Send SMS from Chrome.

"Previously, building SMS apps was hard... it could take months of negotiations, approvals, and hundreds or thousands of dollars up-front and every month to get started.  With Twilio SMS, it's as easy as buying a Twilio phone number from the Twilio account portal or Phone Numbers REST API for $1 / month, and immediately start receiving and sending text messages using Twilio's SMS REST API for just 3 cents per message."

"A BRITISH man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message."

"twttr is a text messaging service based on the idea that everyone and everything has a status. twttr keeps you connected to your friends by subscribing to their status." - mobile mutual glancing.

Light bulb sends SMS to tell you it has burned out. Presumably to confirm the usual eye-based notification system.

Searching via SMS could be very handy - finding a nice pub in a strange town, that sort of thing, but the results returned seem a bit limited.

Google via SMS for Americans. (I thought Americans didn't use SMS much?)

"Anyone using the service can find their nearest hotspot by texting the word "hotspot" to the 84140 SMS short code number." £1 a time is a bit steep, though.