
SMS is incredible for its ubiquity: anywhere, and with any phone, you can send and receive SMS messages. I wanted to bring some of the power of Siri to the 99%! But Siri is only available to iPhone 4S users.
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Being able to ask questions and get the answer, and not only a series of links, is quite remarkable.

What was the inspiration for building WolframSMS? You can send a variety of questions, such as “Where was Obama born?” or “Who was the third president of the United States?” to the WolfraSMS number and it will send you back the answer in SMS form. WolfraSMS is-very simply-a way to ask the Wolfram|Alpha computational search engine questions, by sending a simple SMS. Follow Martin on Twitter and read his blog here. WolfraSMS is the very first app Martin built with Twilio – quite impressive. Martin is the co-founder and COO of SocialFolders, a service to organize your social content in the cloud. What did you find most interesting about your Facebook report? Share with us in the comments.Martin Pannier was looking for a way to bring the power of search similar to Siri to a wider audience, why should iPhone 4s owners have all the fun? What he built is WolfraSMS: a simple SMS app that harnesses the search capabilities of Wolfram|Alpha, powered by Twilio. We do not sell, rent, or lease your information to third parties. Information about our users is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others.

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The report is fun, informative and worth a look. The color-coded friend network map has quite a few combination choices for viewing the data. The report is separated into 21 categories with subset data in each category. The report also noted how many pictures and status updates I’ve posted in the past year, and which have received the most Likes and comments. The application starts off with some basic info like who has the most mutual friends, the various countries my friends are in and the fact that I was born on a Wednesday. What kind of data you ask? Well, I now know that 60.8% of my friends are married, my most common friend name is Ryan, my average post length is 4.75 words and my biggest commenter is my Mother. The report uses a Facebook app to gain access to your Facebook data and presents it in a neat visually rich fashion. The powerful computational knowledge engine known as Wolfram Alpha added a new feature called Facebook Report.
