Txtms today launched its new mobile service that makes it easier for people to exchange contact information. All you need to is signup for the service, add your contact information to your profile that you want to share, and you are good share the information. Next time anyone asks for your business card, ask him to SMS- yourID to x@txtms.com to get the contact details emailed or SMSed. As for controls to who gets to receive your contact info, you can set automatic sharing of contact information or manually approve each of incoming requests. All contacts are automatically saved to your Txtms account making it easier to retrieve the information from PC or mobile.
However, using another contact management system like Txtms just adds to the mess at hand. Like any other user, there is no way I am ever going to be able to sync my contacts between my mobile, Google Apps, Gmail, Gtalk, Yahoo IM, and Skype. Txtms can end up being another dumping ground for contacts with no real integrations available right now to take the information out. Viewing the contacts on pc and mobile is okay, but getting them to sync with the rest is where the real value lies.
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February 8, 2007 at 8:22 am |
[…] Manage Your Contact Information – Or Mess It Up? Posted by Svetlana Gladkova on February 8th, 2007 Filed in Social Networking, Releases, Applications, Mobile Plentitude of online and offline personal and contact information makes it necessary for us to manage it efficiently. While the plentitude of contact information management solutions requires management of the solutions themselves. A newly launched Txtms is another solution in this row – fun and easy to use and definitely web 2.0. But would anyone really use it? […]