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Mobamingle - Mobile Gametown comes to the US and Europe

Mobamingle recently launched in the US and Europe as the international version of the smash hit Japanese Mososo service Mobile Gametown or Mobagetown.  Mobamingle is available at m.mbmgl.com and is really going to have a big impact - all the other mobile social networks are going to have to raise their game to compete.

We recently covered mbmgl over at Mobile Industry Review.  The key highlights of the Japanese version of the service:

• 10m plus users
• 15 bn monthly page views
• $200m in annual revenues
  

If the company behind mobamingle Dena can repeat their success outside of Japan it will be good for everyone in mobile.  They are an amazing company who have pioneered things like mobile affiliate marketing and mobile auctions in Japan. 

Go read the full post over at Mobile Industry Review. 

Dennis at Wap Review also did a typically brilliant review of the site here

mbmgl on mjelly (PC)

mbmgl on mjelly (mobile)

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)

Find eBuddy Lite on mjelly (mobile)

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Itsmy.com - a mobile 2.0 service building something really special

We recently profiled Itsmy.com over at Mobile Industry Review, based on an interview carried out with Vince Stable the CEO and his CTO Jukka. 

Some of the key highlights:

• itsmy are building for the long-term - they don't really run any ads from ringtone companies or use ad networks that much in favour of developing their own direct relationships with advertisers like Reebok to offer bespoke mobile advertising solutions like sponsorship and so on


• they are making massive use of data to understand their audience, and can track individual users over time across their site to a very fine degree


• there is evidence of a MASSIVE BOOM building in mobile internet off the back of flat rate data plans - all of itsmy.com's evidence points to usage exploding when networks launch cheap data packages


• mobile-only services like itsmy.com are thriving even as sites like facebook develop their own mobile sites

• they are investing heavily in their platform in terms of moderation, to keep the service safe and through localisation technology to allow them to cover different European markets

• they aren't targeting some of the hyper growth mobile markets like Indonesia and India, rather they are focusing on the US and Europe (apparently they actually block some countries from accessing the service)

It's great to see a mobile 2.0 company like itsmy making a long-term investment rather than going for a quick buck - a real contrast from the likes of Jamster and Monstermob who gave mobile 1.0 such a bad name.

You can go read the full post over at Mobile Industry Review.

itsmy.com on mjelly

itsmy.com on mjelly

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