Mobile MySpace Bulletins and Comments - Frengo

Posted on February 12th, 2007 in General by daya

Frengo, a mobile games provider that announced a $2.3 million funding round at the end of 2006, has just launched a service for interacting with MySpace from your phone via text messaging. Users enter their MySpace username and password, plus their mobile number, to get started. You can then post comments, bulletins and photos to your MySpace account using commands like “MYSPACE BULLETIN Meetup tonight at 8pm” - see the company’s own profile for examples.

But Frengo’s MySpace service also has an incredibly smart viral element to it: whenever users submit comments and bulletins via their phone, a little Frengo logo and link appears next to the message, encouraging others to get Frengo and send their own mobile messages. This is the same viral tactic used by widget makers and MySpace layouts vendors. And since mobile users aren’t at their PCs at the time, there’s no risk that they’ll simply remove the html link before posting.

The point of the service is to promote Frengo’s other mobile offerings, and that’s an interesting trend, too - companies are launching MySpace add-ons as promotional tools for all kinds of non-MySpace services.

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MyToons - YouTube for Cartoons

Posted on February 12th, 2007 in General by daya

MyToons, which is currently in private beta, is an impressive new video and image-sharing site for cartoons. You can upload your own videos and artwork, and find the most viewed, top rated, most discussed and most recent media in these sections.

The player is large, fast loading and Flash-based - it can also be expanded to take up much of the screen. Look out too for tagging, comments and the ability to share via email (strangely, there’s no option to embed clips in MySpace and blogs). Beyond media sharing, there’s also groups, messaging, networks of friends and profile pages. The profiles provide a choice of design templates, and you can also create you own.

The question, of course, is whether the market will support a cartoon-focused media sharing site, or whether the current options (YouTube and DeviantArt) could suffice. Personally, I think there’s a demand for such a service - ComicSpace was widely welcomed, despite being incomplete. Cartoon fans are obsessive and extremely tech-savvy: a great niche to tap into.


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