We’ve added a new document describing “Subscriptions under DOTGO” to our documentation section. This document describes how to set up “subscriptions” or “alerts” on a one-off or regularly-scheduled basis, or “on update,” when new content becomes available. Check it out at
http://dotgo.com/support/documentation/doc0007.1.0/doc.pdf
5 months agoWe are proud to announce that DOTGO is up and running.
DOTGO is a brand new way to send and receive information by cell-phone text messaging. You can use DOTGO to access your favorite companies, organizations, or web sites. Just send a text message starting with an internet domain name to the phone number DOTCOM (368266)—or to one of the phone numbers DOTEDU (368338), DOTGOV (368468), DOTNET (368638), or DOTORG (368674) as appropriate.
You can try it now on your mobile phone in three simple steps:
1. Compose a new text message to the phone number 368266, which spells out “D-O-T-C-O-M” on most mobile-phone keypads.
2. Type the internet domain name “cnn’ as the body of the message.
3. Send the message. You should receive a response within a few seconds.
In this case, the response is a list of news topics from cnn.com. Reply with the text message “1” to select the first topic, “Top Stories.” You should again receive a response within a few seconds—in this case, a list of stories within “Top Stories” from cnn.com. Now reply again with the text message “1” to select the first story, “2” to select the second story, etc.
As another example, text “nytimes” to the phone number DOTCOM (368266). In this case, the response is a list of news stories from nytimes.com. You can reply to browse the stories as in the previous example.
Many services also accept additional input, allowing you to specify exactly what information you are seeking. For example, text “wikipedia dog” to the phone number DOTORG (368674) to learn about dogs from wikipedia.org. Or text “weather” + your zip code to the phone number DOTCOM (368266) to get the latest weather forecast for your area from weather.com. Or text “ezipsky” + your zip code + something in the night sky (like the name of a planet, star, or constellation) to the phone number DOTCOM (368266) to get up-to-the-minute instruction on how to see a celestial object from ezipsky.com. (This one works best at night.) You might want to try a few of these examples on your mobile phone now.
Check us out at DOTGO.com. We’re excited about our new service, and we hope you will be too.
6 months ago