Remember how Google decided to play a little trick on their users by offering a tool that allowed people to change time – specifically with setting emails to send to the past? Although I’m sure none of us fell for it (wink wink), but the idea still seemed brilliant. That said, what if you can set a time and date to send an email in the future?
Well, you can with Sendible! I stumbled across the tool and decided to do a ‘test’ email before I actually signed up to use the service. After a successful test run, I wanted to see what else the ‘messaging sender manager’ had to offer.
Sendible not only enables setting emails to send in the future, but lets their users update their Facebook and Twitter statuses, schedule birthday reminders for Facebook friends, maintains a contacts list and calendar with alerts, and allows users to send SMS messages for free – even internationally. Sendible also allows for blog post updating. The most interesting feature Sendible offers is “My Ads.” Users or advertisers can take this opportunity to create relevant ads that will be sent with messages via email, SMS and through social networks such as Friendster, Myspace, Facebook, Hi5 and Orkut. Those who use this service can track their ads through keywords and messaging types.
Buzz Meter Ranking: 4 out of 4 Buzz Bees
Positive: The idea of being able to write an email and have it self-sent at a particular time is great! I believe this would lessen some stress for people with continuous deadlines. The reminders are also helpful, especially since they provide a link to send e-birthday cards!
Negative: The one downside I do found is only Blogger account holders can update their blogs. What about WordPress users?
Conclusion: Sendible is awesome. Again, I love tools that offer that ‘one-stop-shop’ kind of service. I’ll be honest though; I’m not that big on Twitter and often find myself using Plurk more. Hopefully Sendible will be able to integrate more social networking tools (such as blogging/micro-blogging sites), since it is still in beta. Overall, great concept and great tool!
Sendible sounds awesome, and I plan to use this for their SMS and Twitter capabilities!
Just two quick notes: Outlook lets you delay the sending of a message…but it requires you to be signed onto Outlook. So it’s not great if you’re traveling. But I’m sure the reason why they don’t let you schedule blog posts in WP is because that feature is built-in ;-).
Thanks for all these reviews, Marinel–loving it!
Jared – Thank you for stopping by and I’m glad you’re planning to use Sendible. I’d like to know your feedback!
You’re also correct about WP! The ability to access all of those sites in one place makes Sendible so enticing, which is why I’m rooting for the addition of WP. =)