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As we mentioned last month, we’re very focused on DOTGO’s international expansion, and are excited to announce the next country we’re launching in – Paraguay! We’ve partnering with Tigo Paraguay to bring DOTGO’s service to all of their subscribers there.
Details about DOTGO’s service in Paraguay on Tigo can be found here.
Be sure to follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook to hear where we expand to next!
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:
We 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! 
We’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!
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!
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!
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:
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.
Get Started with DOTGO Publisher
Now 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):
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!
When 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
On Monday, January 10, we presented at the New York Tech Meetup. It was the first meetup of 2011, and it was, by all accounts, spectacular! Alongside other amazing NY-based companies, like Adstruc and Vyou, we demoed our technology and upcoming web product to 1000+ people.
Once Stefan and I took the stage, we had 5+ minutes to explain CMRL, show off our soon-to-be-launched Product Suite, and have a little fun with the crowd.
Photo credit: noneckWhile I explained the basics of DOTGO, Stefan wowed the crowd with his live-coding prowess, and in a matter of minutes we had the nytm.org SMS site up and running. The BCS Championship game was the same night as the meetup so we decided to set up the nytm.org site with a poll and let the audience get in on the action.
While the audience had (a little too much) fun with the poll, we got down to business and gave a quick tour of our upcoming web product, the DOTGO Publishing Suite. While we anticipate opening up the product for public beta this week, you can catch a glimpse of the product and the demo in its entirety in the video posted down below.
nytechmeetup on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free
We would like to thank Nate and Brandon and the NYTM community for their support and kind words, and we look forward to the amazing things that will come out of the NY tech scene this year.
–Michelle DeForest
DOTGO had an incredible year in 2010 and is closing the year out with a big product launch on the horizon.
Growth has been phenomenal, and adoption has been even better than we expected. In November and December alone, we sent and received as many messages as we did in all of 2009. After securing a Series A round from Epic Ventures and TomorrowVC (the venture fund of Google’s Eric Schmidt) last spring, the DOTGO team grew to eight, with two more scheduled to join us this coming spring, and we are still looking to hire. In September, we moved into a new office in SoHo. By all accounts, 2011 is shaping up to be a great year.
In fact, we won’t be wasting any time in 2011 and will be launching a new product suite on January 11. The product suite will include several tools that will make DOTGO even easier to use than it already is and will introduce new broadcast capabilities with a very competitive pricing structure. With this new product suite, we will be better able to better serve our clients, which range from small businesses through large media companies and resellers.
If you are interested in being a launch partner, get in touch with us at contact@dotgo.com.
Thanks and Happy New Year!
-The DOTGO Team