Next Big (Invasion of Privacy) Thing on the Net

II woke up feeling a little prophet-ish this morning. If I were a betting man, I’d go that route, but instead I’ll just blog about it. I know what the next big service thing from Google should be (keep reading).

Ready? It’s a free SMS gateway that allows sending SMS messages through an open API.

Think about it. Text-messaging (“SMSing”) has been hot for a while here in the US and even more widespread internationally. Marketing companies and individuals alike are already using it quite a bit. Text-messaging is expensive here, though. Many little startups, with little, but interesting pilot sites just can not afford it. How is the industry going to innovate, if they can’t afford the tools?

There’s a lot of data transmitted over text-messages and maybe even more interesting than what you find in emails, since text-messages typically have less spam. If Google is willing to provide huge mailboxes for free, just for a chance to index e-mail bodies – they should be dying to get their hands on text-messages. If anything, Google is late to do it.

You say “privacy”? I say – yeah, like Google cares.

So, here it is – you should see something like it in the next 6 months. I give it a year tops.