Kishyr Ramdial

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Kishyr Ramdial
SuperHero; iPhone & Web 2.0 SuperCoder (I ♥ Ruby, Rails, Objective-C, Cocoa, jQuery, PHP); Avid Mac OS X fan and proudly South African!

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Introducing Smeets - a social experiment that lets you SMS your tweets in SA

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I've been working on a side project at immedia recently that I've code-named Smeets. (Got a better name? Drop me a comment!) It's a social experiment and we want to gauge what penetration tweeting by SMS might have in South Africa. Also, this project was more of a just-for-fun and a cos-we-can project :-)

Smeets allows you to tweet from anywhere using any cellphone since it all it requires is an SMS capable phone. We're using a standard cellphone number which means standard peak and off-peak rates apply; it also means that you can use your free and bundled SMSes to tweet!

Judging by today's response, it seems tweeting by SMS might have an interesting impact in South Africa. The next few weeks will be interesting to see what the Smeets stats are like.

If you're curious and would like to try out tweeting by sms, simply visit http://smeets.immedia.co.za and sign up for an invite. It's a closed beta right now cos we're still experimenting with the code base ourselves. Enjoy!

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#FistOfGemmell

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Just fixed a Cocoa-related bug. I think it's because of my new #fistofgemmell avatar.

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I'm Twitter's 3878th user.

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The Twitter Tango

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Follow me on Twitter: @kishyr
It's been a busy (for lack for a busier word) past few months. I can't seem to balance my time enough to blog about landmark events in my life anymore. And it's not just blogging. It's pretty much everything socially online: Facebook and Flickr too. One networking service that seems to have taken the schlep out of updating your life online is Twitter.

In 140 characters or less I can micro-blog about anything. I can even snap a photo on my iPhone and upload it seamlessly to twitter and twitpic - without any bother at all. Twitter integrates into your life's flow so painlessly that you can 'tweet' about pretty much anything you like in under a minute. I can keep track of my friend's flows too without the bloat that Facebook brings with it.

Now, not to say I don't see a purpose of blogging (I do). I just think it's great that we have these two separate, independent frameworks that allow us to explore our simple day-to-day thinkings (Twitter), and when we need to, to explore in-depth news, issues, and opinions (blogging).

If you're keen on keeping up with my day-to-day world and musing yourself while I rejoice and curse over code, follow me on Twitter: I'm @kishyr.

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Introducing Smeets - a social experiment that lets you SMS your tweets in SA

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I'm Twitter's 3878th user.

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