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Fring wins the Mobile Monday Peer Awards

Fring was one of the winners of the Mobile Monday Peer Awards at MWC in Barcelona and you can read our profile of it over at Mobile Industry Review.   Fring competes with some of the other mobile voip software services we've covered before such as Mig33 and Nimbuzz.

A couple of key points:

• Fring is doing pretty nicely in terms of traction with 400,000 new downloads and activations per month

• Fring has managed to raise $13m + in funding over three rounds

Anyway head on over to Mobile Industry Review for the full article.

Fring download on mjelly (PC)

Fring download on mjelly (mobile)

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Mobile 2.0 Startups nominated for Mobile Monday awards

Rudy from mtrends pinged me to say that the nominees for the MobileMonday Peer Awards have been whittled down from 163 to 42 by the mobilemonday chapters around the world.  An international Jury will now select the 20 finalists to present at the Peer Awards event in Barcelona. These finalists chosen to present in Barcelona will be announced on January 26.

Great to see that quite a few of the nominees are already in the mjelly directory including:

• fring - (MobileMonday Tel Aviv)

• mobiSiteGalore - (MobileMonday Chennai)

• MocoSpace - (Mobile Monday Boston)
• Nimbuzz - (Mobile Monday Amsterdam)
• Xumii - MobileMonday Sydney

Here's the full list:

    * 7syntax - MobileMonday Portugal

    * Addict Digital Media - Mobile Monday Buenos Aires

    * aka-aki networks GmbH - MobileMonday Berlin

    * Anaeko - MobileMonday Belfast

    * Aradiom - MobileMonday Istanbul

    * Babajob.com - MobileMonday Bangalore

    * Beabloo - MobileMonday Barcelona

    * Big in Japan Inc. - MobileMonday Dallas

    * bioLocate - MobileMonday Jakarta

    * CIDWAY - MobileMonday Geneva

    * Cirius Technologies, Inc. - MobileMonday Los Angeles

    * Crave Mobile - MobileMonday Philadelphia

    * Creador Estudio Interactivo C.A. - MobileMonday Caracas

    * Dial2Do - MobileMonday Dublin

    * Dialy - Mobile Monday Maroc

    * DPGroup >> Product: SINDYK - MobileMonday Bogota

    * Fortumo - MobileMonday Estonia

    * fring - MobileMonday Tel Aviv

    * Getjar Networks - MobileMonday Lithuania

    * iKen Solutions - MobileMonday Mumbai

    * Keynetik - MobileMonday Washington DC

    * Liquid Air Lab GmbH / adplace.com - MobileMonday Frankfurt

    * Mob4Hire - MobileMonday Vancouver

    * Mobintech A/S - MobileMonday Copenhagen

    * mobiSiteGalore - MobileMonday Chennai

    * MocoSpace - Mobile Monday Boston

    * Nimbuzz B.V. - Mobile Monday Amsterdam

    * Orbster GmbH - MobileMonday Munich

    * Oxynade - MobileMonday Brussels

    * Palringo - MobileMonday London

    * rmbrME - MobileMonday New York

    * Secusmart GmbH - MobileMonday Dusseldorf

    * Smaato Inc. - MobileMonday Hamburg

    * Soonr - MobileMonday Silicon Valley

    * Tellmewhere - MobileMonday Paris

    * Unkasoft Advergaming - MobileMonday Madrid

    * Wapalta - MobileMonday St. Petersburg

    * Wapja.net - MobileMonday Sao Paulo

    * WorldMate, Inc. - MobileMonday Atlanta

    * Xumii - MobileMonday Sydney

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ebuddy hits 11m downloads of its Java app

 

ebuddy just announced that they have reached 11m downloads of their mobile application.  The service lets you log into your IM accounts like AIM, Googletalk, MSN Messenger and ICQ as well as the Facebook and Myspace social networks. 

This is pretty stunning when you consider that this has all been achieved with very limited use of the iphone app store.  ebuddy has been really effective at using mobile viral marketing tactics, word of mouth and the strength of its product to get traction without spending large sums on advertising

I recently profiled ebuddy over at Mobile Industry Review - so head over to read it. 

Here are the key stats:

- 11m downloads of the ebuddy mobile software, growing at 1m downloads per month

- average user logs in 30 times a month

- 3m monthly visitors on mobile, growing 195% a year (2004 to 2008)

- processed 45bn messages in 2008

- In some markets, such as Indonesia, eBuddy's mobile traffic is 2-3 times its web traffic

- PSP, iphone touch are fast growing platforms not just mobile phones

 

ebuddy are an amazing mobile success story ! Dont forget to read the full profile over at mobile industry review.

ebuddy in the mjelly directory

eBuddy mobile messenger (java app)

eBuddy download on mjelly (PC)

eBuddy download on mjelly (mobile)

eBuddy Lite Messenger (mobile web app)

Find eBuddy Lite on mjelly (PC)

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