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We’ve shared how we work hard to improve our service.  We also strive to serve you better—offering you better features, better usability, better service, and better ways for you to express yourself in your beats.  Don’t just take our word for it though!  We’d like to show you what we have added for version 0.5 of sgBEAT.

This entry is second in a 5-part series reflecting on our past year.

Richer Links to Twitter/Facebook/Plurk.

We’ve enhanced our links to these external services by adding MMS support, maps, directed beats and qualifiers. ‘Nuff said, I guess pictures speak a thousand words (no pun intended :P).  Check out what happens when you send an MMS to sgBEAT with 3 accounts linked!

Settings that reflect your linked social networks:

Your MMS update on Twitter:

Your MMS update on Plurk:

Your MMS update on Facebook:

Beat Roulette.

With all the hype about Chatroulette and Omegle, we decided to see how fast we could come up with a similar anonymous chat service for you guys using SMS. Voila, Beat Roulette was born within a week, quickly growing to over 180 users, with over 1200 pairings made and over 16000 anonymous beats sent! Stay tuned for a Beat Roulette v2.0 as we incorporate new ideas and feedback to improve this service.  

The Beat Roulette poster:

More outgoing SMS.

In this past year, we’ve delivered more than 220,000 beats and tweets via SMS to your phones ! We’re also prototyping new innovative ways to get more SMSes to your phone for free (Rockstars, you’ve seen some of this already), so you never have to worry about missing out on anything happening while on the go. Wait for the news once we enable it for all.  

Many existing features.

Oh, yes, if this is your first time reading about sgBEAT, all these features above were introduced in v0.5. They are in addition to what we already have had in our previous 4 milestones: Facebook/Plurk/Twitter links, visual MMS beats, appending your location in map beats, poll beats, Chinese language beats, trending topics, etc.  

Location beats to show where you are:

Poll beats to get opinions from the community:

Visual beats to share what you see:

Trends so you know what people are talking about:

Don’t believe us? Sign up for sgBEAT yourself and give it a spin!

Yours,
The sgBEAT Team

P.S.  Here’s a sneak peak at what’s coming soon.

• Link your Google Buzz account
• Facebook updates to your phone (“reverse Facebook link”)
• Plurk updates to your phone (“reverse Plurk link”)
• Re-enabling our MMS to number without telco lag