Press Release
KADOINK PARTNERS WITH GLOBAL SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK BEBO FOR NEW OPEN APPLICATION PLATFORM
Kadoink's social network debut expands Bebo to the mobile space, enabling one-to-many communications and audio content sharing
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - December 19, 2007 – Kadoink, (www.kadoink.com), a web telephony service for social media that enables enhanced mass distribution of SMS, live and recorded voice messaging and audio file streams over the voice channel, unveiled its service offering today for Bebo's newly formed Open Application Platform. In an effort to give Beboers expanded options to stay closely connected with online friends anytime, anywhere the Kadoink platform will allow Bebo members to connect while they are away from their computer using its Music Call and Group BuzzText widgets that can easily be embedded into users' Bebo pages.
The Kadoink Music Call widget allows users to add musical flair to their Bebo page by sharing favorite music clips and recorded audio that can be easily sent to their friends' mobile phones via SMS text messages. Upon receiving a Music Call text, recipients can respond back with the command "play" to hear the music and personal greeting sent. Group BuzzText widgets allow Bebo members to create ad hoc texting groups quickly by letting them post fun questions or statements on their widget and get answers and comments texted back to them and their friends. The back-and-forth communication created by Group BuzzText makes for a fun and highly entertaining cross-platform group chat experience.
"With the launch of our highly developer-friendly open platform we are excited to have Kadoink on board to expand our members' online communications on the mobile platform," said Michael Birch, CEO and co-founder of Bebo. "Our Open Application approach will help enrich the overall Bebo experience while at the same time offering new ways for partners to become actively engaged with our audience."
Beboers embedding the Kadoink Music Call and BuzzText widgets into their personal page have the power to stay closely connected to online friends without ever having to divulge their real world identities. Kadoink's single hosted, software-based telephony platform and widget-based user interface transforms the mobile platform into a highly effective second hub for Bebo connectivity, seamlessly pushing online communications out to user's mobile phone. With Kadoink, Bebo members can now use their mobile phone to send and share SMS messages, group texts, and songs offline using their Bebo virtual identity.
"With so many connections and friendships being forged everyday on Bebo, we are excited to be able to provide the community with the tools necessary to integrate the most ubiquitous device they own, their mobile phone, with the strong online connections they have formed on Bebo," said Scott Cahill, CEO of Kadoink. "Our partnership with Bebo will allow its tremendous user base to now share audio content offline, communicate anonymously through their phones and create instant group texts and calls whenever and wherever they are."
Both Music Call and BuzzText widgets are available for immediate usage within Bebo's environment.
About Kadoink
Kadoink is a powerful web-telephony platform that seamlessly integrates SMS, IM and voice into a single hosted system compatible with any carrier or handset. Through its patented technology, Kadoink provides a suite of communication widgets and services such as phonecasting, audioblogging, microblogging, instant and large scale group communication (calling & texting) as well as mobile advertising (SMS and audio interstitials). Kadoink un-tethers users from their computers and instantly expands their current mobile phone capabilities, giving them a fun, always-present, easy-to-use tool to anonymously connect with an expansive network of family, friends and online communities without ever having to disclose their actual phone numbers. The company is based in San Francisco, California and was formed in September 2006. For more information and to sign up for Kadoink please visit www.kadoink.com.
About Bebo
Bebo is the world's leading global Social Media Network. Building on the notion of traditional social networking websites, Bebo combines community, self-expression and entertainment to enable its users to consume, create, discover and share professional and user-generated content through the Bebo website. Bebo has more than 40 million worldwide. Bebo also ranks as the UK's most engaging website with the most page views per usage day amongst the top 100 most popular sites *.
Bebo was founded in 2005 by Michael and Xochi Birch.
www.bebo.com
*Source: comScore World Metrix
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Kadoink Contacts:
Bret Ingraham
mPRm Public Relations for Kadoink
323.933.3399
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