DEMOfall: The Phone as Message Center
Cell phone collaboration for friends.
Initial Reaction: The presentation just didn't grab me so I can't really assess it.
Product called Joopz. Group chat. PC-SMS communications. Scheduled SMS. Their guy emphasized the difficulty in using SMS, but says that being able to send messages from the Joopz web site addresses it.
Initial Reaction: I know a lot of people do a lot of text messaging with their phones and likely would find some of these tools useful, but I use the feature only rarely and am not expert enough to fairly assess the prospects here.
System to send voice messages from cell phone to cell phone.
Initial Reaction: Doesn't this already exist and isn't it called voice mail?
Email on your cell phone for the masses. The idea is that since most folks don't have Blackerries, Treos, etc., this tool enables people with standard cell phones to receive email. Agnostic as to the user's phone.
[Disclosure: The folks at Borealis Ventures are good friends and they have invested in Flurry. However, I have no financial interest in the company nor do I have any inside information about the company.]
Initial Reaction: I'll have to ask my wife to check it out on her phone. She might actually like this one. They appear to be still working on a business model, however.
Tags: DEMOfall, DEMO, Joopz, 3Jam, MobileSphere, Pinger, Flurry, Borealis Ventures
3Jam - looks like a feature more then a product.
MobileSphere - SMS is being replaced by IM.
Pinger - Voice is nothing but a 25kb data service.
Flurry - Movamail, and others are ahead. Better figure out the model.
Posted by: JT | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 04:38 AM