TextMarks
TextMarks is a web-based SMS marketing and communications platform founded in 2007 by Ariel Poler. TextMarks, popular for mass messaging via text messages, utilizes a monthly subscription business model and serves customers inside the United States. TextMarks is currently headquartered in San Francisco, California and is a privately held corporation.
History
Ariel Poler who previously founded Topica and IPRO is the current CEO and Founder of TextMarks. Ariel Poler also served as the Chairman of the Board of LinkExchange. Poler is currently on the board of Odeo and Chairman of StumbleUpon. Ariel was featured prominently in the 1997 book “Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days that Built the Future of Business” alongside American entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreesen and Yahoo co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang. Ariel Poler has been named as one of the most influential Angel Investors by Forbes.
Services
TextMarks delivers text messages to any US mobile phone via group text messaging services. Using TextMarks businesses and other organizations can create a keyword which a user texts to the company’s short code "41411" to receive a message in return. TextMarks has adopted cryptograhically signed requests to allows its clients to specify a secret token in the keyword's API settings page, in order to request TextMarks servers to digitally sign callback requests. This in turn allows TextMarks servers to verify that requests actually came from TextMarks and are not spoofed by users who may have fraudulently obtained the clients callback URLs.
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See also
- SMS language
- Text messaging