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Esendex are proud to announce their sponsorship of Nottingham Twestival on Tuesday 12th February.

Twestival is a global initiative to raise funds and awareness for the Charity: Water. Charity: Water are committed to bringing water to the 1 in 6 of the worlds population without access to it. 

Twitterers are organizing and meeting at fundraising events in 175+ cities around the world, all on 12th February. The Nottingham event is meeting at the Castle Pub, Nottingham from 19:30.

Adam Bird, said “I am really pleased to be involved in this initiative, many of us in Esendex are committed tweeters and benefit greatly from connecting with people all over the world.

“Bringing the twitter community together to help raise funds to support Charity: Water is a truly laudable initiative and I encourage everyone to take part.”

To find out how to get involved visit the Nottingham Twestival web site

On Twitter: @nottstwestival, @esendex, @adambird

We’re also keen to know what’s happening in your world so follow us and we’ll follow you.

With just a few days before the Esendex Last Minute Triathlon, Richard Stannard came in to give the team some last minute tips and coaching.

For most of the team it’s their first triathlon so Richard tooks us through the whole transition process (the change over from swim to bike and bike to run), the most technical part of triathlon; as well as a run and bike skills session. 

At the level Richard races at, every second really counts and he had a bag full of tips, tricks and lessons born out of years spent looking for that edge over the best triathletes in the world as well as some of the most officious judges it would seem.

While each second probably won’t count as greatly for our team, his advice was invaluable, even to those of us who have competed a few times already. For those of us who are first-timers, it was a great opportunity to get a mental edge over the other novices and perhaps turn some of the pre-race nerves into a little bit of excitement.

Over and above the technical guidance, his biggest piece of advice was to ‘have fun’ and we certainly plan to do that.

Do we look ready?

BTW Richard is the tall, athletic looking one on the left.

The SMS Developer Challenge invited talented developers form across the globe to submit their ideas for innovative use of 2-way SMS.

With fellow judges Mike Short, Chairman of the Mobile Data Association, Ewan MacLeod, Editor of SMS Text News, we awarded first place – a cash prize of £1,000 – to TextQube. Developed by UK-based Reynardine Software, TextQube makes it very easy for companies to mobilise their existing data by simply querying database information on a PC by SMS. 

We all agreed that TextQube has real potential to drive more innovation in 2-way SMS as it allows businesses to trial a service to assess the business case before committing to further development and enhancements.

Mike Thompson of Reynardine Software said “It’s terrific to win this competition and a big thanks to Esendex for the opportunity to demonstrate the product and Reynardine’s passion for efficient 2-way communication by mobile. TextQube is fantastic for SMEs that want to mobilise and control information on a new level.”

Two runners-up have been awarded £500 each, CotralisSMSGPS from the Netherlands, and CallMeBack from Singapore. CotralisSMSGPS, chosen because it uses SMS to augment a blog post with a location, enables blog postings to be made from anywhere. Conference call service, CallMeBack was chosen due to its ability to use SMS to put the user in control of a conference call.

Mike Short commented, “All entries to the challenge have shown extraordinary levels of creativity and innovation. Dedicated to the mobile industry, I’m always eager to know about new developments so it was interesting for me to see the ideas that people have for the use of 2-way SMS.”

“As a mobile fanatic, I’ve really enjoyed judging this competition” said Ewan MacLeod. “The high quality of entrants reflected the interest in technology for the future of SMS as a communication and business service.”

HackerSafe, now part of the McAfee empire, is the leading website vunerability testing service used by ecommerce merchants all over the world. The service regularly scans our systems for vunerabilities, alerting our operations team as soon as something is discovered. Should anything arise, we action it, HackerSafe confirms it and the current state is visible on the website badge (above). 

The service is primarily aimed at giving customers of ecommerce merchants confidence and the first place you’ll see the logo is on our new ecommerce site being released next week.

For me though it doesn’t stop there. As the whole of esendex.com is regularly scanned for compliance, you can be sure that the messaging and contact information you entrust to us is similarly protected.

After a successful rollout in the UK, BlogIt is now available in each of our core markets. So customers in Spain, France, Ireland and Australia can now update their blogs by SMS for just the cost of a local SMS. 

The BlogIt numbers in each country are:

• Spain: +34637283600
• France: +33630984036
• Ireland: +353879350016
• Australia: +61416905004

Once you’ve set up your BlogIt account, messages texted to your local BlogIt number will be posted to your blog immediately.

If you’re new to Esendex’s services Sign up as a user now and you can start using BlogIt within minutes.

If you are already an existing Esendex customer simply log in from the home page and update your BlogIt details from My Details.

I’m heading off to Paris tomorrow on my Brompton folding bike along with 21 other parents and teachers to raise money, among other things, for my sons’s school.

As ‘chief technologist’ for the event I wanted to make sure the whole team could report back to base on what’s going on during the 4 day ride. While some of the team have the very latest in mobile communication devices, there are also some old school work horses that just phone and text. 

So I went ahead and fired up a virtual mobile number, connected it to the web site using the Esendex API and we were live. I’ve mixed in a Flickr stream as well and very easily we have a live view, updatable by everyone from wherever they are. ]]> http://blog.esendex.co.uk/post/sms-blogging-to-paris/feed/ 0