Rating: BuddyMob is an “all-in-one social” network designed exclusively for Android
Kiboo is a company that loves it’s mobile social networks. It’s made quite a few by now. The most succesful is Moblr, but it has got others that operate in more niche markets. Today it has moved its Android offering, BuddyMob into the private beta test stage.
What does BuddyMob do?
Everything, if Kiboo is to be believed. BuddyMob’s been designed to really take advantage of the open-source philosophy and strong software development kit for Android. Kiboo claims it will work with any other software designed for Android, so it can interface with the mobile camera for geo-tagging services, or ping your friends with location-based services. It offers traditional MoSo services like free SMS and multimedia sharing. It will function across multiple IM services, allow micro-blogging, and post or stream content to other social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Presumably it will also massage your feet and make the tea.
And perhaps most importantly, BuddyMob is ad-funded, and therefore free to use.
From the release:
‘Android’s open system has opened up a wealth of opportunities for developers,’ said Kiboo CEO and co-Founder Christophe Hocquet. ‘The combination of positioning with content sharing and chat on a single mobile application creates a whole new communication medium. Add to this the ability to stay up to date with friends’ updates whichever network they’re using and BuddyMob is able to deliver friends at your fingertips.’
What we think?
What can I say? This sounds great, and the website is sexy as hell. It makes me wish I had an Android phone so I could get in on this beta and see if it lives up to all the promises. I’ll be interested to see if this product will migrate to other devices if it does well enough, or if it’s so integrated into an open-source market that it won’t be able to make the leap to a proprietary system.
