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Social Networking From Your Cell

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the narccissim-gone-wild dept.

A small startup VCEL (Virtual Communication Expression & Lifestyle) has unveiled a new social networking service for cell phones. All you need to do to keep in contact with your friends 24/7 is to create a profile with their website, download a Java application for your cell phone (more than 20 models are supported already), and send an invitation to your buddies. Here we go: you can exchange comments, pictures, plan on activities together, etc. You'd have the same control over your profile either from phone or from web browser. They have a nice Java applet for your page, so you can leave your buddies a voice message right from your computer and so on.

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  1. Let me guess... by pugdk · · Score: 2, Informative

    US only?

  2. Re:To Join by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Informative

    Answered my own question about the MySpace biz.

    http://pub.vcel.net/how.aspx
    Apparently you'll be able to check your MySpace profile for updates, amongst other things.

    http://www.vcel.net/vcel_contact.php
    One of their Board of Advisors is David Rogan - President Cisco Systems Capitol, Vice President of Finance at Cisco Systems?

    I don't know what to make of that.

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  3. Better use for phones in social networking by b0r1s · · Score: 3, Informative

    A better use is vobbo's video blog + video phone integration, where you can post pictures and video from the phone to the web. Don't try to type with a silly keypad, don't try to view video/picture on limited resolution, use it as an input device and get back to using the web the way you meant to all along.

    Get the media online quickly and easily, that's what people really seem to care about, anyway.

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