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Review: Tangling With Twitter -- 8 Alternative Services: Page 4 of 5



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•  Introduction

•  3jam

•  Dodgeball

•  Jaiku

•  Joopz

•  Jyngle

•  Loopnote


•  Pinger

•  Swarm


•  Image Gallery

Jyngle is more for soccer moms than the slacker set. It offers more formal, and therefore less spontaneous, one-to-many messaging. Jyngle is "read-only" -- there aren't any replies or conversations. That makes it great for getting the word out to a group in a way that's a vast improvement over the old telephone tree -- rehearsal's off, practice has been rescheduled, read chapters 3 and 4 for Monday. The service supports SMS or voice (but not both for the same message). But if you're looking for a collaboration tool, Jyngle isn't it.

Jyngle

Jyngle: Paste text into the box in the middle of the Jyngle's screen and it will be delivered as a voice message.

Loopnote, like Jyngle, feels like it's intended for adults rather than teen-agers, and it requires similar premeditation: Everybody in a message loop, er, group, must have an account set up on Loopnote, and as the owner of a group you have to manually add each member before they can receive messages.

Loopnote

Loopnote: Loopnote updates the classic telephone calling tree by controlling of has authority to post messages to a group.



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