9th July, 2008
Orange Launches New Service for mobile social networking
MySpace completes launch offering, joining Facebook, Pikeo, Bebo, Flirtomatic
and others
New service allows customers to stay connected to all their online communities
through a single, easy to use, mobile interface
Today Orange announced that Europe’s leading social network sites will be brought
together within Orange World. The new service combines access to the sites’ popular functions into a single
destination. The news follows the completion of partnership agreements with MySpace,
Facebook and Bebo whose members will be able to view their profile updates – emails, comments
from friends, recently uploaded pictures - alongside others from Skyrock , Pikeo,
Flirtomatic , DailyMotion and Meetic .
The service, which lets users keep in touch with their friends wherever they
are, has launched in France and will follow soon in the UK, Switzerland, Spain
and Portugal. It works by displaying the most popular functions of multiple social networks
side by side these so that they can be accessed far more simply with one click. Consumers will now be able to receive
and send messages, upload photos and check
status updates without having to browse individual URLs or log into separate sites. Orange plans to evolve the service
from Orange World to an embedded application,
accessible from the home screen of Orange Signature phones. The ultimate goal
is to bring these communities together across all three screens: mobile, PC and
TV.
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