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 friends. Joke around, be sweet, remind them of something…have fun!
Here’s a gift I received today…
And then, when you go to your profile you see a list of gifts that you’ve received.
We are working hard on including more cool gifts which will be available in our upcoming update! Great plans are in the works for the gift store so stay tuned for more details.
In the meantime, let us know what you would like to see in the gift store! Any suggestions?
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 for this!)
It’s really easy and lot’s of fun. The best thing is that he will be getting a push notification - alert on his phone letting him know that I’m trying to communicate with him.
Remember you can always select your privacy! If you want to meet new people you can set your profile to be open. If you rather just talk to your friends and not have strangers contact you, you can select “Chat with Strangers” OFF. You’re in control.
Have you tried this out yet? Go ahead try it out and let us know what you think.
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 today we have a new version ready to update! Get it here on iTunes.
You’ll find:
-Tweaks to the UI
-Improvements on security
-Improvements with localization
-Fixes on Chat
-You can now block users that you don’t want to interact with
…and more.
Much of what our users requested and suggested was implemented in this version, so check it out and continue to let us know what you think!
Another version is already being worked on with more functionality and more of what our users want. So, stay active and get your voice heard!
If you haven’t downloaded, well, what are you waiting for? Go see why everyone is talking about it!
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We’ve gotten a really good download and spread across the US in just 2 hours from going 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 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 from easily connecting with people on Friends Around Me. As soon as I started interacting with our beta testing group, I couldn’t wait for it to be live on the App Store!
Thanks Roy for your time to check it out!
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!
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.
We’re giving away an iPad to the person that can help us come up with a company slogan.
Check out the details here.
