Daring Fireball: Twitter Hires Rael Dornfest; Stikkit and I Want Sandy to Close December 8

This is great news for Twitter, but catastrophic news for Alex Bain. I use “I Want Sandy” religiously. It was a terrific, free, and lightning fast way to fire off a reminder to myself that would both show up in my calendar and send me a text message in the future at a time of my choosing.

Imagine being out to dinner and thinking, “I really need to call Roger in the morning.” I could send a note through Twitter that said “d s r Call Roger at 10AM tomorrow” and when I woke up in the morning, I’d see the call scheduled on my calendar, and I’d get a reminder text a few minutes before I was supposed to make the call… and this was all free.

I’m going to really miss this service, and it may take a while to find a suitable replacement.