With Next2Friends service, using the mobile phone having camera, you can broadcast your experience anywhere in the realtime. So to speak, Next2Friends is multimedia communication platform in the mobile environment. Here are some descriptions from Next2Freinds web site.
Next2Friends is a Communications Platform that opens up a whole new world of interaction between people, their friends and family and others. One part intelligent Social Networking, one part breakthrough Mobile Technology, Next2Friends can be used for many things like keeping in touch with friends, sharing moments with others in real time, and meeting new people with similar interests. So while Next2Friends is a Social Networking website, it also interacts with most current Mobile Technology to create a level of communication and interaction never seen before.
You can do all the things that you’d expect from a Social Networking site like setting up a profile, uploading pictures and searching for and connecting with friends. But at the heart of Next2Friends are 6 new revolutionary services that run on and interact with your Mobile Device. They are:
- Live Streaming Video
With Next2friends Live Streaming Video, you can broadcast live events from any capable mobile device or webcam to your family and friends wherever they are in the world! They can watch any event in real-time with you, as it happens!
You set up a profile detailing all your likes, your dislikes, your quirks and everything that makes you who you are. Then, if you load Next2Friends onto your mobile device and turn on Proximity Services, Next2Friends will look for other users you come into close proximity with that share your likes, dislikes, and yes, even your quirks. Finally, when you sign into your account you’ll receive notification of all the people you passed throughout the day who you have something in common with. And the rest is up to you!- Ask-A-Friend
Ask-A-Friend is a dynamic new way to get instant feedback from all your friends, or if you choose, the entire Next2Friends community. It works like this: You snap photos to create an instant opinion poll to send to whomever you choose for a vote. Your friends will receive notification via their mobile device or their Next2Friends profile that an opinion poll has been created. They choose their favorites among the pictures and the results are then sent directly back to you. Ask-A-Friend gives you real time results when you need them the most; in the real world!- Video Messaging
Video Messaging allows users to record a video message from any capable mobile device or standard webcam and send it to their friends or contacts. In its most basic form, it is an interactively media-rich email service via the Next2Friends site.- Snap Up or SUP
Snap Up, or SUP, stands for Snap and Upload. It is a simple way to snap and upload photos to your Next2Friends profile. Want to create a live photo gallery from an event for your friends to view? Or maybe you want to save space on your mobile device’s hard drive. Either way, Next2Friends allows you to just snap photos and upload them to your profile for later viewing and editing.
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