SMS for the web

[Zooropa]

Anyone here ever set up an SMS system on their sites?

The idea just came into my head for a project I'm starting on with a mate and I think it'd be really useful for our purposes.

Obviously depends on complexity and cost.

Does anyone know anything about it?

For example, send all users with a certain level of access an SMS. SMS distribution list.

[Zero]

There's various companies with APIs that will do this, but even if you buy in bulk it's still about 5p a message.

[Zooropa]

Yeah, im digging about just now.
They can provide apps to do it, or offer an API to integrate with.

I don't think it's in the scope of what we're doing given the cost is fairly high.
Might have around 50 members. £2.50 to message them all, possibly 3 rounds a week...adds up.

[PapaZeb]

For a company that's been doing it for 6mos+, check out www.twitter.com - essentially just a tagboard with optional SMS notification. There's no info on their infrastructure, but the user options and how SMS is integrated is at least something to learn from.

Other alternative is to see about using a phone as a distribution point - there are a few .NET programs out there that'll interface with a phone and use that as an SMS sending/receiving tool

[dalamarthedark]

http://www.sms2email.com/ - I've used this. Peice of piss to integrate with.