Just a few loose ends to tie up, and we’ll be inviting users to use Soocial! After 8 months of coding, debugging, designing, syncing, more coding and more debugging we’re excited to be close to inviting our alpha testers to come and crash our beloved service.
As you are able to read in this blog, Soocial’s purpose is to provide you with hassle free contact management. Which means we supply software that works behind the scenes, making sure your contacts are where you want them. Our plan is to have your phone(s), desktop(s), laptop(s) and maybe your fridge, all harmoniously using the same contacts.
What we’ve created so far is: ….
Just a few loose ends to tie up, and we’ll be inviting users to use Soocial! After 8 months of coding, debugging, designing, syncing, more coding and more debugging we’re excited to be close to inviting our alpha testers to come and crash our beloved service.
As you are able to read in this blog, Soocial’s purpose is to provide you with hassle free contact management. Which means we supply software that works behind the scenes, making sure your contacts are where you want them. Our plan is to have your phone(s), desktop(s), laptop(s) and maybe your fridge, all harmoniously using the same contacts.
What we’ve created so far is: a webapp, a synchronization server and an easy setup tool for your phone. After signing up you can setup your phone, by having us send you a text message that pre-configures your phone to start using Soocial. All you do is pick a make and model then fill in your number. This allows you to sync your phone to Soocial, and you’ll promptly see your contacts appear in the webapp.
So basically the alpha syncs your phone with a webapp. You might say this functionality exists already in some services out there and this is true. However this is only the alpha, we have some really cool features up our sleeve. Plus we feel most products try to do too much, we want to focus only on contact management. A problem that will be hard enough to solve.
After we get the alpha running to our satisfaction we want to focus on creating contact sharing (buddy system), make an API public, create Mac OS X Address Book and Outlook plugins and some more cool stuff. Initially though it will be a limited feature set that we’re releasing as invite only alpha.
Another reason we’re releasing it initially only to a select group of alpha testers is that we’re not confident enough yet about reliability. Don’t be scared though if you receive an invite in the next few days (probably around the 12th of July). We’ll provide you with an opportunity to make a backup, don’t worry!
If you really want to be an alpha tester and you’ve not yet signed up feel free to drop me a line at stefan at soocial dot com.
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I signed up a few months ago, and I’ve been eagerly waiting for the launch.
I got your bulk-email today – so I assume I’m on your Alpha tester list.
Best of luck to you.
hey Paul, yeah everyone who got the e-mail will be getting an invite.
thanks and see ya next week
I can’t wait to test your app! I signed up a few months ago and I really think that every company that focus on web/mobile apps will come out as winners, since this is a pretty unexplored area that will grow and mature over the next 18-24 months.
From what you’re writing my favorites are the public API (always a smart move, very web2.0 and of course, look at facebook) and the buddy sharing.
On top of my wishlist I’d say a plugin on the webapp for LinkedIn and maybe other social networks. It would be really cool to somehow have that feature.
I’ve been using Widsets for a couple of months now, and it rocks. You can’t do that much with widsets that you can’t do with a mobile browser, but their java app rocks! I rather use their easy to use app than any mobile browser!
Anyway, Good luck!