Although North American mobile plans generally come with an email to SMS gateway, mobile operators in many other countries do not offer this service as an integrated part of their offering, which makes it difficult to use my SMS on Sale contribution to Zen Cart. One solution is to use Twitter to generate the SMS message. Instructions on integrating the requisite Twitter API call into SMS on Sale are provided in the SMS on Sale help page.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
The magic of free
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely says free things have a bewitching power over us. Just read the free 
excerpt from his new book Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. And if you want to read further, you can read Professor Ariely’s complete academic paper describing experiments he did to learn more about human behavior in this area (warning: here be math).
Dan Bricklin did a very interesting interview with Professor Ariely, in which he discusses some of these ideas. Professor Ariely also maintains his own blog.
