Social platform Ning weaves in smartphone contacts (AFP)

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 7:01 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Social website platform Ning on weekday went ambulatory with iPhone, iPad, and iPod contact applications that sway lists of contacts into realistic cliques that grouping crapper verify with them on the go.

Free Mogwee code lets grouping exchange text messages, photos, YouTube videos and modify sheep cartoons while conversation on their smartphones, according to Ning honcho executive Jason Rosenthal.

"We are striving for the re-invention of communication through your phone," he said.

"We took (text) chitchat and rewrote it completely... We added a clump of ethnic actions same the knowledge to intercommunicate a sheep at someone while you are conversation to them, or toss them a hunch or pledge them."

Ning provides the first five realistic gifts free, and then charges 99 cents for each instance the have is replenished.

Along with sharing pictures or videos grouping crapper use Mogwee for "hang-out" actions such as uncovering movies or restaurants that friends poverty to savor together.

"We conceive the come book on the sound represents the most essential ethnic interpret you have," Rosenthal said. "Those are the grouping you carry around with you."

Next hebdomad Ning -- which allows users to physique websites with ethnic networking features -- will promulgation a edition of Mogwee tailored for smartphones streaming on Google-built Android software.

Mogwee is acquirable globally in individual languages, including French, Spanish, German, Asian and Chinese.

Technology bourgeois Marc Andreessen co-founded Ning with Gina Bianchini in 2004. She left Ning shortly before the startup's workforce was reduced.

Andreessen also founded browser and is a member of the Facebook commission of directors.


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