Released on: December 12, 2007, 12:09 pm

Press Release Author: Hans Erik / Next2Friends

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Next2Friends has announced that it has successfully completed
development of its mobile technology driven social networking site and is ready to
launch the beta version of its services commencing Christmas Eve, 2007.

Press Release Body: Next2Friends has announced that it has successfully completed
development of its mobile technology driven social networking site and is ready to
launch the beta version of its services commencing Christmas Eve, 2007. Beta will
run to the end of March 2008 when the site will then enter into full general
release. The service will initially focus on 5 different but related offerings:

- Proximity Services
- Video Messaging
- Ask-a-Friend
- Live Video Streaming from any capable mobile device or webcam
- Online Video Editing

The Proximity Service is designed to automate the otherwise tedious task of online
person to person network building by bridging the online "virtual world" and the
physical "real world" thereby providing the potential for actual interaction. The
service uses both Bluetooth and P2P WIFI enabled mobile devices to interact with a
user's online profile and record relative matches to other users they come into
close proximity with (within 300 metres). At next log on, users are then presented
with the profile matches they collected throughout the day. Businesses will also be
able to use Proximity Services for demographic/ rules based advertising, allowing
potential customers to search for them according to their real-time location. As
well, Next2Friends' patent pending technology insures both anonymity and privacy via
a highly secure implementation methodology and exclusive encryption algorithms.

Video Messaging allows users to record a video message from any mobile device and or
standard webcam and send it to their friends or contacts. In its most basic form, it
is an interactively media rich email service via the Next2Friends site.

Ask-A-Friend is a rich media opinion polling service that enables users to take
images to be sent and received by their friends via their mobile devices or webcams
to create an immediate, real-time opinion poll. Offered in both a private and public
forum, users can limit engagement to an immediate group of friends or make it
publicly available to receive responses timed for their needs.

The Live Video Streaming service enables users to create and broadcast live video
from any mobile device and or webcam to multiple end users. Video will be streamed
through the Next2Friends website where users can view events as they happen.
Furthermore, if multiple users are at the same event and broadcast on the same
"channel", end users will be able to choose between the different views and angles
being broadcast. All broadcasts are saved within the users profile for later viewing
or editing.

The further implementation of Live Video Streaming is the Online Video Editing
service which will enable users to edit the incoming video in real time using
Next2Friends' online video editing tools. Users can easily mix and match content
from video collections to produce a custom video production.

Next2Friends is a UK Limited Company with offices in the UK and the USA.



Web Site: http://www.next2friends.com

Contact Details: Andrew Doyle, COO - Next2Friends
32 Deeley Close
Nottingham, Watnall, UK
Tel: +44 7788 924469
Email: Andrew@Next2Friends.com