July 2010
1 post
Tip: Getting started
Ok so you’ve downloaded Friends Around and are all set; your pictures uploaded to your profile and your privacy is set to your personal options.
All of the sudden you have five people requesting to be your friend, some are trying to chat with you, and for sure you’ve received some winks. Great way to meet new people isn’t it? But, how do you find your real friends?
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June 2010
2 posts
New gifts available!
Get your FAMEs ready because there’s something new in our gift store today!
There’s much more so go now and see what other gifts we have available. Don’t have FAMEs left? Start earning them by sharing and logging in everyday.
Let us know if you have any particular gift ideas you wish to see on the store. Looking forward to read your suggestions!
Happy Birthday!
We are celebrating 2 birthdays today at the office. Egor and Luciano are 1 year older today!
I wonder how many gifts they’ll be getting today from the Friends Around gift store!
May 2010
5 posts
New update ready!
Lots of cool new things to announce for our latest update which is available now!
Did you install it already? Join the more than 150,000 users that have downloaded already around the world! HERE’S WHAT’S NEW:
Find your Facebook and Twitter friends!
Check in to your favorite places around using foursquare!
Optimized map usage: load more button, group people, loading people as you...
We're part of Tech Crunch Disrupt!
Next week we’re going to NYC to attend TechCrunch Disrupt. This event is organized by TechCrunch and is hosting a very interesting list of speakers, see here.
Topics discussed will take a look at “societal changes in how we consume and share information, and why.” The 3 day conference will focus on how these changes are platform development and business strategy in media,...
Friends Around + iPad
Our iPad app has been holding steady in the Top iTunes charts for Social Networking (free iPad Apps).
Its neat interface works really nicely with the iPad and you can enjoy features like group chat, view nearby users, send gifts, see who visits your profile (picture above) and more. Try it out and send us a note. We can’t wait to hear what you think!
Load more!
Here’s a cool tip for when you want to see more people on the map on Nearby.
Go to Nearby, tap on List view. Scroll down and tap on More. This will load 30 people at a time. It looks like this…
You will start loading the people around you first, so it always depends on where you are at the time.
You want to see more tips? Go watch our short videos here.
Sharing is...
…profitable!
Every time you share your accomplishments on Facebook or Twitter you get 20 Fames! You can earn a total of 200 Fames daily just by doing this! Brilliant.
Here’s a list of other ways you can earn these most coveted Fames:
Sharing on Facebook: 20 Fames Sharing on Twitter: 20 Fames Daily Login: 10 Fames Receive a SuperStar rating: 10 Fames
April 2010
10 posts
Presenting at Refresh Miami
We’re excited to be presenting at Refresh Miami tomorrow and we’ll be covering the topic: iPad in a week. We’ll be sharing our experience of developing for iPad.
We’re looking forward to having great conversations with our fellow South Florida techies! And pictures will be posted on Friday…stay tuned.
Buy gifts with your FAMES
Accumulating FAMES, our virtual currency, not only gets you ranked higher on the Top Users list, they also let you buy gifts from our store! You earn FAMES through a variety of different actions like:
-login in everyday -sharing with Facebook and Twitter -receiving a SuperStar rating on your pics: the highest rating possible
Earn your FAMES, get ultimate buying power and send gifts to your...
Find people around you!
The Nearby feature is pretty cool because you can find anyone that’s around you on a map.
I can zoom in and talk to this friend if I tap on his little icon.
That takes me to his profile, where I can do any sort of interaction including adding him to a group chat I have going on presently or chat with him privately. (*This is a new thing on the latest update - so remember to upgrade...
New version 1.1.3 now available
Wow! What a crazy past couple of weeks it has been at Zila Networks with FriendsAround.Me going live on April 9 and almost instantly topping the charts worldwide!
We have surpassed our expectations with a huge number of registered users, a great word of mouth rush on Twitter, and many more things are in the works already that will definitely will attract some more! Stay tuned for that.
For...
Usage after only 2 hours!
We’ve gotten a really good download and spread across the US in just 2 hours from going live on iTunes!
We are live on iTunes!
We’re excited to let you know that you can now download Friend Around Me for iPhone and iPod Touch on the iTunes App Store!
It’s a FREE download! Just use your Twitter or Facebook accounts to log in and get started now. We hope to see you in there soon!
New York Times coverage!
New York Times tech writer Roy Furchgott got a chance to test our app last week and here are his initial thoughts on a post called “App Mashes Up Social Network Functions”.
We are excited that Roy got a chance to play around with it before it’s even out to the public, and looking forward to getting users to interact with it some time soon!
We are sure users will benefit...
iPad version has been approved!
We are extremely excited to let you know that the iPad version of our app has been approved by Apple today.
Go download it on iTunes now!
March 2010
2 posts
We have submitted to Apple for review!
Great news! We submitted the app to Apple very early Friday morning and late Friday evening we submitted the app version for the iPad too!
They are both now currently under review now. We hope to have news for you as soon as we get approved!
Here’s a picture of our Miami team at 2am right after we submitted.
Keep visiting our homepage too and check out the status.
iPad anyone?
We’re giving away an iPad to the person that can help us come up with a company slogan.
Follow @friendsaround on Twitter
Visit our website & learn more about the Friends Around Me App
Submit your slogan idea by tweeting this: My slogan for the #FriendsAroundMe iPad give away contesthttp://ow.ly/1dhJE is: { Replace This With Your Slogan }
Check out the details here.
February 2010
3 posts
Location sharing and why it means something now.
Nowadays we find it easier and easier to share everything about ourselves online. I remember when I first started using Twitter, it asked “What are you thinking?”. My response was “Why do you want to know?” But I quickly caught on and liked the idea of sharing and reading other people’s thoughts.
(Friends Around Me app screen shot)
Today we are taking it a step further. With all the “check...
Website is up!
It’s been busy here at Zila Networks while we are preparing for the launch of the application. Lot’s of things getting done! Today our new website is up and we are extremely happy to share it with you!
http://www.friendsaround.me
What do you think? Send us your comments. You can also talk to Egor (co-founder) directly via Twitter: @elavrov
Déjà vu?
If you search the Internet today trying to find an experienced iPhone developer you are going to be surprised. There are close to none that are available. It may sound ridiculous: there are almost 200,000 apps in the Apple iTunes App Store. Who made them all? Well, of course: developers. The problem is they are mostly already hired.
It reminds me of the 90s when the Internet was becoming popular...
December 2009
1 post
How will you communicate in 2010?
How will Friends Around Me change the way you communicate?
The Huffington Post recently wrote that one of the things that became obsolete this decade is calling.
What has replaced calling? Texting. It’s true, now I mostly text my friends. And sure, if I have them on a social network I send them messages through there as well. But I still find that texting is a quicker way to get in touch with...