Here are the slides from the presentation that Mike Prince gave on SMTP gateways for SMS/MMS. A few people have been asking for info from the presentations. I need to snag Dorrian’s slides still, I’ll get them (or a pointer to them) up soon.

Tonight is the July Meeting of the Silicon Valley chapter of Mobile Monday:

• What: July 2006 Mobile Monday (SMS Messaging)
• When: July 10th, 2006 7:00pm
• Where: AOL Building 12, 401 Ellis St., Mountain View, CA
• Who: Anyone interested in mobility
• Cost: Nothing!

We have two presentations to kick things off:

• Mike Prince from Mobido has been using the SMTP gateways to provide both inbound and outbound messaging capability for the service. He’s going to talk about how that works out in practice and what some of the issues have been
• Dorrian Porter from Mozes has setup a US based shortcode for use with their service. He’s going to talk about what went into setting up the shortcode and what ongoing testing and maintenance goes into running a shortcode based messaging service.

See you all tonight!

Because of the holiday on the 4th, we’re going to be having the July meeting on the 10th:

• What: July 2006 Mobile Monday (SMS Messaging)
• When: July 10th, 2006 7:00pm
• Where: AOL Building 12, 401 Ellis St., Mountain View, CA
• Who: Anyone interested in mobility
• Cost: Nothing!

Lots of folks have been asking recently about how to setup their app to do messaging, and how some of the options like using the SMTP gateways or working with an aggregator. We’ll hear from a few folks who have been using the different styles, what the tradeoffs are, and some of the practical issues. See you there!
- Mike