tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37779135659079651552024-03-05T11:34:06.087+05:30The Activ Mobs blogVidit the INactivISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706559375074078758noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-23464031741316737332007-12-16T02:43:00.000+05:302007-12-16T03:33:30.145+05:30We are now running advertisement campaignsSo it's live now - Activ Mobs is officially an advertising platform. <span style="font-weight: bold;">We can help you reach out to up to 5000 individuals between 17 and 25 years of age in Karnataka every single day</span>.<br /><br />All our ads are appended to regular mobs group SMS traffic; we never push ads alone to users. This means that when a Mobs user receives a message from us, it is always something he or she is interested in reading. You'd be surprised how much difference this makes, since the user <span style="font-style: italic;">does not</span> regard your advertisement as spam.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">How it works</span><br /><ol><li>Activ Mobs is a group sms service which sends out an average of 50,000 messages per day.</li><li>These messages are all expected by our users and are sent by people who are their friends and are part of their own SMS groups - i.e, they are not spam created from external sources.</li><li>We can append ads of upto 80 characters in length at the end of these messages.</li><li>We can ask users who see these ads to respond with a keyword - when they do, we can send them a message about your service or product containing upto 160 chars.</li></ol>For example, a sample message might look like this:<br /><code>adu(frnds):guys i leave 2mr meet today? coffee, drinks?<br />+Priests 2 Pubs find it all @ yulop.com, sms YULOP for more</code><br /><br />So Adu sends a message to his mob <code>frnds</code> suggesting they all meet up; appended to this is an advertisement. If someone is interested by the advertisement, they request more information by sending the keyword - <code>yulop</code> in the example - to Activ. Activ in turn would send back a full, 160 character advertisement (which is the maximum length of an SMS). This could consist of anything from information about your services or products to a discount voucher - it's entirely up to you.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Introductory Pricing</span><br />Per impression cost: 15 paise<br />Per response cost: 1 rupee<br />Keyword cost: <span style="font-weight: bold;"> Free!</span><br /><br />What's more, we also let you decide how many impressions an individual receives. We're essentially giving you <span style="font-weight: bold;">dirt cheap impressions on extremely high quality real estate</span>, and you <span style="font-weight: bold;">pay for </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">responses</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> what you'd otherwise pay for impressions</span>. Yes, we've certainly learned a few things from Google's Ad-sense.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">So let's do a campaign!</span><br />If you're interested, please drop us a mail (<a href="mailto:rahul@inactiv.com">rahul@inactiv.com</a>) - one of us from Activ will help you compose a good ad given the length restrictions. Once the campaign is done we will provide you with the statistics and take your feedback.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Note:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">We will not provide our users' personal information (which includes their phone numbers) as part of the statistics</span>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938300811286150164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-46730521365504146102007-11-22T01:22:00.000+05:302007-11-22T17:50:48.858+05:30Activ in the Economic Times, Nov 21 2007You can also <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/LiveITUP/ActivMobs_introduces_SMS_chat_conferences/articleshow/2557366.cms">read it online</a>.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAPdBxqkTx6Vnm1vwjGVPG1vD_3IeXLcDtlpoLPQmTzq3ga0rhX0bHyTwWFBn24aweExKM3zqLnoZWTYJ1NXyUZZfsBcgebXmBsZyuJrz1Ivq6pXcBRRhaWKB_vwjUtyg4p2ECvFIamuE/s1600-h/Activ-EconomicTimes.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAPdBxqkTx6Vnm1vwjGVPG1vD_3IeXLcDtlpoLPQmTzq3ga0rhX0bHyTwWFBn24aweExKM3zqLnoZWTYJ1NXyUZZfsBcgebXmBsZyuJrz1Ivq6pXcBRRhaWKB_vwjUtyg4p2ECvFIamuE/s400/Activ-EconomicTimes.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135395698247162338" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938300811286150164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-23581071468845029662007-11-20T00:20:00.000+05:302007-11-20T00:21:20.174+05:30Micro blog to Blogger blogs using ActivNow you can post to your <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Blogger</a> blog when on the move via SMS. All you need to do is register your blog. Here's how you go about it:<br /><ol><li>Register your blog with Activ. SMS<br /><p><code> blog register myblog.blogspot.com myusername@gmail.com mypassword </code></p> to <b>9844622848. </b>You will receive a confirmation message.<br /></li><br /><li>Start posting. Any time you SMS the command 'blog' followed by some text to<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">9844622848</span>, it will be posted to your blogspot blog. For example, <p><code> blog I'm watching Barman Begins. It's awesome! </code></p><br /></li></ol>All messages are regular, local SMS, so it costs you your regular, local rates. No Rs. 3 crap.<br />You can see an example of Moblogs at my personal blog, <a href="http://blog.sidu.in/2007/11/hack-hack-hack.html">here</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938300811286150164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-13270434650984190932007-09-03T23:53:00.000+05:302007-09-04T00:14:20.452+05:30Activ Mobs in the news today<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRelw-OOm6J4B2R_JVhRL_Ny1_zwyOwDQvc47DWZO_vEzFjoNEoSzLlO-m-bIcuFkddxVdNoPqd6-2o-eD8DzXpdMUdT5FvYZQGCiB8CXOpNp1QK7cunbL4rVnVOfIuIHg_-urGwnooak/s1600-h/ActivMOBS+-+Bangalore+Mirror.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRelw-OOm6J4B2R_JVhRL_Ny1_zwyOwDQvc47DWZO_vEzFjoNEoSzLlO-m-bIcuFkddxVdNoPqd6-2o-eD8DzXpdMUdT5FvYZQGCiB8CXOpNp1QK7cunbL4rVnVOfIuIHg_-urGwnooak/s400/ActivMOBS+-+Bangalore+Mirror.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106050238392334882" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938300811286150164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-10345222860149276792007-08-15T21:20:00.000+05:302007-08-15T21:32:44.121+05:30We're ready to get serious<a href="http://inactiv.com">Activ Mobs</a> now has 30,000 registered users. Traffic is now 1.5 <span style="font-style: italic;">million</span> SMS text messages every month. And all this in eight months, with no publicity and very basic equipment. And only within Karnataka state.<br /><br />The Activ team is now certain that Mobs is an idea which will work. Once we've upgraded to the right infrastructure and go national, we expect to scale to 50 million messages a month nationally inside of six months.<br /><br />That's 1.6 million text messages reaching educated, upwardly mobile people, every day. The opportunity is clear.<br /><br />Activ is now looking for investors to help us reach this goal. If you're interested, please do contact us by e-mail at rahul@inactiv.comAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938300811286150164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-81325394445551437802007-06-26T15:20:00.000+05:302007-06-26T15:21:00.267+05:30We are flying againActivMobs is up and running.<br /><br />Keep Mobbing.Vidit the INactivISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706559375074078758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-1422859810020030792007-06-25T23:42:00.000+05:302007-06-26T00:21:47.965+05:30Good News/Bad NewsGood News First<br /><br />We are inches away from 20000 user mark. Added a new number: 9844124536<br /><br />And now the BIG BAD NEWS<br /><br />Our numbers have been blocked by the telecom operator. Are trying real hard to fix this issue. Please bear with us. ACTIV WILL BE DOWN IN THE MEANTIME.<br /><br />Definitely no donuts for the operator :)<br /><br /><br />team activVidit the INactivISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706559375074078758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-64346232652110734882007-03-26T11:58:00.000+05:302007-03-30T18:56:07.730+05:30Activ Mobs at Barcamp Bangalore 3.0Barcamp is one of the coolest tech conferences I've ever been to. Barcamp 2.0, which happened in December last year blew me away; both the people and the topics were absolutely amazing. <a href="http://barcampbangalore.org/wiki/Main_Page">Barcamp Bangalore 3.0</a> is happening at <a href="http://barcampbangalore.org/wiki/BCB3_Venue">IIMB</a> on March 31st and April 1st (Saturday and Sunday), so try to be there because it's totally worth it. <br />We'll be talking about <a href="http://blog.inactiv.com/2006/12/whats-story-morning-glory.html">Activ Mobs</a> on Saturday and will be there for the full duration of the event as attendees, so feel free to catch us there. We're looking forward to talking to you guys face-to face and getting your feedback and suggestions first-hand. Keep mobbing!<br /><br />Oh, and we've hit 9000 users, so yeah, baby, you guys rock!Vidit the INactivISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706559375074078758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-85560542482400668302007-03-14T19:10:00.000+05:302007-03-14T19:18:18.115+05:30Commuteeasy.com gets our voteOne of our friends, Vipul Kasera, is running <a href="http://www.commuteeasy.com/">commutueeasy.com</a> - a website dedicated to promoting and enabling car-pooling in Bangalore. If anything can help improve the miserable traffic conditions we all have to deal with everyday, it's Commute Easy.<br />Commute Easy gets our vote and we're going to both promote the website as well as to enable car-poolers to communicate more conveniently by creating their own mobs for their pools.<br />Enjoy maadi!Vidit the INactivISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706559375074078758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-53659794075706159652007-03-08T21:11:00.000+05:302007-03-14T11:47:04.453+05:30Superfast mobbing! Alright!So there's a lot that's happened in the month since the last post. Keeping to tradition, the first thing I'll cover is our user base - we crossed 6000 users a couple of days ago. Keep mobbing guys, we really appreciate your support!<br /><br />Next, we added three new numbers to Mobs to increase performance and make the service more responsive. The numbers are 9964036113/4/5. You'd have started receiving messages from one of these numbers early in February and we're happy to announce that this expansion of our capacity has gone perfectly. So create all the mobs you want - we can now support them! Incidentally, you can now send Mobs messages to any of these numbers as well as the old faithful, 9844622848.<br /><br />We also came across a problem with cross-network message delays, from a non-Spice network to Spice - for example from Airtel to Mobs (Mobs is on Spice). The deal is that these messages never <span style="font-style: italic;">reach</span> our Mobs servers and so the messages never get forwarded. As an interim solution we've added delivery confirmation messages - the Mobs server will send you an SMS confirming that it has received your message and has forwarded it to your mob. So just keep an eye out for that delivery notification - if you don't get one then it's likely that your message hasn't been delivered. You can just resend the message to any of the Mobs numbers mentioned above. You can turn this feature off by sending <code>delivery off</code> to any of the mobs numbers, but we recommend that you keep it on if you are using a non-Spice connection.<br /><br />Last but not least, we're working frantically on getting a new website up which allows you to create mobs and add people to them. It's going to be fairly basic to start with but we hope to build on it over time.Vidit the INactivISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706559375074078758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-11091427625722177412007-02-05T14:49:00.000+05:302007-03-15T11:41:39.969+05:30We can't afford you guys on some days!Hey guys...<br />Here is the list of days on which we need to shut down Activ Mobs traffic as on these days Spice Telecom will charge SMS sent @ Re 1/- per SMS. If we keep Mobs running we'd sink because that would bring our SMS bills for that single day alone to about Rs. 8000/- so please - kindly adjust :-)<br /><br />14 Feb - Valentines Day<br />4 Mar - Holi<br />19 Mar - Ugadi<br />1 Apr - Eid-Milad<br />5 Aug - Friendship Day<br />15 Aug - Independence Day<br />28 Aug - Raksha Bandhan (Rakhi)<br />15 Sep - Ganesh Chaturthi<br />25 Oct - Dussera<br />8 Nov - Diwali<br />9 Nov - Diwali again<br />25 Dec - Christmas<br />31 Dec - New Year Eve<br /><br />We got this list from Spice Customer Care.<br /><br />Keep mobbing, guys, you rock!Vidit the INactivISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706559375074078758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-11253056557578292732006-12-29T13:04:00.000+05:302006-12-29T13:17:10.210+05:30Health checkNumbers: We crossed 2500 users a couple of days ago. Growth has slowed, but is still steady.<br />The system is chugging away normally once again - no more delayed messages!<br /> We hope to add our new hardware by mid-January so please bear with the limitations of Mobs until then - we're going all out in the meanwhile on improving features.<br />On a slightly different note, <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Asim</span> <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Rehman</span> from <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">BMS</span> dropped us a mail about the fact that towards the middle of last week, the first few characters of the message was getting lost. We've got this fixed now - thanks <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Asim</span>! So keep talking to us - we need to hear from you guys.Vidit the INactivISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706559375074078758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-1706377191608926402006-12-17T22:25:00.000+05:302007-03-15T11:41:59.136+05:30Swalpa adjust maadi...Alrighty, today's numbers: we had 220 mobbers join us, bring us up to 1792 mobbers in toto - and we didn't bother trying to count how many messages we sent out ;-).<br /><br />We've also added some temporary (we mean that!) restrictions to keep our server from going down:<br />- We're not mobbing messages longer than 130 characters<br />- We're not mobbing messages to mobs with more than 15 members<br /><br />We're in the process of ordering a bunch of new hardware - modems, servers, yada-yada. We're also begging, borrowing or stealing our friends and relatives desktops. And all this purely for <span style="font-style: italic;">your</span> mobbing pleasure. So please, until we get all this online, swalpa adjust maadi...Vidit the INactivISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706559375074078758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-73105472848290528852006-12-15T22:48:00.000+05:302006-12-15T22:55:32.045+05:30How're we doing today?Well, the good news is that we've crossed the 1000 user mark and are sending out in excess of 10000 messages a day.<br />On the downside, our hardware is starting to buckle under the load. We knew that sooner or later we'd start to hit the limits of our home-brewed infrastructure - indeed we needed to reach that limit in order to know what it was so that we could plan our upgrades more effectively.<br />Now that we've actually hit that limit, we need you guys to hold out for a few days while we do some upgradation. We know messages are taking pretty long to get delivered. We're working on it - and we need you to bear with us in the meanwhile. We'll be as good as new before you know it!Vidit the INactivISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706559375074078758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-82300814632456965492006-12-06T22:40:00.000+05:302006-12-06T22:51:33.268+05:30130 new users in 1 day!Yeah, baby! We've added 130 new users in a single day, the highest thus far in the ten days since we started. We now have 630 users onboard!<br />Even more interesting is the creation of <a href="http://inactiv.com/">Mobs</a> in Dharwad, Manipal, Mysore, Suratkal and Tumkur. While we have friends in Manipal and Suratkal who have heard of Activ Mobs from us and are probably responsible for the activity in those cities, we had nothing at all to do with the others.<br />Looks like the ball is starting to roll and we want <i>you</i> along for the ride. Keep mobbing!Vidit the INactivISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706559375074078758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3777913565907965155.post-75185722655721070602006-12-05T11:25:00.000+05:302006-12-05T11:34:45.704+05:30What’s the story, morning glory?It’s been little over a week since we launched Activ Mobs and given the response, I figure it’s time to start blogging about it. We’re already hitting upwards of 400 users and are sending out some 5000 messages in a day and are aiming for 10000 users at the end of two months. <p>So what <i>is</i> Activ Mobs? Mobs is a free (YEAH, FREE – in case you missed it :-)) SMS based group chat service available to mobile users in Karnataka. Quite simply, it’s conference calls for SMS. If you are part of a group of people who need to communicate with each other (your car-pool, your project team, your circle of friends, your family...), Mobs is for you. One person no longer needs to co-ordinate in order to inform all members of the group, organize something or reach a decision – everyone in the mob talks to everyone else. </p> <br /><p class="MsoNormal">Next question – how do you try this out? It’s quite simple. SMS <code>name yournickname</code> to 9844622848 (22848 reads on your keypad as <code>ACTIV</code> so it’s easy to remember) and you’re ready to roll! You'll get all the help you'll need to create your Mobs, add your friends to them and to start messaging.</p>Vidit the INactivISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12706559375074078758noreply@blogger.com