You’re already on MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter but a Perth entrepreneur hopes Australians have time for just one more web tool. Ian Rodwell founded Loop Mobile four years ago and for the past three years his mobile phone community site, Moko, has competed for attention with the likes of Facebook and MySpace.
The site is now expanding globally but Rodwell, 46, bristles at the suggestion that his creation is just another social network. He says that, while social networks are designed to help us keep in touch with our existing friends, Moko is all about making new connections.
Rather than being built for the desktop PC and then ported to web, it was made from the ground up to work predominantly on the mobile phone.Users post photos and videos to the site and chat rooms form around these contributions. There is also a chat lounge with various themed rooms including one running “quiz nights” and a “brain academy” where users can have “intelligent conversations”.
Moko can be accessed via the mobile portals of 3, Optus, Virgin and Telstra or by typing in the web address http://www.moko.mobi on either the phone’s browser or a regular PC. It costs $4 a month to use and, while talking to other users in chat rooms is free, sending a direct private message to another user costs 50 cents. Users also have to pay the standard MMS rate for uploading photos and videos from their mobiles.
Image via loopmobilelimited.com
cassy on September 25th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
First time I heard this one and I can’t wait to be a new member on this very soon.