We’re incredibly excited to announce our international partnership with Tigo, one of the top carriers in Latin America and Africa. Tigo subscribers in Colombia can now access DOTGO by texting any domain name to COM (266). In the coming weeks, DOTGO will be accessible by Tigo subscribers in 13 additional countries. Be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook as we continue our international expansion. To find out more about DOTGO’s service in Colombia, visit:
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Announcing: International Expansion, Tigo Partnership
Posted: February 21st, 2012DOTGO Featured in the NY Times Tech Talk Podcast!
Posted: September 22nd, 2011We are very excited to be a part of this week’s New York Times Tech Talk Podcast! Our CEO, Stefan Gromoll, stopped by the NY Times Tech Talk studio to talk about how DOTGO works, and the history behind the company. Check it out! 
DOTGO Reseller and Affiliate Programs are Here!
Posted: September 14th, 2011We’re excited to announce the beta launch of the DOTGO Reseller and Affiliate Programs! Every day we’ll be inviting people to the programs, so head to our sign up pages to request an invite!
DOTGO Reseller Program
Use our new Reseller API to build custom SMS applications for your clients and integrate DOTGO’s technology into you existing services. By joining the Reseller Program you can purchase DOTGO messaging plans at 50% off retail, and have the freedom to either build a custom content management system, or embed our white-label DOTGO Publisher tool directly into your website.
For a limited time we’re offering one month free access so you can try it out!
Sign up now for a beta invite to the Reseller Program!
DOTGO Affiliate Program
Bring DOTGO to your clients without having to write a line of code and earn 20% on all referrals. Use the new Affiliate dashboard to track clicks, referrals, and commission, and look forward to monthly payments.
Sign up now for a beta invite to the Affiliate Program!
Top SMS Sites for Hurricane Irene Information
Posted: August 26th, 2011NYC and surrounding area, here’s a round up of SMS sites to check out in preparation for Hurricane Irene.
If you lose mobile data or power in general during the hurricane (or if you don’t have a smartphone), we’ve got you covered with SMS access to Twitter, foursquare, NYC.gov (updating), NOAA (updating), MTA.info (updating), NY Times, NJ Transit, and Weather.com.
Save the phone number 368266 as DOTCOM, and text the domain name in to that number.
Here’s how to access each site with SMS:
Twitter.com: Text twitter to DOTCOM (368266) – This requires authorization on the web the first time: http://dotgo.com/res/twitter
NYC.gov: Text nyc to DOTGOV (368468) – Shelter information for now. We’re adding more as we can. (Texting nyc.gov to DOTCOM (368266) also works.)
NOAA.gov: Text noaa to DOTGOV (368468) – Latest update on the hurricane (location, wind speed, etc) plus the NOAA Hurricane Irene RSS feed. (Texting noaa.gov to DOTCOM (368266) also works.)
MTA.info: Text mta.info to DOTCOM (368266) - Provides subway status and arrival times, as well as LIRR. (MetroNorth is in the works.)
NJTransit.com: Text njtransit to DOTCOM (368266) – Works as “njtransit from to time(optional)”- ex. njtransit penn montauk 2pm.
NYTimes.com: Text nytimes to DOTCOM 368266 – Headlines and a bite of the story. Full story requires mobile data.
foursquare.com: Text foursquare to DOTCOM (368266) – Also requires authorization the first time – http://dotgo.com/res/foursquare (We obviously understand how important it will be to check in to the #hurricanpocalypse)
Weather.com: This also works for weather.com, but current weather is not super useful for up to the minute hurricane stuff. Text weather to DOTCOM (368266)
Stay safe!
The DOTGO Team
Now Live: DOTGO Forums
Posted: June 23rd, 2011Connect with the DOTGO community!
Our community forums are now available for all DOTGO users. You’ll find the forums under Support in the top-level navigation.
Forum sections are broken down as:
In the Texting with DOTGO section you’ll find support for using features sites like foursquare, as well as general topics for texting with DOTGO. In the Publishing section, we have support for our markup language CMRL, as well as for the newly launched DOTGO Publisher. And in the Reseller forum, you’ll find discussions about the Reseller Program and API.
We’re looking forward to connecting with you there!
foursquare SMS Powered by DOTGO
Posted: May 12th, 2011We’re big fans of foursquare here at DOTGO (just ask those of us in the middle of a DOTGO mayor war). So we’re thrilled to announce the availability of foursquare SMS. Built with CMRL and the foursquare API, anyone with a text messaging-capable phone can use foursquare SMS to explore their city.
To get started, visit our foursquare SMS page. First you’ll need to authorize your phone with foursquare. Then, just text foursquare to DOTCOM (368266). That’s it! You can now check in, search venues, remind yourself of your to-dos, and discover tips near you–all while (and perhaps most importantly) staying in the hunt for mayor at your favorite venue.
Here’s a few things you might want to know about using foursquare SMS:
1. Since text messaging doesn’t support GPS/location services (yet), searching for a venue and tips nearby are based on your last check-in location. If you’ve changed locations (i.e. changed cities), you can search a new location by replying 3 from the main menu. Under the check-in menu, you’ll see the option to search another location.
2. Several shortcuts are available. You can text any of the following shortcuts to DOTCOM (368266):
[NEW] foursquare at (place) [ex. 'foursquare at empire state building'] – One-text check-in! This shortcut will check you into the first search result found (in this example, the first search result for “empire state building”). The search is based on the location of your last check-in, and adding the street name or zip code to the search will help refine the results [ex. 'foursquare at starbucks hudson']. By performing the search on foursquare.com, you can find out which venue will most likely come up first in the search results when using this shortcut. This command checks you in publicly, but does not broadcast to Twitter or Facebook.
foursquare checkin (place) [ex. 'foursquare checkin starbucks'] — Drops you into either the venue listing so that you can check in or the venue search if there are multiple locations (i.e. Starbucks).
foursquare tips — Pulls up tips nearby from your friends, based on your last check in location.
foursquare profile — Pulls up your profile where you can do things like check out your mayorships, history, or badges.
foursquare todo — Pulls up your to do list.
foursquare reset all — Use to revoke your phone’s authorization (this will require you to re-register your phone with a new pin if you want to use foursquare SMS again).
If you forget the shortcuts, you can always find them by texting foursquare to DOTCOM (368266) and then replying 6 for help.
3. Right now foursquare SMS is only available in the US, but we’re working quickly to expand internationally. We’ll update our foursquare SMS page as international access becomes available.
If you have any feedback, questions, or problems, leave us a note in the forums, and please like us on Facebook!
Announcing DOTGO Publisher
Posted: April 8th, 2011A powerful new web-based text messaging platform.
We’re very excited to formally announce the launch of DOTGO Publisher. Built on top of CMRL, our powerful mobile markup language, DOTGO Publisher is a suite of web-based publishing tools that lets you effortlessly take advantage of text messaging.
DOTGO Publisher includes three new easy-to-use tools:
- Site Builder: Create and manage keywords, edit your SMS menu, and preview your site.
- Message Center: Schedule and send messages to your subscribers with ease.
- Analytics: Get detailed usage statistics and see every text message send to your site.
DOTGO Publisher’s Site Builder is available for free today to all registered DOTGO users, and upgrading to a Basic Account lets you take advantage of the Message Center and the newly redesigned Analytics. Broadcast messaging plans start at just $9.99 for 1000 messages a month, making DOTGO Publisher the most cost-effective way to broadcast text messages to your users.
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Social Media Week Wrap-Up
Posted: March 8th, 2011Now that Social Media Week has come to a close and we’re setting our sites on SXSW, here’s a wrap up of how the week played out.
We kicked off Social Media Week with a CMRL Workshop at Google on Monday. The session focused on how to use our XML-based markup language, CMRL, to develop text messaging services for any website, mobile app, or software. It was well attended and well received (thanks everyone!), and we met a lot of great people after the event.
We also had the pleasure of being a session sponsor at the Google Science and Technology Hub throughout Social Media Week.
And in case you weren’t able to tune in, here’s the full recording of the session hosted by our CEO and Co-Founder, Stefan Gromoll, courtesy of LiveStream.
As the week went on, we had the pleasure of attending many events at the numerous Social Media Week Content Hubs throughout the city at JWT: Hearst, the Red Bull Space, and the Paley Center for Media. Then we bookended the week by hosting another event, this time at the Business, Media & Communications Hub at JWT, which was more focused on mobile marketing strategy rather than technology.
The sold-out panel (again, thank you everyone!!) entitled “Cross Mobile Brand Strategy” featured several experts in the field of mobile brand strategy with Stefan (far left) moderating the panel (from left to right after Stefan):
- Kristin Volk – VP, Human Experience Strategy Director – MediaVest
- Mary Gail Pezzimenti – Executive Producer – Lucky Magazine at Conde Nast Publications
- Chi Modu – Brand Strategist – Diverse Insights
- Farrah Bostic – VP, Group Planning Director – Digitas
During the panel, we took the opportunity to create an interactive environment using the mobile phones of the audience members by setting up a way for participants to text in and join the conversation using DOTGO’s technology.
We’d like to thank our panelists, as they were absolutely amazing, and the attendees for participating in a very interesting, thought-provoking discussion. And most of all, we’d like to the organizers and volunteers of Social Media Week for providing such a fantastic platform and event for us to be a part of. We’re really looking forward to next year!
DOTGO’s NYC BigApps Submission – PLEASE VOTE!
Posted: February 14th, 2011When we heard New York City was hosting the NYC BigApps competition this year, we knew we couldn’t pass up a chance to help make the city more accessible to New Yorkers. Since we’re all about SMS for websites, we thought we would keep things simple, yet useful, and create a DOTGO site for NYC.gov.
To access the site, text “nyc” to DOTGOV (368468) and from there you can navigate to news from the city, information on alternate side parking, garbage and recycling collection, and more. Try it!
We hope you all find this useful, and would greatly appreciate your support in the form of a vote for our submission: VOTE HERE.
You can also access our submission from the simulator.
Thanks!
-Team DOTGO
CMRL Workshop at Google – Social Media Week NY
Posted: February 2nd, 2011We’re excited to announce that we’re hosting a second event as a part of Social Media Week 2011: Integrating Text Messages into Websites, Apps, and Other Software. Led by our CEO and Co-founder, Stefan Gromoll, the workshop, hosted at Google, will focus on how to use our XML-based markup language CMRL, the Concise Message Routing Language, to develop text messaging services for websites, mobile apps, and other software.
Integrating Text Messaging into Websites, Apps, and Other Software
Hosted at the Science and Technology Hub at Google (Map)
Monday, February 7, 3-5pm
Part of Social Media Week NYC 2011
RSVP (Free)
DOTGO is also a session sponsor at the Google Content Hub during Social Media Week. Check out the full line up of events happening at Google throughout the week: http://socialmediaweek.org/newyork/hub/science-technology/
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