Even though we’re all about sharing SMSes with friends, we don’t want you to receive SMSes through us, if you don’t want to.
You can now send DND to 99015 54321 to stop all (Read ALL) SMSes from Vakow!
And later, when you change your mind, which we hope you do, you can send DND OFF to 99015 54321 to get back to normal and enjoy a life full of excitement and entertainment.
Here’s the link: http://www.vakow.com/dnd/ (We think it’s only polite….sigh)
From getsatisfaction’s website:
Get Satisfaction is open, transparent, and free. You’re free to ask, free to answer, and free to start a new conversation. Everyone is invited and encouraged to participate: companies, employees, customers — anyone with an opinion, an answer, or something to say.
…and we like that. We look forward to having our users post their queries, get their queries answered by other users (and us), suggest new features and discuss Vakow! in open.
You can still mail us at support [at] vakow [dot] com for customer support.
Vakow’s getsatisfaction page: http://getsatisfaction.com/vakow
We have made the registration process lightening fast. Just send CREATE <desired username> to 99015 54321 (e.g. create kowboy) and bang! - your account gets created. We’ll SMS you the password that you’ll need to sign in on the website.
You can start posting your SMSes to Vakow! and ask your friends to start “following” you (they can send FOLLOW <Your Username> to 99015 54321) or Invite them (by sending Invite <your friends phone numbers> to 99015 54321) from your mobile phone.
For all mobile commands, visit the mobile cheat sheet.
Another little thing for twitterers who can now choose to post everything they post on Vakow! to twitter as well. Don’t forget, Vakow! is the best way to twitter from mobile in India.
This could have easily been called Version 2.0 of Vakow! but it sounded too lame. Even with a ”2.0″.
Having struggled with the nomenclature for about 30 seconds and rejecting every suggestion that came up, we decided to cut corners and give you the real gravy - quick and fast.
Here’s what you’ll see in Vakow! now:
No requirement of +2 score to send SMS to your subscribers followers
Now we’ll send out SMSes to all your subscribers followers as soon as you post them. This will enable our users to post a variety of content ranging from a random thought, a movie review, a stock update or an sms forward that will be forwarded to his or her subscribers followers.
Go on, post something to your blog >>
Free Personal SMS to any phone in India
You can send personal SMSes (upto 140 chars) to any mobile phone in India, for FREE! All the SMSes that you send or receive through Vakow! are stored in your Personal Messages Inbox, and when you use it, the phone numbers get added to your address book automatically.
Receive up to 100 SMSes per day now
Now you can receive upto 100 SMSes from Vakow! per day - upto 50 SMSes from the people and tags that you are subscribed to follow and upto 50 personal SMSes from your friends.
Of course, if you don’t want to receive or want to receive less SMSes, appropriate controls are provided in your SMS Settings section.
Non-registered users can receive upto 5 SMSes per day. This should be great for sending those “how you doing mom?” messages (you know moms don’t sign up very easily).
Comment from mobile
Now you can also comment on any SMS that you receive from your friend from your mobile phone the moment you receive it.
Here’s the format: Send c username your comment to 99015 54321
e.g. To comment on kowboy’s latest sms, I’ll send c kowboy i like ur sms to 99015 54321
Simplified Mobile Commands
To post an SMS now you can just send it to our 10 digit non-premium number: 99015 54321 (without adding ‘p’ to it).
Earlier, to post: p i love vakow to 99015 54321
Now, to post: i love vakow to 99015 54321
Also, instead of “Subscribe/Sub”, we’ll be using “Follow”, which has become a sort of worldwide acceptable term for the action.
For other mobile commands, please have a look at the mobile cheat sheet.
PS: All previous mobile commands will continue to work as well.
And, we have made a bunch of design and usability improvements that we sincerely hope you’ll notice and appreciate. 
Like always, our email line is open to you, please please please do write to us at feedback at vakow dot com with your feedback, suggestions, queries and complaints.
Have fun!
Are you one of those people who cringe every time you have to send an SMS to a shortcode? I am. Especially since twitter launched it’s Indian shortcode (5566511), because 3 Rs/- a twitter…ya rite.
Anyway, since we have a longcode (99015 54321) of our own and Twitter has an excellent API, we thought it’d be nice (and cheap) if we could post to twitter via Vakow!’s 10 digit non-premium number.
And here’s how:
Then onwards, use our magic twit command to post your messages to twitter. e.g. Send twit twittering via vakow.com. how cheap is that. to 99015 54321.
And because it’s a 10 digit number it only costs as per your regular SMS plan (no premium costs involved).
We’d really like to know how much money we saved you (if at all). Please do send us your feedback (if not the cheques) to twitter@vakow.com
PS: uh..oh..we’re not associated with twitter etc.
We have just launched the Vakow! application for Facebook which allows you to share SMSes with your Facebook friends. The way it works is fairly simple - you add the application (by visiting this link) and start sharing cool SMSes with your friends (look for the red “forward it” link).
When you share an SMS it goes as a facebook notification, email or SMS depending on if the recipient has not installed the application, installed the application or installed the application and configured his or her account with Vakow!.
If you want to receive the SMSes on your phone, please do sign up with Vakow! after you add the application. It’s FREE and takes like 30 seconds.
The application also displays featured SMSes on your profile which your friends can read and share with their friends.
You could already share SMSes with your Orkut friends through Vakow!, with this Facebook application SMS Forwards have become even more “social”.
Now you can display links to your profiles on various social networks (Orkut, Facebook, Hi5 et al) or your personal blogs or websites along with your SMS Forwards collection on Vakow!
Let your Vakow! friends know of your presence on the other places on the web.
If you’re already a member visit your Settings page now.
Also, there is a one more way to browse SMSes now - Most Forwarded this Week. These are the SMSes that our users have shared the most with their friends in last 7 days. It’s like those music charts.
Because now our users can send SMS Forwards to their Orkut Friends right from Vakow!
We’ll do the hard work of fetching your friends list and posting the SMS to the scrapbooks of all the friends selected by you. Learn more about this feature here >>
We are, as always but slightly more this time, super excited about this feature.
This one clearly goes in Why-Didn’t-We-Do-This-Earlier dept.
This has been our most requested feature so far.
Now when you use ‘Forward this SMS’, you’ll also see all the contacts (phone numbers and email addresses) you have forwarded an SMS to.
You can assign name to them by clicking on ‘edit’. Give same name to multiple contacts (phone number and email address of the same person) to club them together.
Sharing SMSes is even easier now!
See the screenshot:
To see what’s new at Vakow, visit http://www.vakow.com/new-features/
How many times has it happened that there exists a personal SMS in your phone that you don’t want to delete just because…you know…it’s nice!
Or, sometimes it could be more than just nice. It could be of an extreme personal nature - almost too risky to keep on the phone but too important to be deleted.
And, to add to the dilemma, the ’sender’ may ask you to reproduce it at any time!
“Remember that SMS I sent you?”.
Save yourself from embarrassments. Start storing your personal SMSes on Vakow!. It’s easy to store, easy to retrieve and privacy is assured.
PS: It’s also great for those pesky lengthy bank account numbers, PNR numbers etc., or even shopping list.