Not too long ago I was talking about the GOGII textPlus 2.0 update for the Apple iPhone [ article here ] but GOGII added some worthy updates to this version that remains free and is a free way to send SMS between up to 50 folks in your contact list at once.

GOGII, Inc. takes another giant step toward revolutionizing the way people text today by making it possible to reach out to and communicate with up to 50 people at a time using a single free text message. The company’s flagship next generation texting application, textPlus, now lets users create “personal communities” that can be reached in a moment’s notice via text – today’s most ubiquitous mobile communication mode.

“People have used email group messages, listserves and the ‘reply all’ features on email to coordinate organizations and groups for years,” said Scott Lahman, CEO and Co-Founder of GOGII. “But the fact is emails aren’t received or read as quickly as text messages. We’re bringing email-like functionality to texting so that every member of every work softball team, soccer parent group, high school clique, book club or Saturday night bar crawl can be reached in an instant.”

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users can download the free textPlus 2.1 app from the Apple App Store, then become “community managers” by creating names for their various groups within the app. A community manager can invite up to 50 members to join a group (members don’t need to have the app or use an iPhone – they simply need to have a phone that is text-enabled), and send one text to the entire community name to initiate a conversation. In textPlus’s chatroom-like environment, everyone in the group receives the text and everyone sees all the replies.

GOGII (pronounced “go-jee”) has upped the ante for this free app that allows for free text messaging between now communities of folks now. Just… hint hint please add a method to text people overseas and I’ll be 100% happy(-ier). Go get it now.

[ Links: textPlus 2.1, GOGII ] [ Related: textPlus 2.0 ]