Google SMS Channel

Google India has released a new service called Google SMS channel. This service lets you connect to all kind of news services, blog updates, cricket score, rss reader sync features at one single stop. While you can create any public channel, you can also create private channels for your family members and frieds. All you have to go to http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels link and create a nick name for you and enter your mobile no along with the name of the channel. Once created your friends and family member can subscribe to this channel and can send the messages to the channel without paying anything to the carrier services. You can also subscribe to this channel using web or mobile. While using mobile sign up you will have to give your mobile no. to proceed further.

SMS Commands
Almost everything that you can do on the website can be done over SMS. Detailed in the table below is the list of SMS commands and what they do.

All you have to do is to send SMS to 9870807070 with following content


on : Start receiving messages posted on channel

off : Stop receiving messages posted on channel

delete : Delete a channel that you created

send : Send message to channel

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