Recess Mobile

Text alert system about street sweeping soon to come.

1st Ward Debuts Free Street Cleaning Text Alerts. “This is a great way to save people money and keep our streets clean.”

Texts Alert First Ward Residents About Street Sweepers. “Chicago’s First Ward is going high-tech.”

Contributor Alison mentioned us in her piece, Car Towed? Get AntiTow! Date approximate.

“Check out this cool SMS application by local Cbus startup.”

iPushback: Are Apple Developers Getting Restless?
…says Yury Tsukerman, cofounder of Recess Mobile, an SMS and web applications developer. “You don’t have to play in Apple’s sandbox to build rich apps for their devices.”

Online Service Helps Residents Avoid Towing. With video.

Watch out for tow trucks: Street sweeping commences in University District. “Even with the signs, many students fail to move their vehicles and end up feeling the frustration and financial strain of having their vehicles towed.”

Added to CrunchBase.

“There are many possibilities for applications such as this where the phone isn’t actually owned by anyone and becomes an inexpensive platform upon which to implement innovative services.”

Barry writes, “I find that a truly creative application and is typical of what we will be seeing increasingly on the Web (Mobile of course).”

Fast Casual, a leading restaurant industry trade journal, names Recess Mobile as a provider of one of the Ten technologies that make for better business.

“…they’ve brought together all the many apps and projects they’ve developed, all of them focused around using SMS to do things.”

GatorChef restaurant equipment identifies text message paging as an emergent trend in the restaurant space, with Recess at the forefront.

Garrett Peck mentions Recess Mobile and high response rates for SMS marketing in Nightclub & Bar Magazine. Here’s how it appeared in print.

John Foley covers Recess Paging System in AllBusiness.com and the Examiner.

Campus Partners on AntiTow.

Pat Snyder covers AntiTow: Texting, the new salvation?.

Mobile Mammoth covers AntiTow: New SMS Service Keeps Tow Truck Away.

Michelle Sullivan covers AntiTow in the Lantern.

Kim Fox covers AntiTow in WOSU NPR Radio.

10 Services To Send Text Messages From The Web. “Not only can you text people, you can schedule them for later delivery.”

Electronic Reminders. “Plug in a mobile number, date and time you want your text alert sent, as well as a message, and ohdontforget.com will take care of the rest.”

100+ Ways to Organize Your Life.

50 Best Websites 2007. “It does only one thing, but it does it oh, so well.”

“The oh, don’t forget site offers an easy way to send yourself (and other people) reminders to a mobile phone.”

“We’ll show off a few handy websites that will teach you SMS basics and how to send a text message from your computer to your phone.”

“This is the new darling of the Today Show!… Regina Lewis, consumer adviser for AOL, has the lowdown on the best web sites.” – NBC, Today Show on air 8/12/06

“My handheld helps me remember things like that. But you can never have too much help. That’s why oh, don’t forget is so handy.”

EPISODE #51, at 3:38.

“Oh Don’t Forget hits the spot and it hits it well.”

“I absolutely love the simplicity and clarity.”

Talking to the future. “oh, don’t forget….that lets you text message yourself (or a buddy) at some date in the future.”

Cute site of the day: Oh Don’t Forget. “… simplicity is beautiful, and by that metric this site is a knockout.”

“… a website with a simple premise, but which has a lot of potential to be useful.”

“… this is probably the most simple tool I’ve come across for creating a quick SMS reminder.”

“Next time you don’t want to forget about something, try ohdontforget.com.”

I have to say, I like ODF way better than TextMemos, which itself was a rather weak replacement for the now-defunct PingMe. It’s great for creating simple, effective reminders — not only for yourself, but also for your employees.