Hello Kai > I had time this evening to carefully read > http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/papers/unicef-w3c-presentation.html > > There is no mention of SMS services ever being moved to the Web. Is > there another case study where this scenario ever happened? Yes. The open-source SMS gateway Kannel provides this functionality. > > > > At the bottom of the "SMS Constraints" section there is an incorrect > comparison of SMS and the Web. The Web is also stateless. The comparison is regarding Web-applications, which often maintain user state with cookies or login credentials. > > > > > > Are there any Web<->SMS bridges? Where people can write a message like: > > > "GET w3.org" to a fictitious short code 31337 > > and get the latest entry on http://www.w3.org/2000/08/w3c-synd/home.rss ? Nothing precisely like that exists, to my knowledge, but creating such a service with a tool like Kannel would be relatively easy. > > > > I'm trying to map SMS to the Web if we are really stuck with SMS. > > > > Kind regards, > > -- Evan Wheeler UNICEF Youth Section, Division of Communication 3 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017 Tel: +1 212 326 7323 Fax: +1 212 326 7768 Mobile: +1 917 720 7702 http://mepemepe.com ewheeler@unicef.org -------------------------------------------- For Every Child Health, Education, Equality, Protection ADVANCE HUMANITY --------------------------------------------Received on Tuesday, 4 November 2008 20:16:15 GMT
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