photo caption: still-life, literary cafe, Rio Piedras neighborhood, San Juan, PR
12-11-10 9:08:07A FEW WEEKS AGO MY FAVORITE ONLINE SERVICE ANNOUNCED THEY WERE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T FIND A WAY TO COVER COSTS. THEIR UTILITY READS MY EMAILS TO ME OVER MY CELLPHONE AND ALLOWS ME TO REPLY BY LEAVING A VOICE MESSAGE THAT IS THEN SENT AS AN ATTACHMENT IN A REPLY NOTE TO THE ORIGINAL SENDER. I TRIED IT OUT YESTERDAY WHILE LISTENING TO EMAILS AT MY FAVORITE LITERARY CAFE NEAR UNIV OF PUERTO RICO. STEVE FISHER HAD SENT ME A NOTE ABOUT HIS LATEST BLOG/FACEBOOK POSTING AND I RESPONDED TO HIM WITH A VOICE MESSAGE WHICH HE LISTENED TO, THEN COVERTED TO TEXT USING HIS VOICE-TO-TEXT/TEXT-TO-VOICE UTILITY...
From: MailSpeaking
To: GALLIGAN
Subject: Update about the Email by Phone Service
Date: Nov 30, 2010
Dear Jan, Thank you everyone who responded to our previous email about the
subscription model. Unfortunately there was not enough interest from the
users to cover our costs. So we had to take the painful decision of Shutting down the Email to Phone
service effective Dec 1, 2010. The service will work as usual until then.
You will need to make alternate arrangements for your mobile email access
after that. All the Best, MailSpeaking
From: Steve Fisher
To: galligan
Subject: Re: Re:Fishful Thinking
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:27:02 +0100 Jan: Very cool! Steve >----- Original Message -----
>From: galligan
>To: Steve Fisher
>Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 8:01 PM
>Subject: Re:Fishful Thinking >attachment: reply-to-stephenhendrixfisher-12-10-10-8-01-note.mp3
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Sent from my phone through MailSpeaking > -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Fisher >
> Sent: Fri 12/10/2010 8:03 AM
> To: galligan, et.al.
> Cc:
> Subject: Fishful Thinking
>
> Dear all,
>
> FISHFUL THINKING RETURNS this week with YET ANOTHER column dedicated to the world of on-line social networking, entitled "What I DIDN'T Post on Facebook Recently." > What I Didn't Post on Facebook Recently << LINK>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve
J.Galligan
75GRAND/SUR
Santa Olaya, PR