When we came across contact management and synchronization service Soocial earlier this year, we said it made Plaxo look lame. The Holland-based startup is waving the private beta phase goodbye later today and is switching to public beta mode, which means you won’t have to wait anymore if you wish to try out the service.
In essence, Soocial enables you to sync contacts (and contacts only) between computers, over 400 types of mobile phones and web applications like Gmail and Highrise. Soocial also provide tools to manage these contacts, backups, and keeps your current address book in sync and up to date with all your devices. Up until now, the service only supported the Mac OS X Address Book client.
Later today, at the Under the Radar conference in San Francisco, Soocial will announce support for Outlook and Blackberry, which will evidently make the service far more appealing to business users. They will have to be patient, though, as the release of the Blackberry client is planned for the coming weeks, while the Outlook version is considered an alpha release.
CEO Stefan Fountain says Soocial aims to become “the address book for the internet-as-an-operating-system”. He added that future plans for Soocial include widening their platform support to popular services like Windows Live, Yahoo Mail, LinkedIn and devices like the iPhone.
If you want to find out more, check out this video of Fountain’s presentation at FOWA London, recorded last month.
Soocial is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and has raised 300,000 Euros from angel investors. The company was founded in November, 2006 by Stefan Fountain and Daniel Spronk.
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Soocials CEO Stefan Fountain will be presenting live at Under the Radar @ the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View in about 1 hour.
Stream is here: http://www.undertheradarblog.com/
(Galileo i think)
Had some problems earlier but they seem solved right now. Congratulations on this great app. Just put in Highrise sync, waiting for activation at the moment.
Keep it going guys!
lots of sync web sites already exist, why this one is special?
Reminds me a bit of Vringo for Facebook…syncs the profile pic to the phone number.
I tried it out and had lots of problems getting it to work - it ended up introducing a fair number of duplicate entries and generally fouling up my address book. The initial sync also took a long time.
That being said, the company was very responsive and did their best to address the issues I experienced. I’d try it again once they work out the kinks.
They aren’t ready to go to public beta yet!
I’ve had lots of problems with them deleting contacts thinking they were duplicates. Worse yet, when I re-enter all that contact info, it just deletes it again on the next sync.
Epic, John? Epic fail, indeed.
Ok, I was way too harsh.
Please disregard that last line.
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They really a strange sense of humor, but there videos are really a joy to watch! I didn’t try soocial yet because they dont sync my calendars (yet?). http://fruux.com is a nice mac-to-mac sync alternative, but currently there is no web application - soocial and fruux should join forces!
hey Pat, sorry to hear that. Could you e-mail met at support at soocial dot com, I’d like to see what was happening there. Your problem sounds a bit extreme, and definitely not the experience we’re hearing out there or experiencing ourselves.
That said we’re here to help and sometimes stuff does happen and we work diligently to fix that so it never happens again.
Hope we can make it up to ya!
I must add that I have had problems before, and they’ve all been resolved quickly, so big bonus points to the support team.
I’m already using the web site http://fonet.mobi to sync my contacts from my outlook. I’m also using to sync my bookmarks
hi
nice to see things coming along for you guys…
Lou
Nexthaus - Mobile Sync Solutions
http://nexthaus.com
This is Epic!
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Very interesting social media site.
There are so many that sometimes you may loose yourself in them:)
Anyway I will try it preferences and maybe it will be useful for my Money Makers Portal Blog.
http://www.moneymakersportal.com/blog/