FooSMS: No Backwas! One step away from SMSing!

Goto Foosms.com

Foosms is a website which allows you to send SMS to any mobile phone in India. Well, there are lot many already available, why I am writing about this? Because Foosms doesn’t require any login or registration to send SMSs. Foosms is quite simple, I was really surprised to see homepage. I was expecting many bla bla bla things about features it offers & a “Register Now” button!!! But FooSMS presented me SMS sending interface right away in home page!

FooSMS Home Page

One of the reason for success of Google is that it is simple. Especially Search, it gives a search box straight away to input in & search. If you load Yahoo, you will lot of unwanted stuff & have to search for the search box! I guess whomever made this page are inspired by Google!

So you start SMSing straight away without any login, any backwaas!

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Twitter is a service which ask you “what are you doing?”. But it’s deviated a lot from this theme & evolved as a big microblogging platform. You can just update whatever you want through web, IM or Phone. Others can follow your updates & can receive updates via all three mentioned mediums.

Twitter has millions of users & finding people from your location to interact is difficult as there is no such option provided right now. Abhinav Sarkar, a forth year student in IIT Kharagpur, created a script just for fun. But the script is really useful, it is written in python & uses Twitter API. Primarily script crawls Abhinav’s Indian friends on twitter by looking at location entry as “India”, “Bangalore”, “Mumbai”…etc into his database. Later script crawls his friend’s Indian friends & so on, the list keeps building. Finally, the result is a directory of all Indian Twitterers!

This list can be accessed at
http://abhinav.sarkar.googlepages.com/indiantwitterers.html

Great work Abhinav

Update:

Abhinav has created a twitter bot which follows, collects tweets from all Indian Twitterers & re-tweets them. So, you can follow this bot to follow all Indian twitterers tweets. Follow this bot at http://twitter.com/IndiaTwit