I'll have to give up my rarely-used mobile email and (real, not WAP) web access because I'm ditching my expensive cell phone service for a prepaid. It occurred to me that it would probably be easier and less annoying to do my mobile data-gathering via text message anyway. Google SMS is a great start, but I'm hoping that I'll have time to roll my own mobile concierge, probably via an AIM Bot.

Message bot features that I'd like to have:

• retrieve amazon wish list items
• look up addresses/phone numbers in my IMAP-stored address book (screw syncing)
• retrieve events from personal and family Apple iCal published calendars (again, screw syncing)
• retrieve documents from my tiddlyspot-like TiddlyWiki
• append a TODO to my todo list
• poor man's mail client: retrieve the subject lines of messages in my inbox, text back with a message number to get the contents

update: Hm.. This Textmark looks neat - among other things, you can map a keyword to a web clipping and message the service whenever you want the clipping. Also, I moved this idea to my halfbakery.