Friendster on your Phone


OMG just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Friendster is now mobile!

Terence Pua, founder of local startup Pusit and Philippine affiliate of Friendster, has told INQ7.net that it will unveil a service called Friendster Mobs next month.

This new service, which will be available only in the country, will allow Filipino subscribers to do online and mobile instant messaging using a homegrown solution.

“The vision for Mobs is to make your buddy list in Friendster portable. There will be no downloading of any software client in your computer or mobile phone. Eventually we will allow people to do conference instant messaging,” Pua added.

Wait, so instead of sending SMS or calling someone, I can just leave a personal message in Friendster if its really urgent? But with the way its so popular now, I’ll believe anything.

Friendster is the online viral community that’s equitable in magnitude to the popularity of MySpace in the US. But you already know this. And no, Mobile Philippines is not on Friendster.

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Written by:
iBern
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6/9/2006 at 10:49 am

This *may* become popular to SMART subscribers because of the less expensive 3G/GPRS access rates. The problem here is how to inform the millions of friendster users of this new way to access their several hundreds of “friendsters”.

Wait… won’t their mobile IM undercut the telco’s profits from SMS?

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Rico
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6/9/2006 at 3:42 pm

Maybe Smart might gain from the advertising on Friendster. The website has failed to catch on in the US, and its been estimated that 20% of its accounts are owned by Filipinos. I can imagine that Friendster has never been profitable, and they must realize that to survive, they’ll need to cater to the people who use it most, i.e., us.

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godie
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6/10/2006 at 3:27 pm

friendster on mobile old news: http://you.inq7.net/gear/11232004/tec3-1.htm

or this is a re-launch with a new brand name? The old service already has SMS, MMS, and WAP capability so im confused when the news say “There will be no downloading of any software client in your computer or mobile phone.” therefore j2me based application is out of the question.

Anyway if you have a series60 nokia phone you can download the S60 browser from nokia which allows you to view friendster or any webpages on phone at almost full glory of a web browser. Its is a sign that there could be a shift from traditional access to full web access very soon which mar hurt traditional VAS.