Send Shorty

Big news coming soon!

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:50:17 +0000

At SendShorty we are always working hard on new ways to help our customers succeed in their SMS marketing efforts. We have some big news coming soon!

Get ready for some big changes and enhancements to SendShorty! We are adding tons of new features and more integrations that will help you with your SMS marketing needs!

SendShorty now supports Voice Broadcasting in over 40 countries

admin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:05:18 +0000

Checkout our newest feature in SendShorty we now support Voice Broadcasting in over 40 countries.

What is new at SendShorty!

admin — Sun, 15 May 2011 03:15:12 +0000

We have been working hard on a few new features, and thought we’d let you know what we are working on! In the last few weeks we were asked a few times if there was a way for us to check if a phone number is a mobile phone number or not and we are now adding a feature to lookup the carrier and phone number type for a phone number.

Currently this will only works for numbers on the North American Dial and keep in mind that the information is not 100% accurate as due to the Number Portability Act numbers originally allocated as mobile numbers can become land lines and vice versa.

You will see this feature added to the service in the next few weeks it will be available free of charge as a lookup service within SendShorty and can also be used for bulk lookups through an API for only 1 cent per lookup!

Upcoming SendShorty Features

admin — Sun, 08 May 2011 02:32:18 +0000

At SendShorty we listen to our users and we keep working on adding new Features to the service that you are asking for. Recent popular requests included birthday reminders and event reminders, and we are now working on implementing these for you.

The first version of the birthday reminders was implemented in the the May 5th release and we expect to complete an integration with EventBrite for event reminders in an upcoming release, so check back soon!

SendShorty for Empire Avenue Coming Soon!

admin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:49:46 +0000

We are working hard on adding additional features to SendShorty so that Empire Avenue users can use SendShorty to send SMS Text Messages to their friends on Empire Avenue and buy and sell stocks using SMS Text Messages.

This service will be proved free of charge to all Empire Avenue users and features include:

One login for Empire Avenue and SendShorty

Create lists of Empire Avenue Users in SendShorty

Adding and Removing Empire Avenue users from SendShorty lists

Stock Price Triggers, Actions & Autoresponders

Send SMS Text Messages to Empire Avenue Users or groups/lists of users

Enhanced Stock Quotes by SMS Text Message (Basic version available now, just text your ticker symbol to (818) 900-2731 (for Example: TEXT: CASHOEFMAN to (818) 900-2731)

Buy & Sell Stock using SMS Text Messages

More to come on this soon!

Amazon outage NOT an issue for SendShorty!

admin — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:04:17 +0000

While hundreds of companies were impacted this morning by the outage in the Amazon AWS cloud SendShorty was not impacted at all. Granted our users were not able to post to FourSquare because the FourSquare service itself was not working but that wasn’t something we could do anything about.

It is amazing to see how fast cloud services have grown over the last few years, hundreds of startups rely on Amazon’s cloud services for their day to day operations and when Amazon’s east coast data center started having issues, this morning, a very significant number of these startups also started experiencing issues. It begs the question if the people responsible for the architecture and design at the impacted companies thought the architecture and design through or if they just choose the cheapest solution they could find! (and it wasn’t only startups impacted by this outage)

At SendShorty we don’t just rely on one server or one cluster of servers in one data center. Our service is build on a geographic redundant clusters of servers, dedicated hardware that is up to the task! It limits us slightly in our ability to scale up our service although we could quickly build additional clusters in the cloud if needed, we just wouldn’t rely on one cloud services site!

This doesn’t mean we never experience issues, we have had hardware malfunction and even whole data center sites go down or loose connectivity. We carefully monitor all our hardware, the services running on them and our connectivity and quickly take action in case of failures but we won’t be impacted at the scale some of companies were impacted today!

Time flies when you are having fun!

admin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:50:00 +0000

We delivered an impressing release in dev today! We are all looking forward to sharing our updates with everyone in the production environment tomorrow! Winning…

Final Touches

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:54:53 +0000

We are adding the final touches to SendShorty and are getting ready to come out of Beta. Exciting!

Demo’s are ready!

admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:11:38 +0000

Worked hard today on demo’s, want a sneak peak into our service and play around with the demo’s? Signup for the Private Beta on the Join My List Tab on our Facebook page!

Private Beta Coming Soon!

admin — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:05:42 +0000

Working hard this weekend getting ready for the office Private Beta release. If you haven’t signed up for access to the Private Beta do it now!