Congratulations WidSets on Reaching 1 Million + Users!

Wow, its been since October of 2006 since WidSets first went public and a few days ago they celebrated their 1 Million user mark.  Congrats!!

"Having 1 million registered users in the mobile space is almost unheard of and WidSets has clearly set the benchmark for tools and distribution channels designed for content and media owners," said Ulla Särkikangas, Director, Consumer Internet Services, Nokia Emerging Business Unit.

When I first heard of WidSets from Charlie Schick's blog it took me a while to figure it out.  But then it caught on and became addictive. 

WidSets 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 has evolved its social networking service further and developed also new sharing features for Email and Private Chat. The comprehensive WidSets library currently has more than 1500 widgets. The widgets deliver an alert when someone has posted a comment to a blog, informs the user about a traffic jam, and makes it possible to play games and interact with individual web communities from the mobile phone.

 

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

Comments

[Marion Carroll]

Enjoyed your interview with Manna. I thougth he was going to go off on you because you were a couple of minutes late. Wow, he did seem really nervous! Must be from too many times hitting the mat. I'm not a big cell phone connoisseur but I hope I win one.

[Jody]

One thing is that your feed isn't complete any more. So now reading your blog in Widsets isn't good now because you only get to see the first paragraph or so and nothing else :-(.

Another thing I noticed last week is that your site has so many "extras" that it won't open in the S60 browser either. Just out of memory errors. So double :-( all round.

[Darla]

Hi Jody,
The feeds should be working correctly now. Sorry about that. Hmmm what device are you using to view the site?

[Ghazi Ramadan]

Widgets are a good concept, and we have launched a similar product a while ago (http://www.myiota.co.uk) which brings internet browsing on the phone inline with SMS, and the application provides an access to a network of services which can be SMS or gprs. Although, we concentrate on Text Only, the appeal and the consumer uptake is very impressive.

You can download the application from your mobile by typing the following URL http://myiota.co.uk/m

Thanks
Ghazi Ramadan
iOTA Sphere
http://www.iotasphere.com