GoPingMe Launched
Tags: GoPingMe, social network, software 2.0, Twitter, Web 2.0

I just came across a new interactive reminder service that called GoPingMe. With this type of service, a user will not miss any important social event, appointment, meeting, task and etc. As GoPingMe said, this system is their personal choice of trusted system for remembering important tasks and events. After a user signing up for the application, she can type the message, and has the options to add tag, set time for the reminder, all by setting up a “pester ping” that to be sent to her mobile device and email account at a preset certain time and date. In addition, a user is allowed to cancel the message by turning the ping off from the system.
With the motto of “What *should* you be doing,” it does not functions in the same manner as Twitter, especially all the messages are being served as the reminders rather than telling friends on what you’re doing right now. In short, it’s an inversion of Twitter, but provides several social features that allowed users to share their pings, and use the pings to link-up with each other.
GoPingMe is a Web application that built on Ruby on Rails framework. It was founded by a software development consultancy firm that called Zetetic LLC.


August 21st, 2007 at 11:35 pm
I fail to see the niche they are targeting here. Isn’t this the role of programs such as Outlook? And how comfortable users would be to share their calendars with the world? I guess that’s the case since we are talking about web 2.0 here.