Someday Cafe's 'wiffiti' screen: boon or bane?

[ron_newman]

Last week, the Someday Cafe installed a plasma video screen which they call a Wiffiti board. The idea is, you send it a short text message from your cellphone, and it displays that message on the screen, alongside many other people's messages. It's an experiment by a Davis Square company called LocaModa.

Some people don't seem to like it at all. Join in on the discussion here and here.

Comments

how about non-cellphone users?

[ron_newman]

Is it possible to send text messages from e-mail or from a web form?

(I don't own a cellphone and don't have any plans to get one in the near future.)

Re: how about non-cellphone users?

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

That's a good question. My answer is that it's probably possible. You should ask on the little tech support box on their website, here (http://www.wiffiti.com). Let us know!

Re: how about non-cellphone users?

[ron_newman]

I tried to use this Verizon Wireless form to send it a text message:

https://www.vtext.com/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp

putting 87884 as the Send To: field.

but I get this error message: "Send To address is invalid. Please check the length of the number."

I know nothing about the world of cellphones and text messaging. What am I doing wrong here?