Ask and answer questions via your mobile phone using Mosio

Posted on November 1, 2007 at 3:11 pm

Ever had a question while out in a bar with your friends or while you’re at a baseball game, but can’t get to the Internet to look it up on Google? Or maybe you have a question you’d prefer to have answered by a human like “Who’s better looking, Cameron Diaz or Angelina Jolie?” Well, if you don’t have your computer with you on hand, you probably have a cell phone, right?

In that case, you can use Mosio to ask a question directly from your cell phone to a community of real people and get an answer back fairly soon all for free! Of course, you’ll still have to pay for incoming and outgoing text messages charges, but it’s probably worth it if you really want to know the answer to something that bad!

Here’s how it works: You sign up and register your phone, then you invite a couple of people to your Qniverse (question universe) and when you’re mobile and they are online, they help answer your questions and when you’re online and they are mobile, you can help answer their questions. You can either invite your friends or you can invite other people already joined on the site. They suggest you answer a few questions yourself and then invite those people to be in your Qniverse.

According to Mosio’s web site, you can use the service in the following scenarios:

Settle a bet at the bar.
Get helpful info about restaurants, shops, products or services.
Answer literally any question: fact, fiction or straight up silly.
Ask Mosio anything!

Here’s what a question looks like on the Mosio web site. A maximum of four answers are sent back to you as text messages:

Mosio also has a couple of really useful and interesting apps that you can use from your mobile phone. You can send text messages to different email addresses and get back responses for specific information:

1. find@mosio.com – Text the business name or category and zip code to get the address, phone number, etc. i.e sushi, 70122

2. remind@mosio.com – I really liked this one because you can use it to quickly setup a reminder if you’re not near your computer. You can setup reminders for dates in the future or by time, such as in 10 mins or 5 hours. i.e. Send a text message with “5m, slap myself” will send a message in 5 minutes saying “slap myself”.

3. birthday@mosio.com – Next time you’re at a dinner party and someone tells you their birthday, simply send a quick message to birthday@mosio.com like 10/28 Aseem and you will get a message on October 28th that it’s Aseem’s birthday! Pretty sweet!

They have a couple of more fun ones like 8ball@mosio.com which will give you a Yes or No answer to your question and a fortune@mosio.com which will read off some ancient Chinese fortunes. You can also get the top new headlines by sending a message to APTopNews@mosio.com, etc. You can see the full list here.

Overall, a pretty cool service for anyone who has a question, but only has a mobile phone (and whose friends don’t know anything either)! Enjoy!

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2 Responses to “Ask and answer questions via your mobile phone using Mosio”

Keith Dsouza said on : November 1st, 2007 at 7:56 pm

Nice find, the features are interesting and looks it will be a vastly used service as you are when you are stranded somewhere such services will definitely be helpful.

ReviewSaurus said on : November 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 pm

Don;t you really think that if you are feeling that you really want to know about something then probably you’ll ask it by calling your friend ?

That will be fast…isn’t it?