Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
- JuiceCaster Nominated for Best Mobile Social Networking Solution in the 12th Annual Webby Awards
“LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The 12th Annual Webby Awards has nominated Juice Wireless’ mobile social networking application, JuiceCaster, for the Best Mobile Social Networking solution of 2008. The Webby Awards will announce the winners on May 6, 2008 and honor them at a star-studded gala in New York City on June 10. Additionally, from now through May 1, fans around the world can cast their votes for JuiceCaster in The Webby People’s Voice Awards presented by Nokia by visiting www.JuiceCaster.com.”
- Raketu Releases New Mobile Social Networking - Now Users Can Contribute, Communicate, and Share from Their Desktops and Mobile Devices Anywhere
“NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Raketu, a leading global Internet communications, information, and entertainment company, today released its mobile social networking application. In addition to Raketu’s voice calling, SMS-Texting, file sharing and other communications, information and entertainment services, the new application allows any user, anywhere, to contribute, share and interact from any device. Raketu’s new Mobile Social Networking is also available on any desktop through the browser and the Raketu download client, so that users on Raketu’s website, mobile websites and from the download client can actively participate and share information in their social network no matter where they are.”
- Wirenode: Create Mobile Sites in Facebook
“Wirenode is a startup from the Prague, Czech Republic. It’s platform for mobile publishing. Everybody can create mobile friendly website very easily, with no technology knowledge in their web browser. Created mobile websites are immediately accessible from all types of mobile phones. You can create mobile website with multiple pages, images, mobile RSS etc…
Free version of the service is used by individuals, who created more than 6000 mobile pages. Premium version is used by marketing agencies and mobile operators for creating landing pages and small mobile portals for mobile marketing purposes.”
- Itsmy.com Reaches 1 Million Users on Mobile Phones
“April 9, 2008 (Munich, New York, London, Madrid) – itsmy.com, one of the world’s fastest growing mobile-only social networks, has announced one million registered users. The ad-funded mobile community dedicates every user a free personalisable mobile homepage with a unique mobile web address (myname.itsmy.com) to show and tell all friends – the main reason for the fast viral growth. All users register via the browser of their mobile phone in mobile internet, wherever they are. Gofresh, the company behind itsmy.com, is a Telecommunications company with main focus on live entertainment combined with social networking - wherever, whenever. Gofresh targets with itsmy.com the leadership for off-portal mobile communities in US and EU in 2008.”
- 28 Million Mobile Subscribers Responded To At Least One Mobile Ad
“According to a new report from The Nielsen Company, twenty-three percent (58 million) of all U.S. mobile subscribers say they’ve been exposed to advertising on their phones in the past 30 days. Half (51% or 28 million) of all data users who recall seeing mobile advertising in the previous 30 days say they responded to a mobile ad.”
- Frengo’s Mobile Toolkit Makes Your OpenSocial Apps Mobile
“Mobile media company Frengo has revealed its OpenSocial mobile Toolkit today, enabling developers to “share” their existing applications from other OpenSocial participating networks for mobile use. In order to support this, Frengo has created an OpenSocial-compliant mobile platform, which means mobile extension for your existing apps. RockYou is a launch partner.”
Tags: cell phone social networking, frengo, itsmy.com, juicecaster, mobile advertising, mobile facebook, mobile social network, mobile social networking, mobile social networking advertising, mobile social networks, moble social networking news, raketu, wirenode
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
- 28 Million Mobile Subscribers Responded to At Least One Mobile Ad
“According to a new report from The Nielsen Company, twenty-three percent (58 million) of all U.S. mobile subscribers say they’ve been exposed to advertising on their phones in the past 30 days. Half (51% or 28 million) of all data users who recall seeing mobile advertising in the previous 30 days say they responded to a mobile ad.”
- Social networking websites protect children, says Bebo
“Social networking websites are taking their duty to protect younger users more seriously following a sea change in attitudes, according to Bebo’s safety officer.Dr Rachel O’Connell said sites such as Bebo, which attracts users mainly aged between 16 and 24, have been driven to take online safety more seriously by a strong commercial as well as social imperative.”
- Facebook for Blackberry racks up a million hits
“BlackBerry users have racked up more than one million downloads of a Facebook app in the five months since it launched. Facebook for BlackBerry - which is free to download and launched on 24 October last year - allows users to perform a variety of tasks including sending and viewing messages, making Wall posts and ‘poking’ other Facebook users. A user’s status message can also be updated on the go, and friend requests can be made and responded to. In addition, users can take photos on their phones and upload them directly to Facebook.”
- Sampa Launches Private Blogs for Families
“Website creation service Sampa is getting more vertical. A few new options have been added to the service for creating themed websites for users to set up blogs to be shared privately with friends and family. This appears to be somewhat of an extension from the family tree-building tool that Sampa released last year, especially given the interactive functions that Sampa did include previously. In fact, the family tree capabilities are integrated into this new feature that Sampa is releasing. The premise is to offer an interactive and easily communicated way in which a user can share blog entries (stories) and photo albums with the people to which they’re the closest.”
- 7 Brand Name Social Networks
“When big brands decide something is hot, they will move in and attempt to copy it. Sometimes they actually succeed at their goals, and sometimes…well, let’s just say that results are less than spectacular. We’ve sampled 7 well-known brands that tried their hands at creating a social network.”
Tags: blog family, brand name social networks, brand social networks, facebook for blackberry, fortune 500 social networking, mobile ad, mobile ads, mobile advertisement, mobile advertisements, mobile advertising, sampa, Social Networking, social networking children, social networking websites privacy
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