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meebo ushers in next phase of IM with meebo Platform

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meebo.pngmeebo today announced the meebo Platform, a way to let developers integrate multi-user applications to connect users live with their friends. The first set of platform applications are web-based communication applications from Pudding Media, TalkShoe, TokBox and Ustream.TV, making voice chat, group voice calling, video and audio calling, and live broadcast available to meebo users.

meebo will also release additional third-party applications that will include social single-player and multi-player casual games, office and productivity applications, shopping and entertainment, and many, many more.

Developers can sign up for meebo Platform API access today at meebo.com/platform and participate in meebo’s public beta program. On November 27, the company will open its doors for an all-night dev camp for developers and potential partners. Additionally, meebo will offer virtual office hours to connect remote developers with the meebo team via video and audio calls.

Originally posted on October 30, 2007 @ 7:11 am

CircleUp launches new service on Facebook Platform

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circleup.jpgCircleUp, Inc., provider of social messaging for online and real world groups, announced that its flagship service is now a deeply integrated Facebook application that can be added to any Facebook user’s profile.

CircleUp is a free Internet messaging service that lets clubs, associations, Greeks, groups and teams ask questions and gather information, decisions, links, photos and feedback to get back a single, aggregated, visual result instead of a blizzard of messages. The CircleUp application for Facebook is designed specifically to enhance Facebook
groups and groups of friends, and it allows users to organize both offline and online activities.

With the addition of Facebook as a messaging and publishing channel, CircleUp is helping to define the new era of Email 2.0 where users can get the messages they need through the channels they want, and can manage the amount of information sent to any one channel to improve personal efficiency and reduce information overload.

Originally posted on September 28, 2007 @ 4:00 am

Verisign Mobile Banking Solution to include 2-way customer interaction platform from ClairMail

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verisign.jpgVeriSign, Inc. and ClairMail, Inc. announced that VeriSign will integrate ClairMail’s secure 2-way mobile customer interaction platform and applications with the VeriSign Mobile Banking Solution.

The agreement reflects VeriSign’s strategy to meet the changing needs of financial institutions by leveraging its global infrastructure for mobile messaging and content delivery. ClairMail’s scalable platform and breakthrough technology combined with VeriSign’s messaging and operations infrastructure will facilitate bringing this revolutionary solution to market rapidly, benefiting financial institutions of all sizes.

Incorporating ClairMail’s platform and applications enables the VeriSign Mobile Banking Solution to support the “triple play” of mobile interface types: messaging (SMS and email), mobile web and native client applications. Support of these interface types enables financial institutions to offer reliable, secure and easy-to-use mobile services to their customers on a wide range of handsets. The joint solution securely and cost-effectively integrates with a financial institution’s systems of record and enables a broad set of 2-way services on one platform with a single implementation, including account management, fraud mitigation, actionable alerts, mobile payments, marketing campaigns and no-hold customer service.

Originally posted on September 26, 2007 @ 7:50 am

CornerWorld launches platform for original people

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cornerworld.jpgCornerWorld, a groundbreaking business management and social networking platform that empowers independent content creators to share and profit from their skill, launches today.

“Original creators can use CornerWorld to easily distribute, promote and monetize their digital creations while controlling how their content is downloaded, sampled, and priced,” said President and Co-Founder of CornerWorld Scott Beck. “CornerWorld integrates Web 2.0’s most valuable collaboration and sharing features and provides a platform for everyone to participate, and profit.”

Blogging, sharing photo, audio and video, instant messaging, subject-driven forums, e-mail and contact unification, event invitations and classified advertising are combined in one simple interface. New technology also expands boundaries to enable live streaming and capture for global event broadcasts and/or live video chats.

Originally posted on September 24, 2007 @ 1:39 pm

SplashCast inks deal with Columbia Records; releases new features

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splashcast.jpgSplashCast today announced a new partnership with Columbia Records and three major new features to make the SplashCast experience more interactive. New York’s Coheed and Cambria is the first Columbia band to have an artist channel built by SplashCast.

Coheed and Cambria’s channel will also be the first to deploy two exciting new SplashCast features. FanCast, a new mobile publishing feature, will allow the band’s fans to upload photos, audio files and video from their mobile phones to the Coheed and Cambria channel. The second feature that will be deployed first on Columbia Records artist channels is live chat. Fans will be able to discuss whatever is on their minds in real time with the new in-player chat functionality.

Finally, SplashCast also announced today its immediate availability on all channels. SplashCast now offers the only media player online that allows quick, inline messaging to Twitter.

Originally posted on September 13, 2007 @ 2:30 pm