Aug
15
If you are looking for a quick way to put things on your to-do list when you are out and about, check out Kwiry.
According to the Associated Press story Kwiry service lets users text themselves reminders by Rachel Metz…
“August 15, 2008 - NEW YORK — It happens to everyone: A friend recommends a good book or movie, but by the time you get around to Googling it — assuming you get that far — you can’t remember what it’s called.
A San Francisco-based start-up called kwiry (pronounced “query”) aims to help you remember such snippets of information with a free service that lets you text these tidbits from your cellphone to its site.
“What we want to do is make the experience of remembering as simple as possible,” said kwiry Chief Executive and co-founder Ron Feldman.
After signing up on kwiry’s website, you can start sending text messages to “kwiry,” or “59479″ on a phone’s keypad. The messages can be about anything you want to follow up on. Feldman said he has seen users send reminders about books, products they want to buy and varieties of wine.
When you’re back at a computer, you can visit kwiry’s website to see items displayed as links that can be clicked for related search results. Kwiry can also automatically send that information to your e-mail address.
The site has several shortcuts intended to make remembering even simpler, including two added this week letting users more easily add items to their wish lists at retailer Amazon.com or DVD queues at Netflix.
Just type “Netflix” followed by the name of a movie you want to see, for instance, and watch that item get added to Netflix queue.
Kwiry didn’t work with Netflix or Amazon to come up with these shortcuts. With the Amazon shortcut, for example, kwiry is basically running a product search on Amazon.com based on a user’s kwiry post and adding the first result to that person’s wish list.
Kwiry is exploring other shortcuts. One possibility Feldman mentioned would let users bookmark restaurants on the review site Yelp from their cellphones.”
