SFist: Another Textmarkular Update

Ariel Poler

Wed, 16 May 2007 16:30:33 -0800

Hello, I am the CEO of TextMarks and I LOVE how you are using our service! If you have any suggestions on how we could improve, please let us know. Thank you. Cheers, Ariel Poler ariel AT textmarks DOT com

Mike

Tue, 08 May 2007 17:00:29 -0800

24CASTROMARKOUT - 24 Divisadero - Castro & Market outbound (to Bayview) 24CASTROMARKIN - 24 Divisadero - Castro & Market inbound (to Pacific Heights)

Mike

Tue, 08 May 2007 16:46:44 -0800

304MARKETIN - 30 Stockton - 4th & Market inbound (to Caltrain) 3SUTTERPOWOUT - 3 Jackson - Sutter & Powell outbound (to Presidio Heights)

MattyMatt

Tue, 08 May 2007 16:45:07 -0800

Easier ... and slower.

Seth

Tue, 08 May 2007 16:40:26 -0800

I think calling 311 is a lot easier.

this guy

Tue, 08 May 2007 15:30:21 -0800

fudge, i f'd one up - I named "T Third 23rd and 3rd Outbound" T3RD23THIN which is the wrong direction. it should be T3RD23THOUT. I redirected the textmark to look up the inbound (sunnydale) times for that stop/textmark. but i want the OUTBOUND times for that stop, so if anyone could add that, i'd appreciate it.

this guy

Tue, 08 May 2007 15:21:40 -0800

cool, thanks, got it. now officially active: 22 Fillmore - 20th and 3rd Inbound: 2220TH3RDIN 22 Fillmore - 16th and Mission Outbound: 2216MISSIONOUT 22 Fillmore - Haight and Fillmore Outbound: 22FILLHAIGHTOUT 22 Fillmore - Church and Duboce Outbound: **Wouldn't let me add, too many on my acct** T Thrid - 23rd and 3rd Outbound (Castro): T3RD23THIN T Third - Powell Station Inbound (Sunnydale): TPOWELLIN I think i can edit them if i did it wrong, so if anyone checks my work here and it is wrong, let me konw an d i'll change it. if someone could add the 22 Fillmore Duboce and Church Outbound stop, i'd be your best friend for a month.

MattyMatt

Tue, 08 May 2007 13:50:39 -0800

Sorry, that link should've pointed here. The instructions are: Here's how it works: you sign up with TextMarks, and then show TextMarks the website that you want them to send to your phone. In the above example, we grabbed the text from a PDA-friendly prediction, which you can't get to from NextMuni site but you can hack into thanks to RescueMuni. (You can also use Skot9000's awesome NextMuni hack, if RescueMuni's isn't working.) Then, you just create a keyword -- in the above example, 2216HARRISONIN is the keyword, representing a prediction for the 22 stop at 16th and Harrison, inbound. And then you're done! Just text your keyword to TextMarks at 41411, and in a few seconds, you'll get a reply with your arrival times.

this guy

Tue, 08 May 2007 13:47:47 -0800

uhh.... more detailed instructions please - following the links the only "directions" i can find are, paraphrasing: go set it up. i tried at the textmark site but when i preview the message, i can't get it to capture the predictions, just random other bits of the nextbus prediction page. (and yes, i'm trying to use bracketing.) that skot9000 guy did do a lot of work setting it up, but i can't store a bunch of ready-to-go texts for the future using his system because i'd have no way of knowing whether "Nextbus 685" or "Nextbus 715" or whatever is the particular nextbus prediction i need.