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Notifo (YC W10) adds Google Voice SMS notifications

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This is specifically for the iphone. The Android Google Voice app supports direct push...

Anyways nice work!

yes, iPhone for now.. working on other platforms. But, as you point out, GV is already integrated with Android platforms.

Nice, but I wonder how this is different from forwarding all your Google Voice SMS & Voicemails to your gmail and then using Boxcar iPhone app to receive pop up notifications of new emails?

Sounds interesting and potentially better then the set up I have now on my iPhone?

There are a few differences, but the main one is that this feature is specifically for GV SMS, so when you open the notification you can go straight to the conversation on the Google Voice site in Safari, whereas (as far as I can tell) Boxcar gives just the subject and body of the email when you forward all your email to it.

Cool. Yeah Boxcar does not take you to your Google Voice page. Rather it's pop ups display sender & message for SMS(s) though not for GV Voicemail. To read the transcription or listen to the voicemail I have to open the iPhone mail app and read it within the new mail received.

Maybe you can add the transcription within the popup? Would save me step in having to go into my mail client.

What about voicemail transcriptions? These are sent by a slightly different address.

yes, working on adding support for voicemail alerts and transcriptions as well. coming soon! watch the blog for updates :)

Services on top of Prowl have been doing this in the exact same manner for quite some time. Glad to see a service like Notifo supporting this though. It has a somewhat nicer interface than the Prowl app.

Notifo logotype reminded me of my old, stalled notification project - http://nodehub.com/ (not saying anything, they are pretty generic after all)

Well, this is totally not relevant to non-U.S users, but great to see notifo progressing. This is one app I genuinely like.

You know what's missing? Google wave and email notifications.

how so? i have several international friends that have GV accounts to get a US number. one was actually a beta tester of this feature. maybe i am misunderstanding you?

GV does not work internationally, does it? When I log in, I get redirected to a FAQ page with "Coming Soon".

Hmm, not sure how they got their accounts setup. I'll ask around and ping you if you like. Anyone here know?

Perhaps they logged in through a proxy?

Wouldn't this cause me to get 2 alerts instead of 1 (notifo alert followed by SMS alert)?

GV currently doesn't send actual SMS to your phone when you receive a GVSMS. And, since part of the point of GV is to be a free SMS service, they don't want to defeat the purpose for their user by sending them a real one.

They do, however, offer the option of SMS for voicemails.

EDIT: Ah, yes. Thanks to jackowayed I see that they do offer actual SMS. Well, the main advantage here is that it keeps it free. I also don't have an unlimited SMS plan, and several people were asking for this feature on Notifo (including myself), so here it is!

Yes they do. http://pic.danieljackoway.com/04_18_2010_16:16:07.png Just check that box.

But I still really like this--to the extent that I was working on writing the exact same thing before he released this--because I only have 200 SMS/month on my plan, and I don't want to pay the exorbitant fees to get unlimited.

This is specifically for the iphone. The Android Google Voice app supports direct push...

Anyways nice work!

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