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Next2Friends is not only a really cool place to be, but we are also offering you great ways to earn cool rewards. This month we have 2 great giveaways:

THE GREAT NEXT2FRIENDS VALENTINE’S DAY iPOD GIVEAWAY!

Next2Friends will reward the user with the most friends and contacts by 8pm GMT, February 14th, 2008 with an iPod Touch. So get all your friends on board and get on your way to winning a new iPod Touch!

And if that wasn’t good enough now Next2Friends is also offering you ANOTHER way to earn an iPod Touch:

THE GREAT NEXT2FRIENDS LEAP YEAR iPOD GIVEAWAY!

Next2Friends will reward the user of our mobile communication & networking platform who has uploaded the most content to their profile by 8pm PST, February 29th, 2008 with a second iPod Touch. Content can include movies or pictures. Surely another great reason to download Next2Friends on your Mobile Device and to start using some of the great features like Live Video Streaming, Snap Up, Ask-A- Friend & Blue Tooth Tagging.

So there you have it, two iPods being given away in ONE MONTH!

Good luck!

The Next2Friends Team

As a result from direct feedback from our users worldwide, Next2Friends is rolling out dozens of great improvements to our mobile communications platform. Some of these exciting changes include:

- Profile invites so you can invite your friends to look at your Next2Friends profile
- Improvements to the Ask-A-Friend service
- A new video uploader integrated into the Gallery Page
- A new photo uploader integrated into the Gallery Page
- Google maps linked to Ask-A-Friend and Next2Friends Tagging
- An easier method for downloading our four mobile applications to your handsets

And much more! We will continue to improve the site and your experience so please keep that feedback coming. So if you have pre-registered but haven’t completed your signing up please go to:

http://www.next2friends.com/Signup.aspx

And don’t forget:

THE GREAT NEXT2FRIENDS VALENTINE’S DAY IPOD GIVEAWAY!

Next2Friends will be giving away an iPod Touch to the user with the most friends and contacts by February 14th, 2008. So get all your friends on board and be on your way to winning a new iPod!

Good Luck!

Real Life,

Real Time,

Real People,

www.Next2Friends.com

Hans Erik
Content Marketing Director
Hans AT Next2Friends DOT com

Next2Friends has announced that it will be holding a contest in which it will be giving away an iPod Touch to the user with the most Next2Friends contacts by February 14th, 2008.

Next2Friends users connect with one another over the new Next2Friends multi-faceted communications platform that enables a level of real-time interaction surpassing all other social networks available today. Whether it’s through live video streaming from any capable mobile device or webcam, or using intelligent profile matching based on real-time proximity, Next2Friends bridges the “virtual world” with the “real world” like none other.

Any Next2Friend user with an active profile is eligible to win. The total number of friends and contacts of all users will be tabulated at 8:00pm GMT, February 14th, 2008 and the winner will be awarded a prize of the iPod Touch. If you don’t already have a Next2Friends account sign up for a free account at www.Next2Friends.com. Good luck and may the most connected win!

Real Life,

Real Time,

Real People,

www.Next2Friends.com

Hans Erik
Content Marketing Director
Hans@Next2Friends.com

With the recent full Beta public release of Next2Friends, people are starting to take notice of the revolutionary new Social Networking and Mobile-driven communications platform. Sky News has written a feature on Next2Friends in it’s Technology section. You can read it here:

Next2Friends Feature on Sky News

A great introduction to all that Next2Friends has to offer!

Next2Friends allows people to add a profile into a phone and then be notified about people of similar interests. The free phone software already has 12,500 registered users signed up and is being given a beta launch. It can scan up to nine mobiles at any moment and uses bluetooth to exchange profiles with other Next2Friends users who match the required settings. Next2Friends’ founders say it will be used in clubs, where people can set details like “single and interested in music” and find out more about the people they have met. It is being seen as a significant threat to dominant social networking operators such as Facebook.

SKY NEWS LINK 

At this time tomorrow something really cool is happening. Next2Friends is launching its public BETA. Some really great services for your mobile device and the Next2Friends site will be online. We are looking for feedback from as many of you as possible. Please do check it out!

A little about Next2Friends:

NEXT2FRIENDS - The Real World, Virtually.

Next2Friends is a new Communications Platform and Mobile based Social Networking experience that interacts with any Mobile Device (like a cell phone) that allow you to do the following:

Next2Friends Tagging:

Next2Friends Intelligent Proximity Matching assists you in the otherwise tedious task of network building by bridging the “virtual world” with the “real world”. You can use it to meet new people like you, make new business contacts or even to date. Here’s how it works: You set up a Next2Friends profile detailing all your likes, dislikes, quirks and everything that makes you who you are. Then, as you move about in the real world, if you have the Next2Friends software loaded onto your Bluetooth enabled mobile device, Next2Friends will automatically collect and match your data to other Next2Friends users you came into close proximity with. When you next sign into your account you’ll receive notification of all the people you passed throughout the day who share your likes, dislikes, and yes, even your quirks. The rest is up to you! After a while you might find yourself wondering, “are you Next2Friends?” Worried that this could become a way for people to track you throughout your day? Fear not! Next2Friends’ patent pending technology insures both anonymity and privacy via a highly secure implementation methodology and exclusive encryption algorithms so you will only be seen if and when you want to be seen!

Ask-A-Friend:

Have you ever been out and about and just wanted the advice of a good friend? How about the advice of all your friends at once? Next2Friends has a dynamic new way to get instant feedback from all your friends. The service is called Ask-A-Friend. It works like this: Say you’re out shopping for shoes and you find 3 really great pairs of shoes but you’re not sure which ones go best with your jeans. With Ask-A-Friend you can snap photos of yourself wearing all three pairs and then create an instant opinion poll to send to all your friends for a vote. 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!

Live Streaming Video:

How many times have you missed an important family event, or wanted to share a special moment with close friends who couldn’t be with you at the time? With Next2friends Live Video Streaming, you can broadcast live events from any capable mobile device or webcam to your family and friends wherever they are in the world! They can watch the event in real-time with you, as it happens! And if multiple people are at the same event and broadcast on the same channel, any number of end users will be able to choose between the different camera angles being streamed to edit, download or even burn a DVD of the event. Next2Friends Live Video Streaming means no one ever has to miss that first home run again, or that all of us can be eye witnesses to life changing events anytime, from anywhere!

Online Video Editing:

Next2Friends Online Video editing is one of the only online Video Editing Suites available today! Edit videos in real time as they’ re streamed into the site or go back and make edits to and combine videos that have already been shot. Next2Friends gives you the first ever comprehensive set of online video editing tools to turn any event into a full blown video production!

Video Messaging:

Video Messaging is a way to put a personal touch to something we all do dozens of times a week: “leave a message at the beep”. With Next2Friends Video Messaging you can record a message and mail it to anyone to be viewed either on a computer or a cell phone! Be creative, have fun, just imagine what this will do to the game of phone tag! So thanks again for your Pre-Registration. We look forward to serving you and hope you enjoy all the ways that you will soon be able to truly be “Next2Friends”!!! Real life, Real time, Real people, Right Now!! Just wait until you see our roadmap!

And a few photos of some of the mobile device applications:

It’s with a great deal of excitement that I get to announce that Next2Friends has completed development of our new Communications and Mobile-Driven Social Networking Platform! It has been years in development and will be up for testing and industry review this December 24th, 2007. Then, beginning January 2nd, 2008, all Next2Friends pre-registered accounts will become active! Get ready to experience a totally new take on communicating, social networking and unlocking the potential of any mobile device in ways that have never been seen!

So what exactly is Next2Friends?

Next2Friends is a new Communications Platform and Mobile based Social Networking experience that interacts with any Mobile Device (like a cell phone), allowing you to do the following:

Intelligent Proximity Matching Services:

Next2Friends Intelligent Proximity Matching assists you in the otherwise tedious task of network building by bridging the “virtual world” with the “real world”. You can use it to meet new people like you, make new business contacts or even to date. Here’s how it works:

You set up a Next2Friends profile detailing all your likes, dislikes, quirks and everything that makes you who you are. Then, as you move about in the real world, if you have the Next2Friends software loaded onto your Bluetooth and or P2P WIFI enabled mobile device, Next2Friends will automatically collect and match your data to other Next2Friends users you came into close proximity with. When you next sign into your account you’ll receive notification of all the people you passed throughout the day who share your likes, dislikes, and yes, even your quirks. The rest is up to you! After a while you might find yourself wondering, “are you Next2Friends?”

Worried that this could become a way for people to track you throughout your day? Fear not! Next2Friends’ patent pending technology insures both anonymity and privacy via a highly secure implementation methodology and exclusive encryption algorithms so you will only be seen if and when you want to be seen!

Live Streaming Video:

How many times have you missed an important family event, or wanted to share a special moment with close friends who couldn’t be with you at the time? With Next2friends Live Video Streaming, you can broadcast live events from any capable mobile device or webcam to your family and friends wherever they are in the world! They can watch the event in real-time with you, as it happens!

And if multiple people are at the same event and broadcast on the same channel, any number of end users will be able to choose between the different camera angles being streamed to edit, download or even burn a DVD of the event. Next2Friends Live Video Streaming means no one ever has to miss that first home run again, or that all of us can be eye witnesses to life changing events anytime, from anywhere!

Ask-A-Friend:

Have you ever been out and about and just wanted the advice of a good friend? How about the advice of all your friends at once? Next2Friends has a dynamic new way to get instant feedback from all your friends. The service is called Ask-A-Friend. It works like this:

Say you’re out shopping for shoes and you find 3 really great pairs of shoes but you’re not sure which ones go best with your jeans. With Ask-A-Friend you can snap photos of yourself wearing all three pairs and then create an instant opinion poll to send to all your friends for a vote. 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!

Online Video Editing:

Next2Friends Online Video editing is one of the only online Video Editing Suites available today! Edit videos in real time as they’ re streamed into the site or go back and make edits to and combine videos that have already been shot. Next2Friends gives you the first ever comprehensive set of online video editing tools to turn any event into a full blown video production!

Video Messaging:

Video Messaging is a way to put a personal touch to something we all do dozens of times a week: “leave a message at the beep”. With Next2Friends Video Messaging you can record a message and mail it to anyone to be viewed either on a computer or a cell phone! Be creative, have fun, just imagine what this will do to the game of phone tag!

We look forward to serving you and hope you enjoy all the ways that you will soon be able to truly be “Next2Friends”!!!

Real life,

Real time,

Real people,

Right Now!!

Next2Friends

Hans Erik
Content Marketing Director
Hans@Next2Friends.com

Calling All Talents!

Next2Friends is seeking original videos to make available to the world! Upon launch, Next2Friends will be seen by thousands of people a day making this a great opportunity to promote yourself for free! Next2Friends is accepting original video content until our Beta launches this December 24th, 2007, at which time Next2Friends will begin to manage the delivery of content for users. If you post to YouTube or any other video content site consider this yet another avenue to push what you’ve got! People this would be perfect for:

- Short Film Makers (in any genre: comedy, parody, drama, etc.)
- Bands
- Instructors (anyone who gives video lessons, or makes how-to or do-it-yourself videos)
- Comedians
- Commentators
- Anyone with something to share!

About Next2Friends

Next2Friends will be combining many aspects of Social Networking and Mobile Technology to bring it’s users an exciting new experience never seen before. Initially the service will be free to all users and Next2Friends will not be profiting off of your work. Later, if you opt in, Next2Friends will share advertising revenue with you, the content provider, in a paid-for-play type structure. That’s way more than YouTube can say! So your video has had over a million views? That will actually mean something to you and put money in your pocket on Next2Friends! Sound cool? Well this only represents 30% of the total package that Next2Friends will offer. Next2Friends will be much much more!

Also, if you get in now, you could be featured on the Next2Friends front page! And yet another advantage to providing us with your video content is that you will get your preferred user name and your very own Video Channel!

So you’ve got something to share with the world? Do it on Next2Friends and be part of the revolution! Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. You’re already lost in the sea of Youtube and Myspace, why not stand out to thousands of people for free? I look forward to talking to you about being a contributing member!

Hans Erik
Content Marketing Director
Hans@Next2Friends.com
www.Next2Friends.com

With the recent announcement from Apple regarding the release of an SDK for the IPhone that doesn’t limit us to Web Apps; Next2Friends plans for full support! This is quite exciting news, targeting some of the most advanced devices is quite natural for Next2Friends. All along we felt that one would be missing in the bunch. That is until the above announcement. So, the SDK comes out Feb 2008, we are hoping to be ready with Next2Friends support by early April. Be ready… The hottest services, for the hottest devices! If you haven’t pre-registered for our monthly Ipod touch giveaway and quarterly Dell laptop giveaway. (Simple by pre-registering for free) Get over there now.

Next2Friends

In an effort to drive pre-registration Next2Friends runs two simultaneous drawings. Each month we give away an Ipod Touch and every quarter a Dell laptop. All you have to do is go to the Next2Friends site and pre-register for free. In fact, Next2Friends will enter your name in to the drawings as many times as friends you refer. Quite the deal!