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I'm not sure why 'SMS text to receive a call back' continues to be confused with Go800's 'text to connect', but the fact that not a single SMS text to call back service has moved to offer text to connect should tell everyone something about either the technical degree of difficulty, the deterrent value of 'patent pending', or both.
Your perspective has support. Sounds like the same service used by Comcast. "Text for Call-Back" seems like the more accurate description of Integren's service, at least as it existed as of the date of the PR below.
The unanswered question? Where are numerous reports, from overseas travelers and business reporters, of Text to Connect as used in other countries?
Also, no "news and events' from Integren since 24 July 2009. Perhaps they are in the midst of the latest in a succession of launches and relaunches?!
He's affable in person but apparently thus far ineffective as a steward of Go800. I'd prefer affable and effective, but it's an age old dilemma that goes back as at least as far as Machiavelli or "A Bronx Tale".
We were independent contractors with none of the constraints imposed on employees. You would be very hard put to associate any of our posts with GOIG pps moves in either direction. We 'talked down' the notion of registered key words as equivalent to paid customers. Some used the same reasoning we did, others wanted to believe that there were more paying customers than there were. They canceled each other out and you saw the pps reflected in that stalemate.
We were neither pumpers nor bashers. We accurately answered more questions than we raised, but we didn't forego our rights as both Go800 contractors and investors to raise legitimate questions. Some of you assumed that we had 'inside info' without stopping to think about whether or not there was ever any info shared with Ambassadors that was helpful to us as investors.
Do any of you really imagine that we were privately told that the info in PR's was false, or overly optimistic or unrealistic? We were as much in dark as each of you, which made our jobs as Ambassadors more difficult than necessary and our task as investors every bit as problematic as it was for each of you. Ike has some failings, but providing insider info to Ambassadors was not one of them
We were 'clarifiers' and key word registrars. Several of you have your requested key words reserved and still functioning within the Go800 data base because of us.
The only poster I ever read who seemingly moved pps was Tvmetguy. Too many bought into his story and some of those no doubt got hurt.
The only things that Doone and I may have hurt are feelings arising from challenged beliefs, which can and should be covered by TOS rather than by personal vendettas orchestrated and supported by a board moderator who gave more weight to complaints against us than to the vast majority of posters who took our posts in stride.
And after all is posted and done, do any of you feel any better or any worse about your GOIG holdings because of what was posted here by Doone or myself VS the actions, inactions, communications, miscommunications, 'passions' and over-promises from Go800 management and IR?
All that said, if I receive a call or an email from my GEICO or USMC contacts, or any of my other Go800 prospects, indicating interest in using Go800, I forward the info to Go800 no strings attached.
Yeah, as if I had any real insight as to who was going to hit the HR. I just don't see anybody left on the team who knows how to get wood on the ball, much less hit one out of the park.
Not necessarily. GOIG could 'manufacture runs' with a steal of 2nd base.... a non-profit advertises.....followed by a run scoring extra base hit or HR.....big name company signs on and advertises.
Or, we could suffer numerous 'rain delays' or a 'beaning' that takes us out of the game....Gobox deal falls through, real competitor makes a splash.
I used to be in the 'lineup'. I had 3 RBI's. Good enough for the 'all star team'. Got tossed for arguing with spectators, other players and the 'umpire'. (I make no apologies for being a fiery competitor.) Then I had a box seat. Now I'm in the bleachers.
Next I'll be out on the street with my tattered Rawlings glove looking to catch an out of the park HR. Need to live in Chg to understand that last one.
Just a guess. Nope! I'm content to await Trump's report on his 'investigation'. I'll look forward to the posts on this board rationalizing why "that's not the end of it!" when the report omes back either 'inconclusive' or 'nothing to it'.
What will NOT come back is "proof, he's not a U.S. citizen".
I will be here to post an apology for challenging your assertions if I'm wrong. What will you post if I'm right?
Like we were on 9/11? hasn't happended since. Probaly more undercover FBI in those cells than actual plotters!
Hopefully we won't have to scale back counter-terrorism efforts due to budget cuts.
Ones not sleeping or sleeping soundly? The ones looking/listening for the Predator Drones, which have killed far more terrorists under Obama than were killed under Bush.
Hell hath no fury like that from a 'secret Muslim'! Maybe it's like Nixon going to China?
"The number of such killings, carried out mostly by Predators in Pakistan, has increased dramatically during the Obama administration, and these covert actions have become an integral part of U.S. counterterrorism strategy."
America's creditors (China) are watching this carefully. If it looks like the ceiling won't be lifted you'll see it reflected in both the stock market and the bond markets. You won't like it.
Zero chance. Mother was a Christian. Father a 'non-practicing' Muslim. Both a Republican governor of Hawaii and the current Dem governor confirmed the existence of the original birth certificat. How likely is it the Republican would not have noted "Muslim' on the doc.?
Conservatives have NO credibility on this issue. NONE.
Bush increased the debt to $9.815 trillion by the end of his term, with plenty of help from the four Republicans currently holding Congressional leadership positions: Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl. ThinkProgress compiled a breakdown of the five debt limit increases that took place during the Bush presidency and how the four Republican leaders voted:
June 2002: Congress approves a $450 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $6.4 trillion. McConnell, Boehner, and Cantor vote “yea”, Kyl votes “nay.”
May 2003: Congress approves a $900 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $7.384 trillion. All four approve.
November 2004: Congress approves an $800 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $8.1 trillion. All four approve.
March 2006: Congress approves a $781 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $8.965 trillion. All four approve.
September 2007: Congress approves an $850 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $9.815 trillion. All four approve.
Database searches revealed no demands from the four legislators that debt increases come accompanied by drastic spending cuts, as there are now. In fact, the May 2003 debt limit increase passed the Senate the same day as the $350 billion Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.
When Bush was in office, the current Republican leaders viewed increasing the debt limit as vital to keeping America’s economy running. But with Obama in the White House, it’s nothing more than a political pawn. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You might want to apply a little common sense to this non-issue.
Huckabee made the valid point that he knows the Clintons well enough to know that they looked at this during Hilary's campaign for the nomination. IF there was anything there they would have found it AND used it. Same certainly applies to McCain campaign.
You can go back to earlier campaigns for State office and the US Senate and presume the same for his other opponents.
Since when did the US State Dept allow passports without valid birth certificates?
People who persist with this marginalize themselves and their presumptive candidate, if he or she decides to run with it.
51% 0f republicans believe Obama's not a citizen. That only leaves 49% of Republicans who believe that he is a citizen along with the vast majority of Independents and Dems.
Independents will destroy the Republicans, in a national election, for anti-intellectualism as embodied in birthers, creationists and climate change deniers. And watch what happens when the speciifcs on Ryan's privatiztion of Medicare filter out to those currently under the age of 54.
Republican Congressman sealed their '12 electoral fate, and that of their Presidential candidate, with their votes yesterday.
How long do you give Gary Busey and Meat Loaf to come up with the goods on Obama's birth certificate?!
All of the companies with registered Go800 key words have had new pricing available to them for three and one half months now.
The only ones notified of the new pricing were those under contract as of 12/31/10......likely no more than 20 companies. None of them a national advertiser.
At least two of us had the 'privilege' to retain 10 of our key word registered companies to 'work with'....once we were given the go ahead and the new commission program to make it worth our while.
No such go ahead or commission program was communicated to us.
As Doone as alluded to, it is reasonable to assume that we may have been able to sign at least a few of our reserved companies to the new pricing, not to mention some of the 90 companies that were removed from each our data bases. (The Ambassador data base of reserved key word companies was shut down for purpose of access by Ambassadors.)
None of the 10 companies we were allowed to 'keep' would have been required to use or create a Twitter user name to replace their reserved Brand key word.
The smart move would have been to allow us to communicate the new pricing to all of the companies in our data bases. The smart move.
If that had happened I have no doubt you would be looking at text USMC to 46800 in those ubiquitous USMC TV and theater ads. Outside chance that you would be looking at text GEICO and text FARMERS too.
On May 15th, 2011, Go800 will be redesginated: LLC & LILFU, thus becoming both a Limited Liability and a Limited Information, Limited Follow Up company.
(LILFU is a new legal entity primarily intended for start up and pink sheet traded companies)
But that was then when the Presidency and the Congress were Republican and conservatives were as quiet as a mouse pissing on cotton RE deficit spending, tax cuts during war and debt ceiling raises WITHOUT spending cuts.
Please share with us the 'text to connect' functionality of Google Voice. You know, where it actually says that you can do exactly that. For some reason or another it's escaped the attention of everyone else for over a year.
No, "nowhere else on the planet" is accurate. If it were being used elsewhere you would have read about it precisely, just about one year ago. If you do have a verifiable 'text to connect' story from somewhere else on the globe, please share it.
I'm fully aware of that PR, as well as the subsequent UNDT pps movement......and subsequent silence from UNDT.
You might want to apply more rigorous standards for evidence before retorting. You can in fact just as easily argue that the more serious the radiation crisis reportedly becomes, the more conspicuous and the more disconcerting is the absence of any report by UNDT of sales of radiation detectors in conjunction with the crisis.
This statement remains accurate unless or until UNDT states otherwise.
You've conflated the event with the sales prospects for a company that is one of many that offer radiation detectors. There is no evidence that UNDT products are being sought or used in response to this crisis.
"Over at the Fourth Branch, they've got a nice map showing the states that receive more than a dollar back for every dollar they pay in taxes (which they've coded red), and the states that receive less than a dollar back for every dollar they pay in taxes (which they've coded blue). Just to repeat: Red states are getting a good deal, and blue states a bad one. Here's the map:
"There is a very strong correlation, then, between a state voting for Republicans and receiving more in federal spending than its residents pay to the federal government in taxes (the rust belt and Texas being notable exceptions). In essence, those in blue states are subsidizing those in red states. Both red and blue states appear to be acting politically in opposition to their economic interests. Blue states are voting for candidates who are likely to continue the policies of red state subsidization while red states are voting for candidates who profess a desire to reduce federal spending (and presumably red state subsidization)."
'Registered' and 'reserved' have been used interchangeably to mean keywords that are stored in the Go800 data base and that function as words that can be texted to connect.
'Paying' means that the owners of the keywords are contracted with Go800 for a monthly fee.
Before that could happen you would need wide acceptance of Go800 from a universe of personal and corporate users. The very last conversation you want to have is between someone, anyone, at Go800 and a handset maufacturer/wireless carrier that begins with the questions:
"Who are you? Why should we place you on our handset screens as a standard app? Can we see a media kit with the kinds of companies and services that can be reached?"
Nobody at Go800 is as yet prepeared to have that conversation and answer those questions.
You text and.....you will be in queue for a return phone call.......much like the service Comcast and others have been offering.
Is that the 'very similar', or are we in for a surprise/rude awakening? My guess is that you don't use the words "very similar" unless it's actually 'nothing like'.
'coat-tail'?! A little too thread bare for a 'ride', wouldn't you say? I think that it was an ill-considered, petulant tweek by immature, semi-literates. My apologies to petulant, immature semi-literates.
Probably no mistake, considering the 'player'. But it is the kind of mistake one could make if one assumed Text MY Market was NOT just another SMS, but rather a 'text to connect' service. A mistake repeatedly made by some posters on this board.
In any case, the references to GOIG are gone fom the most recent Minamoo PR, and they do not appear either on the TITL site.
Mistake or deliberate, they're not 'comfortable' carying forward the misinformation.
Begs the questions as to whether the 'car' is actually up on the rack for repairs and whether or not we need an 'appraisal' before we sink more money into a 'beater' or consider a 'trade-in' for a newer 'model'.