About the Authors

Despite his day job as a senior program manager on the Microsoft Windows Live Digital Memories Experience team, Jordan Schwartz has built several SMS applications on the cheap, including Slam, a group-centric communication application (www.msslam.com) and Pixie Hunt, a real-time mobile photo scavenger hunt game built on UPOC, Flickr, and several other existing services. Jordan has spoken and lectured on SMS applications and their implementations at O?Reilly?s ETech 2006, Ignite Seattle, and the University of Washington.

Brian Retford spends most of his time in Seattle working as a freelance developer. Most recently he's been developing SMS applications for friends and for various projects. Brian has created many communications applications for the first responder industry and has a background in computer security and 3d graphics. His blog can be found at http://blog.metanonsense.com/.

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