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sms2buzz
An SMS to Google Buzz Gateway
Google Buzz does not directly support SMS posting, but there is a quite tricky workaround that can be useful, if you are not constantly in WiFi or 3G coverage area.
Since I cannot use Google's Blogger.com's SMS feature (I have Malaysian cell number, so even GV is still not a solution, yet), and I really dislike Wordpress so had no interest in finding out will it support SMS or not (seems like it wouldn't anyway) I had chosen Ping.fm as an intermediate between the mobile carrier and Blogspot.
After Blogspot receives the SMS request, the scenario is almost identical to Tyler's:
- This blog serves as the SMS to Buzz gateway (after Ping.fm)
- Route the blog’s RSS or Atom feed through FeedBurner
- Add an XFN “me” link from the blog to the Google Profile
- Add the blog as a profile page to the Google Profile
- Have Google re-crawl the blog
- Add the blog to the Buzz stream
As a result, no matter if I am in WiFi or 3G coverage area, I always have access to FB (via Celcom SMS) and Google Buzz (and to whatever services I link to it: twitter, gtalk status, etc.) instantly, over good old SMS. The only downside is that I need to send an SMS to a UK number, but it costs very little nowadays.