YouMail and 4INFO

Have you heard of YouMail?  It's a rather spiffy service that lets you customize the voicemail message on your cell phone by caller.  So if your grandma is calling from the old country, you can set it up so that when she calls, she hears a voicemail message from you in polish, just for her!  Or better yet, if you've got an ex who just hasn't taken the hint - set up your phone so that they get a message from you asking them to back off, and then hangs up on them without allowing them to leave you a message!  There are lots of other bells and whistles too.

What does that have to do with 4INFO?  Well, YouMail can send you a text message when somebody has left you a voicemail.  We're helping out with that piece, and throwing some advertising on the message at the same time, which lets YouMail keep the service free.  Mashable wrote a bit about it yesterday, as did IntoMobile.  Although people tend to dislike advertising, they do like getting stuff for free, and if the ad is for something they want - well, that's just frosting on the cake of this cool service.

Posted by 4INFO Kirsten