Get Quotes On Your Phone
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006Text iheartquotes to MOZES (66937) and you’ll get a random quote text-messaged back to you.
Mozes is a text messaging company that offers hosted keywords. They provide the text messaging service and the dedicated number. You provide the content. There’s a bunch of options for providing dynamic content using their API. At the easy end, which is what I did, you just need to provide a URL that responds with the content inside an XML packet.
The first keyword is free and you don’t actually need to be a programmer to use it. In fact the service seems to be mostly used by bands to provide tour information.
iheartquotes.com is a quote database that I built a few weeks ago so that I’d have better access to my favorite quotes (mostly drawn from the Unix fortune program). It as its own API so that you can add quotes to your programs or websites (I use it to get a random quote whenever I login and also to show a random quote on my website).
