FunMail a Hit at SXSW!
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Posted on March 22, 2010 at 1:28:01 PM
FunMail a Hit at SXSW!
New Visual Messaging Service tickles the fancy of Austin's Tweeters and Texters alike.
PLEASANTON, Calif., March 22 -- Every year Austin, Texas turns into a melting pot of people and technology for a week in March as SXSW comes to town. With over 100 businesses on display at the interactive tradeshow, there are only a few products that standout and steal the show. This year, FunMail was one of them.
FunMail is already a hit application on the iPhone that turns any text message into an MMS, and last week FunMobility unveiled FunTweet at the SXSW show, available to the public at http://www.funtweet.it.
"FunTweet.it brings Twitter into a new visual dimension by making it possible to instantly add fun, relevant visuals to tweets from FunMail's huge visual database. Funtweet.it also turns anybody into a Twitter mash-up artist, giving people the power to visualize any tweet and then re-tweet it or share via Facebook," FunMobility CEO Adam Lavine told ABCNews.com.
FunMail caught the eye of many news organizations large and small with the Media Brain that instantly picks from a library of over 25,000 images to give users a relevant image to any text message or Tweet.
With releases planned in the next two months that will make the application available for both the Palm Pre and Blackberry, FunMail is sure to be in the news and on your phones.
A partial roundup of the coverage follows:
ABC News
http://blogs.abcnews.com/aheadofthecurve/2010/03/funmail-
illustrate-your-tweets-texts.html
CNN
http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/14/sxsw-microsoft-surface-
flavors-me-funmail-and-huddlehub/
Tech Crunch
http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/12/funmails-funtweet-visualizes-
twitter-streams-with-pretty-pictures/
DailyFinance
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/media/scenes-from-the-
geekfest-at-sxsw-interactive/19398388/
KillerStartups
http://www.killerstartups.com/Comm/funmail-com-a-visual-
dimension-to-emails
Venture Beat
http://digital.venturebeat.com/2010/03/12/funmobility-funtweet/
Into Mobile
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/03/13/funtweet-puts-a-visual-
spin-on-your-tweet.html
About FunMobility, Inc.
Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, FunMobility is one of America's most successful mobile application companies, delivering unique, integrated entertainment experiences through best-in-class mobile applications and content services. FunMobility applications enable consumers to connect and express themselves through multimedia messages, photos, videos, music, graphics and slideshows. FunMobility manages services for all North American carriers including Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T Wireless and Metro PCS, as well as direct to consumers through the iTunes App Store, Google's Android Marketplace, RIM's Blackberry App World and their consumer-facing sites http://www.funmail.com and http://www.funtweet.it.
For press inquiries please contact Ryan Leach, FunMobility Director of Marketing, rleach at funmobility.com.
Source: FunMobility, Inc.
CONTACT: Ryan Leach, FunMobility Director of Marketing, +1-925-598-9700,
ext. 271, rleach at funmobility.com
Web Site: http://www.funtweet.it/
New Visual Messaging Service tickles the fancy of Austin's Tweeters and Texters alike.
PLEASANTON, Calif., March 22 -- Every year Austin, Texas turns into a melting pot of people and technology for a week in March as SXSW comes to town. With over 100 businesses on display at the interactive tradeshow, there are only a few products that standout and steal the show. This year, FunMail was one of them.
FunMail is already a hit application on the iPhone that turns any text message into an MMS, and last week FunMobility unveiled FunTweet at the SXSW show, available to the public at http://www.funtweet.it.
"FunTweet.it brings Twitter into a new visual dimension by making it possible to instantly add fun, relevant visuals to tweets from FunMail's huge visual database. Funtweet.it also turns anybody into a Twitter mash-up artist, giving people the power to visualize any tweet and then re-tweet it or share via Facebook," FunMobility CEO Adam Lavine told ABCNews.com.
FunMail caught the eye of many news organizations large and small with the Media Brain that instantly picks from a library of over 25,000 images to give users a relevant image to any text message or Tweet.
With releases planned in the next two months that will make the application available for both the Palm Pre and Blackberry, FunMail is sure to be in the news and on your phones.
A partial roundup of the coverage follows:
ABC News
http://blogs.abcnews.com/aheadofthecurve/2010/03/funmail-
illustrate-your-tweets-texts.html
CNN
http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/14/sxsw-microsoft-surface-
flavors-me-funmail-and-huddlehub/
Tech Crunch
http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/12/funmails-funtweet-visualizes-
twitter-streams-with-pretty-pictures/
DailyFinance
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/media/scenes-from-the-
geekfest-at-sxsw-interactive/19398388/
KillerStartups
http://www.killerstartups.com/Comm/funmail-com-a-visual-
dimension-to-emails
Venture Beat
http://digital.venturebeat.com/2010/03/12/funmobility-funtweet/
Into Mobile
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/03/13/funtweet-puts-a-visual-
spin-on-your-tweet.html
About FunMobility, Inc.
Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, FunMobility is one of America's most successful mobile application companies, delivering unique, integrated entertainment experiences through best-in-class mobile applications and content services. FunMobility applications enable consumers to connect and express themselves through multimedia messages, photos, videos, music, graphics and slideshows. FunMobility manages services for all North American carriers including Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T Wireless and Metro PCS, as well as direct to consumers through the iTunes App Store, Google's Android Marketplace, RIM's Blackberry App World and their consumer-facing sites http://www.funmail.com and http://www.funtweet.it.
For press inquiries please contact Ryan Leach, FunMobility Director of Marketing, rleach at funmobility.com.
Source: FunMobility, Inc.
CONTACT: Ryan Leach, FunMobility Director of Marketing, +1-925-598-9700,
ext. 271, rleach at funmobility.com
Web Site: http://www.funtweet.it/