It was a bit eerie reading Suzanne Choney’s MSNBC article entitled Thousands of New iPhone Programs? Maybe So. No, it wasn’t surprising that 100,000 people have downloaded Apple’s Software Developer’s Kit for the iPhone. The iPhone has got to be one of the most talked about pieces of technology available today.
No, what left me feeling strange were some quotes by Charlene Li, the Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Under the heading “Think Social Networking” she says,
“One of the applications that hasn’t been developed yet is related to shopping.”
“When people are out shopping now, they’ll call their friends and say, ‘What should I get — the blue one or the green one?’ and they’ll take a picture with their phone and send it to their friends using SMS,” text messaging.
Li goes on to say that the next step in this evolution would be to have a way to snap and send a picture to a network of friends on a social networking site.
Now let’s quick switch over to the Next2Friends FAQ section, particularly the service called Ask-A-Friend:
“Ask-A-Friend is a dynamic new way to get instant feedback from all your friends, or if you choose, the entire Next2Friends community. It works like this: You snap photos to create an instant opinion poll to send to whomever you choose for a vote. Your friends will receive notification via their mobile device or their Next2Friends profile that an opinion poll has been created. They choose their favorites among the pictures and the results are then sent directly back to you. Ask-A-Friend gives you real time results when you need them the most; in the real world!”
Eerie! Something is going on, either Charlene Li has been perusing Next2Friends in her sleep or she has some kind of creepy Vulcan mind-meld going on with the visionaries of Next2Friends. She basically described Ask-A-Friend to a tee! And Next2Friends is already working on porting the platform over to the iPhone. This should be accomplished within about two months. What Charlene Li may not know (at least consciously…remember, I’m still working off of the mind-meld theory) is that once Next2Friends works on the iPhone users will not only be able to seek and receive instant advice from friends, they’ll be able to Stream Live Video to friends and even make and meet new friends from their iPhone! And Next2Friends has even more unreleased features in the works that truly make it one of the most ambitious Mobile-Social platforms available! So hold on Charlene, it’s all coming soon! It’s funny how much you can accomplish with just one mission:
Real Life,
Real Time,
Real People,
Hans Erik
Content Marketing Director
Hans at Next2Friends dot com
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