New York bar goers will be having disjointed text conversations with other like minded singles soon. Time2flirt allows people to flirt, via SMS, with others in the same bar, without revealing their phone number. Time2flirt is all the rage in the UK; it is expected to hit New York City as early as spring.

From their site:

In four quick steps you can be sending messages back and forward to anyone you see in the bar!

• Send a text message containing a key word to a designated central number. A reply text message comes back giving you a unique user number.
• Show this text to the party host and claim a Time2Flirt badge for the night – a bright, easily identifiable number for sticking on your clothes.
• From now on you can text people merely by sending a message that contains the number of the person you want to send it to, to the designated Time2Flirt number. e.g to send a text to person wearing badge 27, you would send a text saying “27 u look like a texy person”
• message. The receiver of the message will know the playing number of the sender but no real mobile numbers are ever exchanged.

From this point forward it’s up to you! You’ll be totally in control of your messaging, choosing who you text with and when you want to stop. When the night’s over, time2flirt stops and your phone will get a rest!

Get your texting thumb ready! If you need some help, pre-program a few lame pick-up lines into your phone; you’ll be the life of the party…

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Sprint PCS will start offering an SMS like service soon. It’s about time, I know of at least one customer who dropped their service due to Sprint’s poor SMS implementation, which requires logging into the Sprint website to compose messages.

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Killer bees? No. Apparently there have been several incidents where crowds of teenagers swarm suburban parties in Australia. Using SMS to communicate, the swarms can sometimes consist of over a hundred people. A teenager died as a result of one of these incidents. On another occasion, police were the target of bottle and rock throwing by hundreds of gatecrashers. Parents are taking this threat seriously by hiring bouncers to keep out the uninvited. The Queensland Police Service has some helpful hints on how to throw a safe party.

My only question: What’s a Schoolie?

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According to Gizmodo, Jeff Pulver’s Free World Dialup is working with Vonage to make their Wi-Fi phone compatible with the Vonage network. This would allow Free World Dialup users to make calls to any phone number anywhere they can get a Wi-Fi connection.