OceanGram!

[Starshine]

Hey fellow x10'ers.

Has anyone ever gone to OceanGram?

When I am bored, I open a page to OG and await a "message in a bottle" ... some are pretty interesting, most are pretty stupid. But you can track messages you send out, or even send messages to friends.

Latest message to float to my screen :

I just checked four messages that I sent out a week ago and not one of them got picked up...how come that? Dec. 29/06
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It is a strange system. There are an awful lot of messages that seem to take almost a month to go to the next person. And often, even though they're delivered, no one will comment on it, but they just throw it back.
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so you can tell when they are thrown back in the tracking?
rhia 115-07 plot
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picked up and answered 2/2/07


What did you send or find?

 

[Chris Z]

that's very interesting..but what most people are gonna say is just hello or what's up, since it looks like a fairly new idea, so they're just gonna see if it works

 

[t2t2t]

Just sent a message:

Aye! We need more rum!

And just got a message:

Chuck Norris can divide by zero.

rick1639v3 1-14-07
abc lost plot

Seems kinda funny program

Edit:

To bad, I just had this Idea for a beer company promotion, just to find out that its been done.
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Story of my life. I am great at coming up with ideas, but crap at doing anything about it. If one could sell ideas I would be worth a lot more. UK
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Instead of sitting on your butts having ideas, why don't you research how to get them implemented?
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Inventors should realize that it takes a good deal of money to have their ideas manufactured and sold. There's original design work to be done, you have to get a UPC code, a design for your packaging, pay the agent to find, inspect, and handle the manufacturing concerns, and then there's shipping to pay and duties. But by far the worst expense is in marketing -- sometimes marketing costs are like a bottomless pit, where you continue to pour money into it and you don't sell as many as you thought. Selling your idea outright to a company often nets very little money for the inventor, so producing it independently is still your best bet. Some people have also become fantastically wealthy off of an invention they produced, so don't despair!
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So why not just continue to get ridiculously drunk night after night and pity yourself.
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don't forget to bang the ol lady...

Woah this thing is more random than 3 monkeys in a barrel!

 

[swirly]

i got one about a freakin like cat lovers society...and one that looked like someone was gonna commit suicide or something...

 

[Starshine]

Does anyone else hate wearing underwear?

I love going commando.

JM in MD
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Gee...thanks for sharing..now go away......
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3 hours and 58 minutes until 2007! Happy new year from michigan USA
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Hey already it's 1/11/07 and I'm still wearing my underwear!! central Florida
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Not thongs..OR 1-29-07
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Can't say that it really bothers me. I dislike thongs too. Horrid unattractive underwear.


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Yeah, its quite random. If you read what OceanGram is about : http://www.oceangram.com/about.htm ... You'll see that messages can be random, and can take a while to be found by someone else.
You can even have oceangram on your website. They offer a way to put the code on your site.

I may have to do that myself.

 

[Zenax]

Well all i have to say that is only women can make those comments

other than that this service seems .... "FUNKY!"

 

[Starshine]

Yes. It is quite a "funky" thing.
But I like it. I plan to put a link and make a page of it on my site ( which you can. Its a "Satellite" version. I think it would be pretty sweet. Another access point to connect with the ocean.

 

[Spartan Erik]

Hah I should get paid to put spam messages into these bottles.. (hey, not a bad way to promote hosting!)

 

[Starshine]

Hah I should get paid to put spam messages into these bottles.. (hey, not a bad way to promote hosting!)

I'd read up on their rules first. I tried to promote x10 ... and even put a tracking on the message, to see where it goes ... it was "removed" by the system. So, it may not be possible.

 

[Derek]

Pretty cool nice way to play around with bottles.

 

[Starshine]

Hah I should get paid to put spam messages into these bottles.. (hey, not a bad way to promote hosting!)

Look at #7 :

Rules of Conduct

It is a condition of your use of the messaging service and the Web Site that you do not:

1. Use this messaging service for any illegal purposes (or to solicit any illegal act);

2. Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the messaging service;

3. Send any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, or send any message that solicits gambling or prostitution or engage in any gambling or prostitution activity;

4. Send messages which violate or infringe upon the rights of others, including material which is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or which is protected by copyright, trademark, or other proprietary right, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or right holder.

5. Send messages which contains viruses, time bombs, trojan horses, cancelbots, worms, traps that may lead to becoming a victim to such components or devices or other harmful or deleterious components or devices;

6. Send defamatory, libelous, hateful, or harassing messages, information or material;

7. Send messages for commercial purposes or which contain advertising, promotion or marketing for commercial or non-commercial entities without obtaining a prior consent of us.

8. Use the messaging service of the Web Site for the purposes of sending duplicative messages, fraudulent content, or unsolicited commercial or non-commercial messages in the form of spam.

9. Try to gain unauthorized access to the messaging services.

10. Interfere with another individual's use and enjoyment of the Web Site's messaging services.

 

[Derek]

Lol doesn't he mean some other hosting Lol..

 

[papegay]

Thanks for the info, I'll try if out
Sogi