A new mobile phone service is available for those of us who want to stay in contact with our MySpace friends. Tell Them is a service that lets the user send pictures and text via a mobile device. The service is free and simple to use.
First, go to the Tell Them site on your phone. Enter your MySpace E-Mail password and select the friends you want to contact. Write a message and attach a picture if you want and blamo, the message is sent.
This service is very new so it is impossible to say right now if it will become popular. Tell Them appears to be the only service that currently caters specifically to mobile users who want to send MySpace messages. By providing a specific service for a popular phenomena like MySpace, Tell Them has the potential to grow rapidly. If the service is liked, mention of Tell Them will spread through MySpace quickly.
I look forward to the day of the officially sanctioned 3rd party MySpace app. MySpace is still the biggest, and there is a lot if innovation to be had, especially in the mobile arena. I expect mobile centric widgets and services to start a strong growth pattern soon anyway, but what more logical way is there for MySpace to continue to grow, than to allow 3rd party mobile application development.
I went to the site for the service and this came up:
“On Wednesday August 29th, 2007, we got a call from MySpace threatning to take legal action if we didn’t take the website down. Apparently it violates their terms of service…. switch to Facebook.”
So as you can see, MySpace doesn’t grasp the 2.0 concept at all. Letting this happen was much easier than adding RSS. They will just fall behind, what a pity.