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Gary

Managing Director

About Gary

Gary is MD at mediaburst and is acutely allergic to public speaking. So for health reasons puts his thoughts and feelings onto the web for your enjoyment. Loves iphones and snowboards.

Nagios SMS Alerts

For the IT teams and developers out there that use infrastructure monitoring software you’ll be pleased to hear we’ve released an SMS plug-in for Nagios.

Very simply, the plug-in provides a gateway so you can receive Nagios SMS alerts and notification.

It uses the Nagios pager confirmation to send SMS through our HTTP Gateway.

You can see more details on Nagios’s site and we should appear on the Nagios official plugins directory pretty soon.


Choosing SMS software

We advertise 3 key products on the home page plus a solution just for software developers generally referred to as an API.

As all of the solutions allow you to send text messages, what’s the difference between them and which one is applicable to you? continue reading Choosing SMS software


Election 2010 Buzzword Bingo

With a hung parliament and the inevitable barrage of speeches from our political leaders, it’s all too easy to drift off and switch off.

But not when you play Buzzword Bingo!

Download our bingo sheet, get your dabbers out and pay attention.

David Cameron is first up at 14:30!

Click here to get the bingo card

requires pdf reader.

10 Mobile Marketing Blogs

With the rise of both blogging and mobile marketing it seems logical that there should be some quality mobile marketing blogs out there. But alas, there is a lot of self promoting rubbish too. So before you get lost searching in Google here are 10 of the best, in no particular order. continue reading 10 Mobile Marketing Blogs


Mobile Education (lack of)

I’ve recently been exposed to some tuition material for the Mobile sections of some popular marketing exams from two different industry bodies.

The reason for blogging was my disappointment at the standards that are currently being set and inaccuracies in the teaching material. continue reading Mobile Education (lack of)


Orange Network Outage on 7th April.

We’ve been notified that there is to be SMS outage on Orange network next Wednesday, 7th April 2010.

The notification has come direct from Orange and will occur while they carry out changes to their SMS network.

During the outage there will be a total loss of SMS services on the Orange network for approximately 3 hours, starting at midnight 7th April and ending at 3am on Thursday 8th April. continue reading Orange Network Outage on 7th April.


No new SMS suppliers thanks

Recently we have been receiving a lot of communication from various SMS aggregators keen to establish a relationship with us to supply our MT SMS.

So in a slight attempt to clarify the position here it is: continue reading No new SMS suppliers thanks


Cuddly Toys

Now our SMS birds are in cuddly toy form…..thanks Claire.

Place your orders early for Christmas!


How car manufacturers get mobile marketing wrong

You must have all seen it by now. Car manufacturers including SMS shortcodes and keywords on their TV adverts so you can text in for more information. And good on them too, it’s the right thing to do…..but can we learn from their mistakes? continue reading How car manufacturers get mobile marketing wrong


Cake…and eat it

It’s not just Avatar that’s in 3D, today our mediaburst birds have appeared in 3 dimensional form courtesy of Phil Thompson, or more actually Phil’s girlfriend.

For once I’m lost for words….let the cake eating commence!


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