04PM
Spamming your friends, now that's just wrong!
A true Buddy would never do that.
EVEN IF THEY ARE FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.fakebuddy.com/