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New SMS Gateway Runs Off Thumb Drive
SlingshotSMS, by Development Seed, is an SMS Gateway designed to facilitate SMS communication with web applications. All you need is a GSM modem or cell phone, a computer, and a working Internet connection. The gateway, which can run from a USB drive, collects SMSs via the GSM modem, then pushes an HTTP request to any services you want. The gateway is built using Python.
MobileActive reports that:
This approach should greatly simplify SMS-to-web publishing, allowing application developers to take advantage of the wide range of functions offered by CMSs like Drupal and WordPress. Development Seed has modeled location based news services using Drupal, but I see a wide variety of uses for this model, ranging from journalism, to crisis tracking, to political campaigns.
Development Seed is actively seeing developers to contribute to this open source project. Check it out on github!