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Will reminder service Remime make me a nicer guy?

Written on May 21, 2008 – 5:51 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

You know, forgetting birthdays is such an embarrassing phenomenon that I just can’t stop blogging about it. I’m a nice guy, really, and pretty social. But when you’re a friend of mine, I just tend to forget your birthday on the day itself. So I’m on this ongoing quest of finding THE perfect birthday reminder. I’ve tried Time Machiner, Skype, Plaxo, Hyves, Hallmark and have several yearly Google Calendar reminders. Yet there are days I still fail. I’m sure it’s not just me, so here we go again with yet another reminder service: Remime.com.

The three guys who have developed Remime, experience the same problem as me: they suck at remembering dates. They live in different countries and have built the service by extensive usage of Skype. So what’s the result?

remime

Remime asks you to add important dates, which they will store. You can then specify how you want to be reminded and when. Also, you can buy gifts (there’s your business model). Sounds simple, right? Well, it is. And simplicity is good. Just look at the success of Twitter. Yet I believe Remime is a bit too simple. I want more! What about SMS integration, syncing services with other online calendars and other ways to keep with those oh-so important dates?

Luckily, the team from Remime promises to include some of these functions. They might not realize it, but those new features will probably life-savers. Otherwise it’s just another reminder service which a desperate birthday-forgetting type like me will just skip.

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Time Machiner: I will never forget a birthday anymore

Written on March 29, 2008 – 1:41 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Yeah! From now on I’ll never forget a birthday of any of my friends and relatives. You know the awkward feeling after you’ve just discovered you have been with somebody in the room for 30 minutes without congratulating him with yet another year. Say goodbye to it, because now you can just paste your birthday calender in the Time Machiner:

Time Machiner

Moreover, you can also send reminders to yourself. Our promise things to you future self: “Hi, two years ago you promised me that by now, you would date Kate Moss”.

Of course there were some other ways to do this as well, yet the amazing thing about this mini app is that it’s build in just 4 hours for only 50 dollars. This seems to be some sort of new trend, building tools and apps in a ridiculously short time. See Tweetburner for example. Michiel Sikkes and Bob Jansen have build this improved Linkblip imitation in just 24 hours.

See the video blog of Jon Wheatly who explains the whole process. He had the idea and Paul Fraser developed it.