How to add SMS text messaging functionality to my website?

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Published on 2010-07-09T15:42:49Z Indexed on 2012/03/21 17:39 UTC
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I want to add the ability to send reminders to people via email and SMS for specific events that they have signed up for on a web application that I am building. The email part is not difficult, but I am wondering where to find a good solution for sending SMS messages.

It would also be a plus if this solution allowed two-way SMS communication with my web application so that people would be able to reply with a CONFIRM or CANCEL type of a message.

Has anyone implemented something like this? Does anyone know of good tools out there?

EDIT: I am realizing that this is more of a "lots of ways to skin this cat" type of question and so I changed it to community wiki.

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