It was great to sit down with DaveO on the podcast and talk over a wide arc of experiences I've had in the past 4+ years. In case it wasn't clear from the audio (I do have some extended liner notes on my personal site), I'm finishing up my time at Raincity Studios.

After the sale of Bryght back in November / December and 6 months of transition work, I've moved on to work on my new startup, Bootup Labs, full time.

That's not to say that I'm leaving Raincity Studios behind completely. I'm still an advisor to the company, focusing especially on products and services related to hosting and the Bryght Light service. We've got some new services that I'm really excited about seeing launch, from server hosting in Canada to Aegir mass hosting for all VPS customers to some interesting computing integration.

There is a lot of engaging work happening in the mobile phone community and we would like to see Drupal become a larger part of it. Half the world's population now has a mobile phone and the lowest common denominator for mobile communication is SMS text messaging.

The SMS Framework module comes with in-line message sending, bulk message sending, phone number integration with user profiles, support for email gateways, as well as support for the Clickatell SMS gateway. For a great overview of some of these features check out a screencast by Development Seed here.

Building on Development Seed's work, we have implemented support for receiving messages as well as support for the Mobile Muse gateway. Mobile Muse is a free SMS platform for non-commercial use hosted here in Vancouver (yes, free – if you're Canadian and would like to have access to the MUSE gateway, we can get you access). Its aim is to foster experimentation and innovation with mobile platforms and for us it is a great way to get our hands dirty with SMS.