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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. Re:Let me guess... by romit_icarus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Abosulutely bang on! Any mobile phone service from the US sounds a bit primitive. Even the list of phone models mentioned is so limited....

  2. What is it good for? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Call me old-fashioned, but I can exchange comments and plan activities with my friends by - GASP! - calling them!

    -"Hey, man, fancy a beer?"
    -"Sure!"

    But hey, at least their FAQ mentions a "tickr". VC's of the world, unite!