There are plenty of ways to upload photos and other content from your phone to the Web. But the premise behind Jibe Mobile is simply to be able to use your phone to share social media already on the Web with your friends, whether they are online or out with their phones. The service is launching today in private beta. We have invites for the first 300 people to sign up here.
Jibe is a Website, a mobile app, and a Facebook app. It lets you import your Facebook friends as contacts, or invite your own. Once you download Jibe’s mobile app to any Java phone (including ones from Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson), you can text chat with any contact. I tested it on my Blackberry curve and it worked without a hitch.
In addition to the basic IM functionality, Jibe lets you send outs “shouts” (little emoticon-like avatars who say things like “What up Dude?”), share photos from Flickr, videos from YouTube, or stories from RSS news feeds. The shouts come out as both text messages and short audio messages through your phone’s speaker.
CEO and founder Amir Sarhangi says:
We are not a social network. We are really the glue in the middle.
Jibe wants to make it easy to socialize with friends around social media from your phone. For instance, you can browse channels of popular YouTube videos, Flickr photos, or top Yahoo News feeds, all from within the mobile app. You can also search for specific Flickr images or YouTube videos without leaving the app. Once you find something you want to share, you can forward it to a contact with a few clicks.
Jibe will soon add support for more social networks beyond Facebook, such as Bebo and MySpace. And will also support more social media services, such as PhotoBucket. What Jibe doesn’t let you do just yet is upload your own photos or videos from your mobile phone to your favorite social network or social media Website. Other than that, it is a solid app that is off to a good start.
The company was founded in December 2005, and raised $800,000 in angel money last December.
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Hmm, the download link in the received text message doesn’t appear to be working. Interesting proposition though.
Thanks, I’ve got one of those 300 invites. I’ll try it out.
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Thanks for the invite. Jibe seems awesome..
Jibe looks cool. Simple and easy to use.
> It lets you import your Facebook friends as contacts
I don’t actually see this functionality. Am I missing something? It looks like the standard invite-(ie auto-mail)-up-to-20-of-your-facebook-friends deal.
> I don’t actually see this functionality. Am I missing something? It looks like the standard invite-(ie auto-mail)-up-to-20-of-your-facebook-friends deal.
Grewt, when you register on jibe, the last step allows you to link your friends - then they are automatically available on your mobile contact list
The post title made me think that I would be able to chat with ALL my facebook friends using facebook chat, as opposed to requiring me to invite my facebook friends to add the Jibe facebook app in order to chat.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I’m not too inclined to bother my facebook friends with a mass/spam invite to add the Jibe app to their facebook accounts.
Sucks you can’t remove your number once you sing up and realize you have no use for this service.
Big Dave - we would be glad to remove you from our systems, please send an email to support@jibemobile.com with your information.
Great! More convergence between Web and Mobile!
I love the idea that more and more startups are focusing on building web apps and a business around the mobile platform. But I personally feel that the small screen size is still a hindrance to make the web experience on mobile a significant one.
Don’t get me wrong, I can see there are many advantages such as the mobility, the intimacy of the platform with the user and etc. But if nobody can solve the issue of the screen size (even the iPhone screen size is still a very choice-less compromise).. then I suppose it will just remain a big question mark for most people to heavily adopt the usage.
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I just downloaded jibe. This app is great! Invited my friends and I just shared a “will it blend” video! Going to play with it more, so far so good!
I agree with Darren Lee and think that it is a creative idea to focus on building web and social networking applications that are designed for mobiles. Jive seems to be an easy and convenient way to socialize and share media! Great news!
The concept is there…or at least heading in the right direction. I’m looking forward to what the “social cell” will become in the next few years.
Support for Nokia E50, but not E51?! *FAIL*
Would be great with a Gmail friend import feature too.
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