WidSets Introduces Jaiku Widget
Espoo, Finland - WidSets today announced the launch of a Jaiku widget that extends the experience of Jaiku (www.jaiku.com), the leading conversational microblogging community, to the mobile phones.
Enabling users to post thoughts, Jaikus, on what they're doing, how they're feeling, or where they're going right now, Jaiku community members can also converse in real-time by reacting to individual posts, share lifestream information like photos, personal blog entries at one location and establish a central presence for social networking. Combined together, these messages, presence sharing, and feeds create a holistic lifestream of activities.
"Our Jaiku widget brings the microblogging experience straight to the mobile phone, enabling community members to stay connected 24/7," said Ulla Särkikangas, Director, Consumer Internet Services, Nokia Emerging Business Unit.
"Jaiku was made for mobile users and we're delighted that WidSets is enabling a living, growing conversation among people around the world through the use of the Jaiku widget," added Jyri Engeström, Jaiku co-founder.
WidSets, which has more than 1 million registered users, is a handset manufacturer-independent service that brings the best bits of the Internet, such as communities, news, blogs, reviews, and weather reports straight to the mobile phone. It uses mini-applications called widgets to deliver up to date Internet content to mobile phones and enables the user to create their own widgets.
WidSets works on a wide variety of mobile phone brands and is compatible on more than 300 mobile devices. User can easily download WidSets at www.widsets.com or on mobile at get.widsets.com. WidSets was born out of Nokia Emerging Business Unit and represents a first step in Nokia's vision of mobilising the Internet.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through these devices. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks. www.nokia.com
About WidSets
WidSets is a popular consumer Internet service allowing people to create, publish, enjoy and share their favorite internet content on their mobile phones. Consumers can personalize their internet experience on their mobile by selecting the widgets they want. WidSets is a mobile phone agnostic service working with most brands and models. WidSets represents a first step in mobilizing the Internet vision of Nokia and was launched in October 2006. www.widsets.com
About Jaiku
Based in Helsinki, Finland, Jaiku is the leading conversational microblogging platform that enables users to post thoughts and ideas from web and mobile applications, and comment on posts of friends and family. The free service offers the use of personality icons, the ability to share your lifestream (webfeeds from FlickR, Del.icio.us, Google, Last FM and your personal and business blogs), and connectivity 24/7 from mobile and handheld devices. For more information visit www. Jaiku.com.
Media enquiries:
Nokia Emerging Business Unit
Communications
Tel. +358 7180 45792
Nokia
Communications
Tel. +358 7180 34900
E-mail: press.office@nokia.com
www.nokia.com
JaikuNeil Vineberg
Vineberg CommunicationsNews (at) VinebergCommunications.com
Tel. +1631-871-0044
Enabling users to post thoughts, Jaikus, on what they're doing, how they're feeling, or where they're going right now, Jaiku community members can also converse in real-time by reacting to individual posts, share lifestream information like photos, personal blog entries at one location and establish a central presence for social networking. Combined together, these messages, presence sharing, and feeds create a holistic lifestream of activities.
"Our Jaiku widget brings the microblogging experience straight to the mobile phone, enabling community members to stay connected 24/7," said Ulla Särkikangas, Director, Consumer Internet Services, Nokia Emerging Business Unit.
"Jaiku was made for mobile users and we're delighted that WidSets is enabling a living, growing conversation among people around the world through the use of the Jaiku widget," added Jyri Engeström, Jaiku co-founder.
WidSets, which has more than 1 million registered users, is a handset manufacturer-independent service that brings the best bits of the Internet, such as communities, news, blogs, reviews, and weather reports straight to the mobile phone. It uses mini-applications called widgets to deliver up to date Internet content to mobile phones and enables the user to create their own widgets.
WidSets works on a wide variety of mobile phone brands and is compatible on more than 300 mobile devices. User can easily download WidSets at www.widsets.com or on mobile at get.widsets.com. WidSets was born out of Nokia Emerging Business Unit and represents a first step in Nokia's vision of mobilising the Internet.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through these devices. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks. www.nokia.com
About WidSets
WidSets is a popular consumer Internet service allowing people to create, publish, enjoy and share their favorite internet content on their mobile phones. Consumers can personalize their internet experience on their mobile by selecting the widgets they want. WidSets is a mobile phone agnostic service working with most brands and models. WidSets represents a first step in mobilizing the Internet vision of Nokia and was launched in October 2006. www.widsets.com
About Jaiku
Based in Helsinki, Finland, Jaiku is the leading conversational microblogging platform that enables users to post thoughts and ideas from web and mobile applications, and comment on posts of friends and family. The free service offers the use of personality icons, the ability to share your lifestream (webfeeds from FlickR, Del.icio.us, Google, Last FM and your personal and business blogs), and connectivity 24/7 from mobile and handheld devices. For more information visit www. Jaiku.com.
Media enquiries:
Nokia Emerging Business Unit
Communications
Tel. +358 7180 45792
Nokia
Communications
Tel. +358 7180 34900
E-mail: press.office@nokia.com
www.nokia.com
JaikuNeil Vineberg
Vineberg CommunicationsNews (at) VinebergCommunications.com
Tel. +1631-871-0044
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