Hey Tinu – we haven’t talked in a long time! your comment wasn’t too long – it was very descriptive of the service that you’d like. Great brainstorming, girl!

Dale – In the ‘old’ days everyone had scanners, now they can use Twitter. It is a great creative way to use Twitter!

Dave – I’m glad that you’re enjoying (addicted) to Twitter now *grin*. Thanks for the predictions! We’ll have to watch as it develops.

May sound a little nutty but most of my African clothes are custom made. I’ve seen our family tailor maybe once in ten years. I now send them measurements only, but it can be such a hassle because they are completely offline. As in, why would I want a computer, offline, LOL. So if I could convince them to get one of those new Presto machines – I could get me a new outfit every month.

Wow, this comment is way too long!

I just discovered that Noah Glass the founder of GoMobo is on Twitter as NNGlass.

Here is another blog posting on how they want to integrate to Twitter http://web.enjoychn.com/blog/13348-gomobo-uses-twitter-for-new-food-buddy-feature

I have been following this company since I read about them in a Entrepreuner mag article. If this has widespread folloiwng we can do a lot more on Twitter and our mobile phone.

I must put a plug for a product that I manage for Netsol. This is a easy to build website for a novice /small business to build a website for mobile devices at BuildMyMobi.com. This is relevant as therestaurants that use the gomobo service can out their menus on a mobile site for people to see on their cell phones. See http://passagetoIndia.mobi on your mobile phone as an example.

Another derivation of this sms ordering we’re likely to see someday is free sms with a GPS hook such that when you’re four blocks from PapaJohns (or other “preferred” establishment) and likely to pass it (based on your driving path/pattern), you’ll get an sms coupon about 2 for 1 ThinCrust etc… Pure prediction here: this will become mainstream when your phone drops into an integrated cradle in your car allowing two way text-to-voiceto-text (like an enhanced version of a hands free Jott).

As for opting-in to receive text msgs of specials, well, that’s something I’d never do because I believe in holding the line against excessive commercial text msgs to my cell phone. And if I did opt-in, I doubt that receiving msgs from Papa Johns would increase my purchases from them – the occasional home-delivery pizza purchase is not something that’s price-sensitive for me. However, for others who are high-volume pizza consumers – such as college students – I can see how that sort of thing would be very appealing.